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1:1 Pupil Support Assistant - Part Time

Ashgate Croft School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 4BN

This job expired on 3 September 2024 – see similar jobs

Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
3 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 March 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £10,746.57 - £10,926.03 Annually (Actual) Grade 5

1:1 Pupil Support Assistant - Part Time job summary

About this Role

Ashgate Croft is a large and complex area special school. We provide education and care for pupils with learning difficulties, including autism, profound and multiple learning difficulties and associated communication, behavioural and physical needs.

We are seeking to appoint a Pupil Support Assistant to provide 1:1 support and guidance to a year 9 pupil. You will be responsible for supporting the pupil’s care needs, which may include assisting them with transition around the school toileting, physical needs, changing, gastronomy feeding and eating programmes as necessary.

You will be required to carry out prescribed therapy programmes under the guidance of therapists and teacher and to assist teachers with general classroom preparation. Please see job description for full details.

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applicants. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

This vacancy is linked to a pupil for 20 hours per week, the hours are 11:45am-3:45pm (Monday -Friday.)

Your employment in this post will be temporary and is linked to funding for a specific student - this contract will come to an end when the student leaves the school, although this is not to be regarded as an assurance of employment for this period.

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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