Teaching/Care Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local primary academy is looking to hire a part-time Teaching/Care Assistant to support pupils with additional needs starting September 2024. Responsibilities include providing personal and medical support and maintaining records. The school offers development opportunities and a supportive environment for both staff and students.

Benefits

Minimum 35 days holiday

Access to discounts and cashback deals

Discounted gym memberships

Pension scheme with Local Government Pension Scheme

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in providing personal support for pupils with additional needs is essential.
• Ability to maintain professional records and notes related to pupils.

Responsibilities

• Provide one to one personal support for pupils with additional needs.
• Ensure successful engagement and access to learning for pupils.

Skills

Personal support for pupils

Medical support

Professional record keeping

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

Mersey Primary Academy are looking to appoint a Teaching/Care Assistant to join our academy in September 2024 on a part time, temporary basis.

Your new role

As a Teaching / Care Assistant, you will provide one to one personal support for pupils with additional needs. You will provide special educational and/or medical support to ensure their successful engagement with and access to learning. You will need to maintain professional records and appropriate notes in relation to the individual pupil.

What the school offers its staff

Here at Mersey Primary Academy we are on a journey of rapid improvement and were graded as a good school by Ofsted in June 2019. With 200 pupils aged between 3 and 11 housed in our academy, we serve the east of Hull, around the Holderness Road area. We are a small academy, and we pride ourselves on knowing our students well and doing our best to ensure everyone fulfils their potential.

Why join us?

Staff across the trust are talented and enthusiastic, and all contribute to the trust’s success story. At Mersey Primary Academy, we value the continuous professional development of all our employees and recognise that our staff and students are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged and supported to achieve their very best.

Benefits

• Holiday Entitlement: minimum 35 days (subject to pro rata if working part time and dependent upon salary and continuous service) including statutory Bank Holidays.
• Financial: unlimited access to a huge range of discounts on holidays, days out, retailer and cashback deals including Curry’s, John Lewis, Tesco and B&Q.
• Lifestyle and Wellbeing: discounted & flexible gym memberships, eye care vouchers, cycle 2 work/Technology scheme, free annual flu jab and 24/7 access to a market leading Employee Assistance Programme providing expert information specialist advisors trained by Citizens Advice and access to professionally qualified counsellors accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
• Motoring: access to an employee vehicle leasing scheme, discounted vehicle repairs and discounts on car/van hire.
• Pension: excellent employer/employee contributory pension scheme with the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Personal and professional: we offer a range of training and development opportunities for you to grow and develop.

*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained.

In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.

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.