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Midday Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 26 July 2024
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 16 August 2024
Location: Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, SS17 0DF
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: db20206a-f075-442c-ba93-f3cf5ed2a976

Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you looking for that new and rewarding role in education?

A new opportunity has arisen, for a dedicated and enthusiastic Midday Assistant to join our successful team supporting students at lunchtime. Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School are looking for an aspirational Midday Assistant to work as part of a team at Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School, which is a member of Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust. MDA’s create a very positive, happy and secure environment in our playgrounds, dining hall and the school building at lunchtime.

The successful applicant must:

• Interact with the children to encourage good social skills and will lead outdoor activities to encourage participation
• Encourage healthy eating, preparing the tables, supervise playing with the children outside, supervising the clearing up of games and toys, administering first aid and using the school’s behaviour plan
• Ensure the safety and care of pupils who are injured or unwell & provide comfort if distressed
• Assist children with Personal Care where necessary
• Be willing to undertake training, including First Aid

What the school offers its staff

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School is firmly rooted in serving our community. We are proud to be an inclusive school where we recognise that success for young people is built on firm foundations of trust, respect, care and hard work. Staff have high expectations of pupils and pupils work hard to reach these. Pupils appreciate the high-quality support they get from all adults in school. They take responsibility for their learning and behaviour, developing both independence and resilience. Ofsted commented that “pupils are happy and enjoy being at school”.

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School is a member of Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust. Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, with twelve member schools within Essex. All schools in the Trust work in equal partnership and are members of the schools’ Co-operative Society. Our Co-operative Values focus on enabling all students to achieve their potential both academically and as young people.

What the school can offer:

• Recognition of continuous service
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• Career progression throughout the Trust, with the ability to progress in other schools
• The support of an experienced family of schools
• National Conditions of Service
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Excellent behaviour management policy to support all staff
• 2 week October half term
• Wider support network for all staff including managing workloads and work-life balance

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.