Pupil Support Assistant
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Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
13 March 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 February 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37hrs per week; 41 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,967 - £23.891
What skills and experience we're looking for
Fox Hill Primary and the Trustees of Steel City Schools Partnership are looking to recruit a permanent, full-time Pupil Support Assistant to start as soon as possible. The post is for 37 hrs / 41 weeks per year, Grade 4 £24,294 - £26, 421 (pro-rata), actual part time salary £21,967 - £23,891.
Fox Hill is a successful school (Ofsted Good - July 2019) in the north of Sheffield serving predominantly the Fox Hill estate. The school has approximately 55% of the cohort deemed disadvantaged pupils and also hosts an Integrated Resource base for 18 pupils with ‘complex and multiple’ special educational needs. We follow a Trauma Informed, Relational approach to supporting pupils.
Expectations:
- To care for all pupils, particularly those who need support to overcome barriers to learning such as behaviour and SEMH difficulties.
- To plan and deliver interventions to help pupils self-regulate.
- To engage children in purposeful activities in lessons and at break and lunch times.
- To build positive relationships with children and families to enable access to a high-quality education.
- To play a central role in a successful pastoral team, liaising impactfully with the broader school team and contributing to the Trust pastoral network.
- To support and champion pupils good attendance.
Relevant Qualifications:
- Good literacy/numeracy skills
- Relevant experience (e.g. use of trauma informed practice, de-escalation strategies)
- Theraplay or equivalent (or a willingness to undertake training)
The successful applicant must have the ability to work as an effective team member, be well organised, and have the ability to communicate with children and adults in a constructive and effective way.
What the school offers its staff
Our success is due to our biggest and most valuable asset – our staff team. We have a number of positions available across our academies and we are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to work with us.
SCSP can offer you
- Guidance of a supportive and experienced leadership team who invest in the development of their teams and the Trust
- Free on-site parking
- Access to healthcare and wellbeing services
- Encouragement of further and continued professional development
- Local Government Pension Scheme
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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About Fox Hill Primary
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 315 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Fox Hill Primary website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@scsp.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0114 2313469
Arranging a visit to Fox Hill Primary
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@scsp.org.uk.
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