Welfare Assistant
The Olive School, Manchester, Manchester, M8 0DF10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 10 hours per week (Mon to Fri 7.15am to 8.15am, Mon to Thurs 11.30am to 12.30pm and Fri 10am to 11am)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,656.00 to £23,656.00 per annum (pro rata £5,499.28 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for a talented individual to help foster a caring and supportive learning environment for our young people. Your experience of pastoral care will place our learners’ welfare at the heart of the school.
The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to problem solve and provide excellent customer service to our community.
You will have:
- Experience of working with children.
- Understanding of and ability to implement Health and Safety standards in an educational environment.
- Understanding of importance of the school meal for pupils and the importance of the midday break as a social and educational period.
- The ability to deal with pupils in a fair, patient and firm manner.
- The ability to liaise with both the support staff and teaching staff at the school and to work with others as a team.
What the school offers its staff
The Olive School, Manchester is a new 420-place Muslim faith primary free school in Cheetham Hill. The school opened in September 2024 and admitted an intake of 60 pupils in Reception. The school will continue to admit a new intake of Reception pupils each year so that from 2030 it will accommodate pupils in the full 4-11 age range.
Like all Star schools, The Olive School, Manchester will have a leadership specialism. We will provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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 The Olive School, Manchester
- School type
- Free School, Muslim, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 420 pupils
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Olive School, Manchester website
- Email address
- amreen.yousaf@olivemanchester.staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 0161 383 2760
School location
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