Care Assistant
Edith Moorhouse Primary School
Carterton, Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 4 Pt 11 to 13 £8.82 to £9.01 an hour
- Job type:
- Part Time, Supply
- Start date:
- From Monday 8th April 2019
- Apply by:
- 13 June 2019
Job overview
• Closing Date: Friday June 14th (5pm)
• Interview Date(s): TBC
• Contract/Hours: Casual
• Salary Type: Support Staff
• Salary Details: Grade 4 Pt 11 to 13 £8.82 to £9.01 an hour
• Hours of Work: School Holidays – variable hours
Start Date: From Monday 8th April 2019 onwards
• Location of Role: School
• Contact e-mail address: office.2255@edith-moorhouse.oxon.sch.uk
Job/Person Summary
We are looking for efficient and enthusiastic members of staff to join our school as casual bank staff working in our Holiday Club as an Extended Care Assistant. This is a part-time casual position for school holiday time only and the hours will be flexible based on numbers of children attending the club. This post would suit someone with experience in extended care or childcare provision and/or someone who is currently training to work with children.
Duties will include:
• To implement agreed work and play programmes with individuals/groups, in or out of the setting.
• Assist the Extended Care Manager in the whole planning cycle and the management/preparation of resources
• To supervise groups of children under the instruction of the Extended Care Manager.
• Establish productive working relationships with children, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all children within the setting
• Support children consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs
• Encourage children to interact and work co-operatively with others and engage all children in activities
• Promote independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self-reliance
• Be responsible for keeping and updating records as agreed with the Extended Care Manager, contributing to reviews of systems/records as requested
• Promote positive values, attitudes and good behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage children to take responsibility for their own behaviour
• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, safeguarding, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
• Liaise sensitively and effectively with parents/carers as agreed with the Extended Care Manager within your role/responsibility and participate in feedback sessions/meetings with parents with, or as directed
• Participate in training and other learning activities as required
• To undertake other duties, appropriate to the grade, as may reasonably be required.
The River Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools' community.
Visits to the school are warmly welcome and actively encouraged. Please call 01993 842372 to arrange a visit and for any further information.
Application Procedure
Online applications can be made via TES or directly to the school
Application packs can be collected from the school office or downloaded via the school website. Emailed copies of the application form are not acceptable. A printed version of your application form will need to be given to the school office:
For further information about the school please visit our website on http://www.edith-moorhouse.oxon.sch.uk/
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About Edith Moorhouse Primary School
- Edith Moorhouse Primary School
- Lawton Avenue, Carterton
- Oxfordshire
- OX18 3HP
- United Kingdom
Our School
Welcome to Edith Moorhouse Primary School
We are a popular primary school in the Oxfordshire town of Carterton. We currently have just about 300 pupils, with about one third of those pupils coming from Service Families with one or more parent serving at RAF Brize Norton.
In April 2017 we converted to academy status as part of the River Learning Trust.
We are proud of our caring and nurturing approach to education and our school ethos is based on our Core Values. Visitors to our school comment that there is a calm and industrious atmosphere and that the children are polite and respectful. All pupils, staff, parents, governors and members of our local community feel listened to and contribute to our strong school community.
As a school, we continually strive towards reaching our goals and try to be the very best we can. We aim for high standards in all that we do and we adhere to the three River Learning Trust principles:
· Commitment to Excellence: striving for the best educational experience
· Everyone Learning: creating and taking opportunities that enhance lives
· Respectful Relationships: acting with care, integrity, and fairness in all we do
Our school motto, chosen by the pupils, is:
Reach for the Stars
This represents the school’s desire to always demonstrate aspiration and resilience.
We always warmly welcome visitors: please contact the office if you would like to come and meet us.
Mark Szortowski
Headteacher
Working for us
Are you an exceptional teacher or an outstanding member of support staff? We are always on the lookout for motivated and accomplished team members to join us. You’ll be joining an extremely friendly, well-motivated and enthusiastic staff determined to make our school officially outstanding as soon as possible. We can offer you:
- A positive staff culture with extremely high expectations of work and behaviour
- Well-behaved children
- A well-functioning leadership team who views professional development as a priority
- A friendly and well-motivated staff and an inclusive community in which you can flourish
- The opportunity to continue your career working alongside fabulous teachers and teaching assistants.
About River Learning Trust
Edith Moorhouse Primary School is a member of River Learning Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust responsible for a number of schools and a school centred initial teacher training (SCITT) provider within Oxfordshire. We’re a Trust committed to the professional learning and development of staff with high-quality training in-school and through the Oxfordshire Teaching Schools Alliance.
As a school-led organisation, we are always keen to recruit and train the very best individuals who we hope will go on to become excellent teachers in our partnership of schools. We operate under the title, Oxfordshire Teacher Training and all the details of our programmes can be found at http://www.oxfordshireteachertraining.co.uk.
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