Personal Care Assistant
Yeoman Park Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 8PS15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
24 February 2025
Closing date
5 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week. Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £16,905.46
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
- Be caring and supporting in assisting pupils with their day to day personal needs.
- Support play and leisure activities
- Support pupils with eating and drinking at break times and lunch times
- Support play and leisure activities
- Support teachers, teaching assistants and health care professional with PE and dance lessons, hydrotherapy, rebound therapy, aromatherapy and outdoor pursuits
Essential
- Previous experience of caring for, or working with children.
- Able to follow instructions to support children in an educational setting
Desirable
- Experience caring for children with complex health care needs and their family.
- Relevant health care qualifications as required for the post
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%
- Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse 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 Yeoman Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 108 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Yeoman Park Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sfoster@yeomanpark-ac.org.uk
We are a specialist academy for children aged 3-19. Most learners are on the autistic spectrum and some have severe, complex, profound and multiple learning difficulties. We are based in Mansfield Woodhouse and currently have 113 pupils.
Our academy has a caring and supportive staff team who believe in every learner, and we work together to ensure our children achieve their very best.
Arranging a visit to Yeoman Park Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sfoster@yeomanpark-ac.org.uk.
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