Level 1 Personal Care Assistant

Derby City Council; Derby; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The Harmony Trust is looking for a motivated Level 1 EYFS and SEND Personal Care Assistant to join the Inclusion Service. This role focuses on providing essential personal care to pupils, ensuring their experience in education is supportive and inclusive. Career progression opportunities are available within a committed team.

Benefits

Opportunity for future career development & progression

High quality professional development

Qualifications

• Willingness to undertake relevant training.

Responsibilities

• Personal care for pupils including supporting toileting and feeding.
• Work as part of the Inclusion Service team under the SENDCO.

Skills

Literacy and numeracy skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong team working skills

Knowledge of communication strategies for pupils with Autistic Spectrum Condition

Job description

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Our Vision and Values
The Harmony Trust has the highest aspirations for its pupils, parents and staff members. Our vision is to provide an excellent primary education so that every academy is a ‘GreatPlace2Learn.’ Our aim is to ensure that children at our academies enjoy the best education from the early years to the end of the primary stage. Parents are very important to achieving this vision and we aim to work in partnership with them to ensure that all our children achieve our motto: ‘Believe Achieve Succeed’. We believe that school should be a place where every child makes progress in a safe and supportive environment. We believe in the importance of children developing well-being and high self-esteem if they are to learn and do well.

We also believe in The Harmony Trust being a ‘GreatPlace2Work’ where staff are supported to thrive by a trust that is committed to learning and education. We have a great team of people working in our Academies. We aim to retain them by investing in professional development, offering opportunities to work across the Trust ensuring Harmony is a great place to work.

Employment Opportunity
The Board of Trustees wish to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Level 1 EYFS and SEND Personal Care Assistant to become part of our Harmony Trust Development Team Inclusion Service. The post holder will initially be deployed to Village Primary Academy.

As a Trust we are working to our commitment within the strategic plan to develop specialist provision through the Inclusion Hub model and Early Years Model. This is to enable an integrated offer for those children who need it most and to provide families with greater choice for their child’s education. The successful candidate will work as part of the Inclusion Service team and will be line managed by the SENDCO. The role will include personal care for our pupils including supporting toileting and feeding where needed.

The Harmony Trust was established in February 2014 and currently has 15 schools. This brings with it exciting opportunities for career progression and development for existing and future employees.

The successful candidate will have:
• Literacy and numeracy skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong team working skills
• Knowledge of communication strategies for pupils with Autistic Spectrum Condition
• Willingness to undertake relevant training

We can offer you:
• The opportunity to be part of our team, who are committed to educational excellence
• friendly and supportive staff, parents and Trustees a commitment to high quality professional development,
• opportunity for future career development & progressionand most importantly
• the opportunity to help create an environment where our children believe, achieve and succeed.

The Harmony Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all our staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.

Full details of the Trust’s recruitment and selection processes can be found in our Safer Recruitment policy:

The closing date for this vacancy is Wednesday 26th June 2024 at 11:59pm.