Teaching Assistant
Aurora Beeches School
Dorset
- £11 per hour
- Expired
- Salary:
- plus 13% holiday pay
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Casual
- Apply by:
- 30 March 2023
Job overview
Location: Leyland, nr Preston, Lancashire
Salary: £11.00 per hour (plus 13% holiday pay)
Hours: Flexible shifts to include early mornings or evenings
Aurora Brambles School is an independent day school in Lancashire providing specialist education for young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties (SEMH).
What is bank/casual work?
Our bank staff usually cover staff sickness, holiday and busy periods and they are able to choose what days they want to work, giving them a great deal of flexibility.
The main purpose of the role:
To provide a cleaning service for the school across all types of rooms, including offices, classrooms, laboratories, halls, corridors, and toilets.
Key Duties:
- Duties to include the following:
- Vacuum cleaning floors.
- Spot cleaning of spillages.
- Wiping furniture, ledges, pipes, paintwork, doors and polishing door glass.
- Emptying and cleaning bins (daily).
- Cleaning toilets including sanitary fittings and surrounds.
- Mopping and spray cleaning hard floor surfaces.
- Wiping, dusting, cobweb removal, polishing.
- Replenishing janitorial supplies in toilets, etc (daily).
- Undertake deep clean as and when required.
- Checking and closing windows, switching off lights after work and ensure the building is secure on exit.
- Such other duties as may be allocated from time to time.
Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required.
Skills and Qualifications
Skills and Qualifications:
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
- Some knowledge of Health and Safety Regulation in regards to cleaning equipment and cleaning materials.
- Ability to work effectively and supportively as a member of the school team.
- Ability to work with minimum supervision.
- Ability to prioritise work and be flexible.
- Experience of undertaking a range of cleaning duties.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
- Full training and continued support
- Life assurance and pension
- Health cash back plan - money back for things like dentist and optician treatments
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box – lots of discounts for many high street retailers and restaurants
- Free parking
For more information on this position please contact karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children."
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
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About Aurora Beeches School
Welcome to our Special Needs Secondary School in Cranborne, Dorset
At Aurora Beeches, we believe in giving young people the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, we support students with a range of additional learning needs to create and meet their own goals.
All our students are fully involved in choices around their own programmes, so that whatever their plans are – whether they want to pursue further education, training or employment – they are empowered and supported to create their own futures.
Our School
At Aurora Beeches, we support young people to make choices about their own futures.
We provide high levels of personalised support to help our students to make positive life decisions, work towards gaining qualifications and employability skills for their chosen careers and learn independent ‘preparation for life’ skills.
Our academic and vocational study programmes are designed to help every student access employment or further education, including at Aurora Boveridge College – the further education provider with whom we share our beautiful campus.
Our Facilities
Aurora Beeches is situated within the Aurora Boveridge College campus, a beautiful 50-acre site near the village of Cranborne in the Dorset countryside.
Our students enjoy access to modern, well-equipped classrooms, as well as vocational areas including a digital studio, science lab and art and design base.
Our extensive grounds include horticulture learning areas with large glasshouses, as well as motor vehicle workshops, an animal care unit and excellent sports facilities.
Our Curriculum
We offer a varied curriculum, including academic subjects such as English, maths, science, humanities, and art up to GCSE level, as well as vocational subjects including horticulture, animal care, motor vehicle engineering and digital IT.
We also offer a Forest School programme, delivered on-site in our extensive grounds.
During their time at Aurora Beeches, students have regular appointments with an independent careers advisor and plenty of opportunities to try different work options through our work-based learning programme.
Alongside working on the skills needed for employment or further study, our students also engage with our therapy team to support their long-term success and to develop essential independent living skills.
Our Outcomes
We are proud to list evidence of the progress and performance of our students (for the previous academic year) below -
· 100% of students who took A-level Chemistry achieved A*
· 100% of students who took A-level Mathematics achieved A*
· 100% of students who took GCSE Geography achieved grade 6
· 100% of students who took GCSE History achieved grade 5
· 67% of students who took GCSE English Language achieved grade 5 or higher
· 100% of students achieved Level 3 Practical Horticultural Skills
· 100% of students achieved Entry Level Science
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