Casual Midday Assistant

Wild Bank Community School, Stalybridge, Cheshire, SK15 2PG

8 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  10 June 2025

• Closing date

  20 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.60 per hour

Casual Midday Assistant job summary

Wild Bank Primary School – Casual MDA

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Casual Midday Assistant at Wild Bank Community School, Demesne Drive, Stalybridge, SK15 2PG.

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

Wild Bank is a one form entry school with 31 staff and 146 pupils aged between 3 and 11. Wild Bank’s school motto is ‘Working together we can achieve our best’.

To start As soon as possible

This is a casual contract, £12.60 per hour, (TMBC Grade A, Point 2)

As required during the hours of 12.00pm-1.30pm Monday to Friday.

The purpose of the role is to assist the children during lunchtime and to provide playground support and supervision, including basic medical care and reporting where necessary. You will be working both inside and outside the school building and you will need to be able to work independently using initiative and as part of a team, enjoy working with children and demonstrate organisation, flexibility, patience and understanding. You will need to be able to communicate clearly with, and relate positively to, all members of staff and pupils. Part of this role is to read with individual children for 30 minutes each day

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

• Applications close at 09:00 on Friday 20th June 2025 although the Trust reserve  the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process.
• Interviews will take place on Wednesday 25th June 2025
• Visits to the school are encouraged and warmly welcomed, please contact the school on 0161-3037404.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.

All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Wild Bank Community School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 183 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wild-bank-community-school

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