Care Assistant in a Special Needs School

Salary: £21000 - £22000

Hours: Alternating weekly early and late shifts.

Early shift (45 hours) Monday 8am-4pm, Tuesday 7am-5pm, Wednesday - Friday 7am-4pm.

Late shift (32 hours) Mon-Thurs 2:30pm-10:30pm

Start date: Jan 2025

Requirements:

• Minimum one year of experience working in Care or School in the UK
• Right To Work in the UK (NO SPONSORSHIP provided)
• Prior experience working with children or young adults with Special Needs
• Ability to manage Challenging Behaviour
• A commitment to safeguarding children and young people
• Comfortable with performing Personal Care activites when required.

Main Duties

• Assist in the 24 hour day-to-day needs of the pupils, school and residential accommodation.
• Motivate and encourage pupil(s) as required by providing levels of individual attention, reassurance and help with living and learning tasks as appropriate to pupils’ needs.
• Follow behavior management plans or other specific strategies as directed, consistently and effectively in line with agreed policy.
• Take responsibility for the personal care of designated pupils.
• To also assist in the school
• modify or adapt the activities as agreed with the teacher to achieve the intended learning outcomes.
• Help make appropriate resources to support the pupils and prepare work and activities in advance of the lesson e.g. making books, labels, signs and undertake practical tasks to maintain a good standard of classroom appearance.
• Provide general clerical and administrative support, e.g. administer coursework, produce worksheets for agreed activities using ICT where appropriate.

If interested, Kindly apply to the job advert. Interviews taking place immidiately!