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Midday Assistant

Gorsey Bank Primary School, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5NQ

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• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  7 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 8.75 hours per week TTO
• Contract type: Permanent
• Hourly rate: £12.67 per hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

Do you love working with children and creating a fun, safe environment? 

Gorsey Bank Primary School are looking for a caring and enthusiastic Midday Assistant to join their friendly team!   

Some responsibilities will include :

• Creating a positive lunch experience - Supervise children during playtime and ensure a safe and happy environment, both in the dining area and during playground activities.  
• Administering limited First Aid - Liaise with school First Aider if there are any accidents during lunchtime and administering limited first aid e.g. plasters, where appropriate.  
• Maintaining a clean and welcoming space: Set-up and clear lunch areas, ensuring a tidy and hygienic environment.  

The shift pattern for this position is 12-13:30 Monday-Friday. The specific days that you will work can be discussed at the interview.

If you would like to join our Laurus family in a rewarding role that changes the lives of our pupils by empowering them to become the best that they can be then we would love to hear from you.  

What the school offers its staff

Ensuring our pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to become motivated, passionate and resilient learners is at the heart of everything we do. Our ambition is for all pupils to develop a full appreciation of the world in which they are growing up and to feel a sense of awe and wonder about the vastness of human creativity and achievement.

However, we recognise that academic achievement alone is not enough, and that emphasis should be placed on the personal development of our pupils. We do this by providing a progressive Enrichment Curriculum as well as an ambitious Academic Curriculum. Both are underpinned by our school mission to:

Nurture lifelong learners who are confident and ready to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the outside world.

Professional Development

We attach huge importance to continued Professional Learning and recognise that, in the exciting and ever-changing environment in which we work, we are all learners and are constantly looking for ways to improve our practice.

Our comprehensive in-house Professional Learning offer comprises weekly pedagogy and subject knowledge-based sessions, Action Research Communities, Further Professional Learning sessions, opportunities to coach and mentor and to engage in research.

As a Trust we actively develop our teachers through nationally accredited programmes including a range of National Professional Qualifications and many of our staff have completed courses at Masters level. Members of our Leadership Team regularly engage in school-to-school support and deliver training for Early Career Teachers.

Being part of a Multi Academy Trust also enables our staff to work across schools and phases. Not only does this broaden their experience, it opens up a wider range of leadership and development opportunities.

Flexible working opportunities

To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. At the Laurus Trust, we value the significance of a healthy work/life balance for our employees. Achieving a better balance can boost motivation and morale, lower stress levels, enhance performance and productivity, and make job opportunities more inclusive. Whenever feasible, we are committed to offering flexible arrangements from the very start, which could include options like part-time roles, term-time working, Job-sharing and compressed hours.

Commitment to safeguarding

Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and talents.

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About Gorsey Bank Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 406 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Gorsey Bank Primary School website
• Email address: recruitment@laurustrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gorsey-bank-primary-school-wilmslow

At Gorsey Bank we believe that whatever children’s interests, passions or talents, instilling a love of learning is the most important thing we can do for them. Developing the right knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable our pupils to become motivated, passionate and resilient learners is central to the Gorsey Bank philosophy and is at the heart of everything we do.

We are a highly oversubscribed school with a proven track record of outstanding pupil attainment which placed us in the top 2% of schools nationally for our most recent Key Stage 2 results.

Gorsey Bank converted to academy status and became a proud member of the Laurus Trust in October 2016. We echo the Trust’s Vision and continue to strive “for everyone, regardless of background or circumstance, to be inspired, to thrive in all environments, to recognise what it takes to succeed, to set aspirational goals and to work hard to achieve them.”

Our mission is to prepare our children to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the outside world and we do this through a broad, balanced and memorable school curriculum.

We have identified four ‘Curriculum Drivers’ – elements that are integral to our school ethos of ‘embracing the challenges and opportunities of the outside world’ and they will further enhance the exciting and engaging learning opportunities that our pupils enjoy every day. These include:

Collaboration - to learn from each other, to support each other, to be successful together;
Possibilities- to change ourselves, to challenge each other, to push boundaries;
Respect - to understand ourselves, to appreciate each other, to value diversity;
Technology - to learn, to communicate, to create.

Professional Development

We attach huge importance to continued Professional Learning and recognise that, in the exciting and ever-changing environment in which we work, we are all learners and are constantly looking for ways to improve our practice.

Our comprehensive programme of in-house Professional Learning comprises weekly pedagogy-based sessions, Further Professional Learning sessions, opportunities to coach and mentor and engage in research.

Being part of a Multi Academy Trust enables our staff to work across schools and phases. Not only does this broaden their experience, it opens up a wider range of leadership opportunities.

As a Trust we actively develop our teachers through nationally accredited programmes such as the NPQ's and many of our staff have completed courses at Masters level. Members of our Leadership Team regularly engage in school-to-school support and deliver training for Early Career Teachers.

If you want to work in a highly ambitious and successful school and believe you have the vision and commitment to join our team, then we would love to hear from you.

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