After School Club Assistant
Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 2 (Outer London): £19,896-£19,935 (Full Time Equivalent)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 January 2019
Job overview
We are looking for an After School Club Assistant to join our talented team.
Your opportunity
You will work under the guidance of the After School Club Leader and Principal to provide child care for pupils attending the After School Club. You will be working closely with the children providing encouragement, friendship and supervision, and assisting the Leader in offering the children a wide range of play activities and ensuring that the club offers the children a relaxed, informed and caring environment.
As part of Harris, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education in London. With regular progression opportunities and outstanding CPD for support staff, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether at Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace, in one of our other 46 academies, or in our central team. Our aim is to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.
Harris Benefits
As part of the Harris Federation, we can offer you a range of benefits, including:
- The opportunity to develop and grow your career within the Federation.
- Performance and loyalty bonus
- Pension scheme (LGPS) and access to our Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan, covering a range of health and wellbeing benefits
- Bicycle Purchase and ICT loans
Click here for a full list of Harris benefits.
What we are looking for
We look for talented individuals who want to be a part of transforming education in London, and helping create exceptional places of learning. We are looking for people who:
- Have had experience working with children of a relevant age
- Hold NVQ Level 2 in Early Years/Play Work/Teaching Assistant or equivalent
- Have worked with children with a range of additional needs
- Are flexible and reliable and able to use their initiative
- Work well as part of a team
Please download the job pack for a full job description and person specification.
About Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace
Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace is a vibrant, multicultural primary academy on the borders of Bromley, Croydon and Lewisham with a clear vision for the future. We are a warm and welcoming academy where the children feel happy and safe. Our academy is in the exciting position of having a ‘Good’ Ofsted under our belt and we are striving for ‘Outstanding’. In our inspection, Ofsted said: “The Principal and other senior leaders have secured good improvements since the academy opened. The quality of teaching has improved. Pupils say that lessons are more interesting and that this has helped to improve their behaviour. As a result, leaders have established a happy and supportive atmosphere which encourages pupils to enjoy academy life and achieve well.”
Why work at Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace?
- A learning community that inspires everyone to have high aspirations and develop a life-long love of learning
- A stimulating learning environment in which staff and children feel welcome and safe
- A commitment to equality of opportunities, with a culture of respect for different beliefs and for diversity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential
- All the advantages of a successful academy group, including a strong central team of support, teaching and leadership staff
- Generous Harris rewards and benefits package
The Harris Federation
The Harris Federation is the leading large Multi Academy Trust in the country for both primary and secondary education. We have an established reputation in transforming education in London and an unrivalled track record in achieving success through rapid school improvement.
Closing the gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers has always been a core mission of the Harris Federation. We have transformed standards in schools that had, in some cases, failed for generations before joining the Harris Federation. Social mobility is the Holy Grail for the pupils we serve. The key to their futures is a high quality education.
We want every child in London to have the best possible education, enabling them to fulfil their potential and decide their own future.
We look for motivated support staff who are committed to helping us transform lives and who will share our belief that every child has the potential to do well.
Please note: academies may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn at any point without notice. You will still be able to add information until the closing date, but you will not be able to submit your application. With this in mind, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
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Harris academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. In line with our commitments to safeguarding, the Harris Federation uses preferred agencies and is unable to work with any agencies where Terms of Business have not been agreed by both parties prior to an engagement.
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About Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace
- Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace
- Malcolm Road, Crystal Palace
- London
- SE20 8RH
- United Kingdom
School summary
Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace opened in September 2013. We are a vibrant, multicultural primary academy on the borders of Bromley and Lewisham with a clear vision for the future. We are a warm and welcoming academy where the children feel happy and safe. Our academy is expanding with our move to becoming two forms of entry.
We have more than 280 lively young minds at our Academy. Children are supported to be the best they can be by our dedicated teachers and support staff.
We are a Primary Academy for local children. We have high aspirations for our children and are committed to ensuring that everyone in our academy reaches their full potential and develops the skills to become a life-long learner.
Academy ethos
Our aims and values underpin all of our policy and practice and we ensure that all staff, pupils and the wider community have a shared understanding of our vision. Everyone at our academy aspires to our ‘ACT’ vision where we are ‘Aspirational, Compassionate, Team-players’.
We aim to:
- Ensure that all of our pupils leave our academy literate and numerate, fully equipped for secondary school.
- Develop a learning community that inspires everyone to have high aspirations and develop a life-long love of learning;
- Create a stimulating learning environment in which children and adults feel welcome and safe;
- Ensure that equality of opportunity enables everyone to reach their full potential;
- Support children to become confident, well-rounded individuals who recognize the part that they play in society;
- Develop a culture of respect for different beliefs, religions and cultures and have a good understanding of British values and democracy;
- Provide a rich and balanced curriculum that inspires children and encourages them to take control of their learning;
- Encourage children to take care of their environment and recognize the part that they play in creating a positive learning environment;
- Create an environment which nurtures the spiritual and moral development of every child and promotes respect for diversity;
- Work with parents and the local community to ensure that the academy is a place of learning for all.
Academy specialism
Literacy
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