Job Description

Midday Assistant

Market Field School, Elmstead Market

Position Type:Teaching/Child Support

Pay Range:Scale 1 Point 2

Position Start Date:Monday 4th November 2024

Contract Type:Part-time

Contract Term:Permanent

Application Close:11/10/2024 Midday

Date of Interviews:W/C 14/10/2024

Job Description

Midday Assistant

Scale 1 Point 2 / 10 hours per week, 43.6 weeks per year (term time only)

Monday - Friday,12pm to 2pm.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work for our wonderful school as a Midday Assistant. We are seeking to appoint a friendly, hard-working and reliable person to join our valued Midday Team as soon as possible.

Your primary role will be to maintain the safety, welfare, and good conduct of pupils during the lunchtime break. Duties include supervising and interacting with the children on the playground or in the dining hall. You will need to be able to work well as part of a team and demonstrate organisation, patience and understanding. Training, including basic first aid, will be provided.

If you feel that this could be for you, we would love to hear from you!

A bit about us

Market Field School and College has been enhancing the lives of students (and their families) with wide-ranging strengths and needs for over 40 years. We moved into a purpose built, specialist environment in 2015 and are fortunate to benefit from a suite of facilities to enrich the quality of provision for our students. With over 500 students and rising, we are one of the biggest special schools in Essex and each day is very different from the day before!

Why work within Hope Learning Community?

Each and every day we are lucky enough and have the privilege of working with the most amazing, unique children. They never fail to inspire, interest and educate us in ways we could never have imagined. We are a forward thinking school and understand that every child is an individual and do our utmost best to ensure they are given the support, guidance and opportunity to succeed in an environment where they feel safe, secure and valued.

Benefits

Local Government Pension Scheme
Opportunities to flourish through CPD training
Free health and wellbeing services including GP appointments, counselling and much more
A wonderfully welcoming school community

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and joining our Midday Assistant team, please do not hesitate to contact us for further information, or to submit your application as per below!

To apply:

Please complete and submit an application form via this website or email for the attention of the HR Department on hrenquiries@marketfield.essex.sch.uk.

Please note that only fully completed application forms will be accepted and any CV's and accompanying covering letters will be disregarded.

Please contact Market Field School on 01206 825195 or email HRenquiries@marketfield.essex.sch.uk should you require any further information.

Please note that all staff are subject to successful completion of a probationary period.

Hope Learning Community is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.

Hope Learning Community is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristics. This is embedded in our vision 'To Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts', where we believe we are strong and more successful working together, creating a workplace which celebrates diversity.