Personal Care Assistant
Redgate Primary Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 6EL7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
18 November 2024
Closing date
13 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 20 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £11,270
What skills and experience we're looking for
We have an exciting opportunity for a Personal Care Assistant to join the team. The successful candidate will support children over a whole age range with varying and sometimes complex needs, to assist with their day to day classroom and personal requirements.
The successful candidate will:
- Support children with personal hygiene and self-care programmes
- Have a knowledge of all roles and responsibilities related to the care and support of children.
- Prepare learning materials and resources, adapting the environment when necessary.
- Support play and leisure activities
- Support children with eating and drinking at break times and lunch times
Essential
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Good planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting demands
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all chidlren and providing equality of opportunity
What the school offers its staff
Our employee benefits
At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.
In return you will benefit from:
- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 14%
- ExcellentContinuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunitiescovering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’sDiverse Association for Professional Learning.
- Full support and induction.
- A strong and caring ethos among staff and students.
- Networking opportunities across Diverse Academies.
- Salary sacrifice opportunities such as car, cycle and technology schemes.
- Staff discounts and offers on gym membership, holidays, days out, cinema tickets, restaurants and top online shopping sites including instant voucher codes.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme – emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
- Health and Wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider, eyecare vouchers for a free eye test and contribution towards glasses for display screen equipment users.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Redgate Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- School size
- 56 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Redgate Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lmaggio@yeomanpark-ac.org.uk
We are a specialist academy based in Mansfield with over 50 children aged 3-11 with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). A large proportion of our children have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and moderate or severe learning disabilities (MLD/SLD). In our latest Ofsted inspection, we were rated ‘good’ in all areas with comments that the ‘school is friendly and inclusive,’ and that ‘children enjoy their time in school’ with children’s personal development being a ‘high priority’.
Arranging a visit to Redgate Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lmaggio@yeomanpark-ac.org.uk.
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