Personal Care Assistant (PCA)

Newman School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 3LX

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  26 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £27,274.00 - £28,153.00 Annually (FTE) Actual £20,606.04

Personal Care Assistant (PCA) job summary

About this Role

Newman School is seeking a caring, reliable, and dedicated Personal Care Assistant to support pupils with personal care needs during the school day. This is a rewarding role where you will make a meaningful difference to a child’s comfort, dignity, and ability to access education.

This role will be split across both sites.

Term Time only Plus 5 days. 8.30am to 3.30pm

Key Responsibilities

• Provide personal care support to pupils, including toileting, changing, and hygiene, in line with individual care plans
• Support pupils’ physical wellbeing while maintaining dignity, privacy, and respect
• Work closely with teachers, SEN staff, and other professionals to ensure pupils’ needs are met
• Follow school policies on safeguarding, health & safety, and infection control
• Keep accurate records where required and communicate effectively with staff and parents/carers

About You

• A kind, patient, and compassionate approach
• Ability to work discreetly and professionally with children
• Willingness to undertake training in personal care, manual handling, and safeguarding
• Experience working with children or in a care setting is desirable but not essential
• Strong teamwork and communication skills

This is an exciting post! We ideally would like this role to start as soon as possible

Visits to the school are welcome; please contact Olivia Sharp the Office Manager on olivia.sharp@vennacademy.org or telephone 01709 828 262 to make arrangements.

Our Multi Academy Trust is a group of inspirational and aspirational mainstream and specialist schools in Yorkshire whose main objective is to ensure that all pupils make exceptional progress through the development of outstanding staff.

Venn Academy Trust is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Our Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment.

An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants

Online searches will be carried out as part of Venn Academy Trust’s recruitment due diligence for all shortlisted candidates in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Newman School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• Size: 185 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Newman School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/newman-school-rotherham

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