Pupil Support Assistant
Severndale Specialist Academy, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 5SH9 days remaining to apply
Closing date
7 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Monday to Friday, 10am-2pm daily. Term time plus 1 week.
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- Starting at £12.45 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our Personal Support Assistants are a key part of the support team at Severndale, enabling our learners’ personal care needs to be met in a compassionate, hygienic and dignified way, so that they are clean, comfortable, happy and ready to learn in their classrooms. We want our learners to be as independent as possible, working to toilet train where their needs allow. Our PSAs are part of a team, who work together effectively to provide care across the academy, with each PSA usually allocated to a small number of classes, often working with a partner, managed by our Lead PSA.
The successful candidate will effectively support the personal care needs of pupils, with 20 hours worked from 10:00 to 14:00. Although we are currently recruiting aimed at Monkmoor campus, you may be expected to work at either Monkmoor (Shrewsbury) or Futures (Shrewsbury College, London Road) depending on the needs of learners.
As part of the Pupil Support Assistant role over lunchtimes you will assist pupils with play, welfare and feeding of an individual or small group of pupils. This will involve accessing training to support learners with different eating and drinking needs.
Skills required:
- Ability to build good relationships with children, staff and parents
- Excellent verbal communication
- Excellent listening skills
- Organisational skills
- Positive whilst working under pressure
- Ability to effectively use manual handling techniques including hoisting (when trained).
You should be an energetic, enthusiastic and committed professional who is flexible and reliable and able to work on your own initiative, with the ability to establish effective working relationships at all levels, particularly as a member of a team. You should have the relevant skills and personal qualities such as being dynamic and proactive to undertake the range of duties and the ability to work accurately and consistently.
What the school offers its staff
- Permanent Contract
- Pupil Support Assistant: Salary - Scale 2 (SCP 3-4), starting at £12.45 per hour
- Contract – 20 hours per week / 5 days per week, Term Time plus 5 PD days
- Start: 10:00am. Finish: 2:00pm
- Access to the School Advisory Service & Bike to work scheme
- Continuing Professional Development
- Local Authority 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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Severndale Specialist Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Severndale Specialist Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01743 563333
Severndale Specialist Academy:
Severndale Specialist Academy is a multi-site special school incorporating our Monkmoor campus, provision within a local mainstream secondary school and a purpose built 16-25 year old provision at our local college. We work with young people with special educational needs from within Shropshire and beyond. Our children and young people can access Severndale Specialist Academy from nursery age through to 25 and have a range of learning, physical and mobility difficulties and some students require personal care. Supporting communication and enabling independence is a key focus of our work .
Severndale is a truly unique special school and is one of the largest special schools in the country. We are proud to be able to meet the needs of over 430 young people across all abilities of the SEND spectrum and across three different sites. Severndale is also proud to be part of The Learning Community Trust, a truly inclusive multi academy trust based in Telford.
Arranging a visit to Severndale Specialist Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk.
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