Families Centre Assistant

Wittering Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE8 6AF

8 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
20 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 October 2024

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £22,737.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE)

Families Centre Assistant job summary

Wittering Primary School is a friendly school serving the local community and surrounding areas. Attached to school is the Families Centre. We have worked incredibly hard to ensure the Families Centre continues to support the needs of our local community through receipt of a National Lottery Community Grant. Our Families Centre supports parents and children aged 0-5 through groups, Family Support Work at the request of parents for school aged children and is often a first port of call for information from all ages and needs within the local community.

We are seeking to appoint a key person who is able to provide support to the centre, providing a welcoming presence to any visitors to our school. As well as undertaking administration for the centre you will also assist in the provision of play sessions to the children.

The successful candidate will have:

Previous experience of working with pre-school children

The ability to prioritise your work dealing with conflicting demands, deadlines and interruptions

Have good communication, inter-personal skills and ICT skills

Able to embrace collaborative working and share good practice

Looking to combine good organisational skills and a sense of fun to their work

Ready to put the children at the heart of what we do

We can offer:

A supportive ethos

Brilliant children and adults to work alongside

A good awareness of work/life balance

A can do attitude with good support from parents, governors and other staff members

Good access from major routes (We are just off the A1 between Peterborough & Stamford)

Please contact the school office if you have any questions on 01780 782336 or email office@wittering.peterborough.sch.uk

Soke Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust will require the successful candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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.