Personal Care Assistant

Lime Academy Orton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 5SD

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  29 April 2024 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  27 March 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,114.00 - £23,893.00 Annually (FTE) NJC points 4-6, (pro rata for term time only and 30 hours per week)

Personal Care Assistant job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure:

Learners are safe and enjoy learning

Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Lime Academy Orton has 2 campuses, Orton Goldhay and Orton Malborne, the successful candidate could be offered a position at either site.

Full Time and Part Time Positions Available:

FT Monday – Friday 08:45-15:15 PT Thursday – Friday 08:45-15:15

Overview of the role:

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join our growing Trust and to help create an exceptional learning experience for our pupils by supporting them with their personal care needs.

The successful candidate’s duties and responsibilities will be to support with all personal care needs, including toileting, dressing, feeding, medical needs, postural management and supporting with therapy programmes. We strive to ensure our pupils reach their full potential to allow them to actively participate in the wider community and to prepare them for adult life.

This can be a challenging environment, therefore determination and resilience are key characteristics for the post.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact , or email the school office at to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Lime Academy Orton

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 151 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Lime Academy Orton website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lime-academy-orton (opens in new tab)

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