Wrap-Around Care Assistant

Great Missenden CofE Combined School; South Heath; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Missenden C of E Primary School is seeking a dedicated Wrap Around Care Assistant to provide care and supervision for children before and after school. You will help run engaging activities, ensure safe arrivals and departures, and support healthy snacks within hygiene guidelines.

The role involves maintaining a safe, stimulating environment, recording attendance, and contributing to safeguarding and health and safety initiatives. A positive, reliable team player is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children in play, childcare or out-of-school setting.
• Excellent communication with children, parents/carers and colleagues.
• Good organisational, record keeping and planning skills.
• Positive approach to inclusive practice with children and colleagues.
• Confidentiality and professional discretion at all times.
• Commitment to school values and ethos.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Club Lead to ensure smooth operation of the wrap around care.
• Ensure safe arrival and departure of children and handover to carers.
• Record arrivals/departures on registers (School Gateway/Arbor) as required.
• Set up the room for daily activities and tidy after sessions.
• Help plan and deliver safe, creative activities in a caring environment.
• Prepare and serve healthy snacks and meals with proper hygiene.
• Promote healthy eating and lifestyle.
• Model positive behaviour and supervise children to ensure safety.
• Keep children safe and minimise risks in the wrap around setting.
• Administer and record first aid as appropriate.
• Follow school policies and participate in meetings/trainings.

Skills

Experience with children

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Inclusive practice

Discretion and confidentiality

Commitment to school values

Education

Short courses and qualifications

Health and Safety understanding

Safeguarding and Child Protection

Paediatric first aid understanding

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Wrap Around Care Assistant to join our team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality care and supervision to our children during before and after-school hours ensuring a positive start and end of their school day . Duties will include organising and delivering engaging activities, ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, preparing and serving healthy snacks and light meals.

WRAP AROUND CARE ASSISTANT

GLT Support Staff 1B-2

Accountable to: Wrap Around Care Lead

Purpose of Job:

• To provide support and care for the children who attend wrap around care at Great Missenden C of E Primary School; ensuring children have a positive start and finish to their day at school.

• To be part of a team providing a safe and stimulating environment for the children with appropriate play opportunities, planned activities and healthy food.

Duties and Responsibilities

To assist the Club Lead as appropriate to ensure the smooth and reliable operation of the club including:

• Ensuring the safe arrival of children and delivery to carers at the beginning and end of the club sessions.

• Ensuring the arrival and departure of children is recorded and monitored on the registers including School Gateway/Arbor as appropriate and in line with our wider school arrival and end of day processes.

• Setting up the room for daily activities and aiding with the care and cleanliness of the room and equipment, tidying the room at the end of the day.

• Helping plan and deliver safe, creative, appropriate activities in a fun and caring environment.

• Preparing and serving snacks and food for the children ensuring that hygiene, health and safety measures are met.

• Promote healthy eating and lifestyle.

• Positive management of children’s behaviour and to act in a responsible manner and role model at all times

• Keeping children safe and minimising risks in the wrap around care environment

• Administering and recording first aid as appropriate.

• Be aware and apply the school’s policies and procedures.

• Participating in appropriate school-based meetings and training activities within contracted hours.

Whilst every effort has been taken to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. Therefore, there is an expectation that the post holder will carry out any other reasonable duties or requests in keeping with this post or as may be determined from time to time by the Headteacher. The Post holder will contribute to the school’s objectives in service delivery by:

Supporting the school by adhering closely to policies and procedures and being a good role model of the school’s vision and values

Being professional at all times

Adhering to the school’s safeguarding procedures and attending relevant child protection training when required

Enactment of Health and Safety requirements and initiatives as directed

Ensuring compliance with GDPR legislation

At all times operating within the school’s Equal Opportunities framework

PERSONAL SPECIFICATION

WRAP AROUND CARE ASSISTANT

Essential

Skills, Aptitude, knowledge and experience

• Experience of working with children in a play, childcare or out of school setting

• Excellent communication skills with children, parents/carers and colleagues

• Good organisational, record keeping and planning skills

• A positive approach to inclusive practice with children and colleagues

• Professionally discrete and able to respect confidentiality at all times

• Commitment to the school values & ethos

Personal Qualities

• Positivity and enthusiasm with a genuine passion for working with children.

• Patience, kindness and approachable manner

• Reliability and trustworthiness

• Adaptability

• Ability to act on own initiative

Qualifications

• A positive approach to completing relevant short courses and qualifications

• An understanding of the importance of Health and Safety and Food Hygiene in the workplace

• An understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection

• An understanding of paediatric first aid

Desirable

• Experience of preparing and serving healthy food in a child-based setting

• Experience of planning and delivering creative, enjoyable and age -appropriate activities for children in the age range 3 to 11years.

• Completion of a recognised Childcare qualification

• Completion of a Safeguarding Awareness Course

• Completion of a Health and Safety course

• Completion of a Food Hygiene course

• Completions of a Paediatric First Aid Course