Personal Welfare Support Assistant

Samuel Allsopp Primary and Nursery School, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2LU

28 days remaining to apply

Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
11 October 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Early years
Working pattern: Part time: 25 hours per week across Monday - Friday
Contract type: Fixed term - Until July 2024
Full-time equivalent salary: £22,737

What skills and experience we're looking for

Thank you for your interest in our post as a Personal Welfare Support Assistant, working to provide personal welfare support for a given pupil. This contract is fixed-term in the first instance, until 31st July 2024 and is to start as soon as possible. Please find enclosed a job description, person specification and application form.

Our school has two sites- our Victoria Road site for Nursery to Year 3 pupils and our Orchard site for Years 4 to Year 6 plus our specialist Speech and Language Centre. Our school serves a predominantly ethnic community where over 90% of our pupils speak English as an additional language.

Applicants should be qualified to NVQ Level 2 Teaching Assistant (or relevant equivalent). Experience of previous employment working with children with special educational needs or Key Stage 1/Key Stage 2 (post dependent) is preferred but not essential. Your application form should outline the experience you have working with children and any strengths and skills you feel you could offer the school.

What the school offers its staff

Samuel Allsopp Primary and Nursery School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is subject to an enhanced criminal records check from Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent remands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions on your application form.

Commitment to safeguarding

This School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.