Job Introduction
Wraparound Care Assistant
Support
- Closing Date: 25 April 2025
- Interview Date(s):
- Job Start Date: ASAP
- Contract/Hours: Salary Type: EHCC / Support Staff
- Salary Details: Grade C £24,405- £25,430 FTE per annum
- Hours of Work: 6 hrs per week - term time only 7.00am – 9.00am Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
- Location of Role: Hook with Warsash C of E Academy
Job/Person Summary
The Headteacher and Governors are looking to appoint dedicated and caring practitioners for our growing wraparound care provision. We require Before school club assistants who will support the running of our high quality provision. We are happy to accept applications for either the full 6 hours, or 2 hours on any of the days available.
The successful candidate will:
- Be someone who cares for the children and enjoys seeing them have fun
- Be creative and can come up with ideas for activities for the children to engage in
- Have good behaviour management skills
- Have a caring, patient approach towards children
- Have a positive approach that supports the schools’ visions and values
- Have strong interpersonal skills with children and adults
- Be a team player with a professional attitude
- Is able to use their own initiative
- Has appropriate experience of and enjoys working with the 4-11 age group
- Has a Childcare qualification (desirable)
Duties include
- Setting up the Before and After School Club provision
- Support a weekly activity programme of activities
- Welcoming children and helping them to settle in to the session
- Supporting the children in a wide variety of active games and quieter small group activities including board games, construction, arts and crafts and indoor and outdoor sporting activities
- Attend to children’s health and well-being needs as necessary
- Assisting in clearing away once the sessions have ended
- Following procedures to dismiss children to their carer at the end of the session
- Complete relevant paperwork in line with the role and responsibilities
- Food preparation
- First Aid
We can offer
- A school that has a warm, caring ethos
- Happy, well-motivated children
- A skilled and dedicated team of teachers and support staff, committed to doing the best for all the children in the school
- A supportive leadership team and governing body with a commitment to your professional development.
Application Procedure
Visits to the school are welcome and warmly encouraged. Please contact the school office on 01489 572393 to make an appointment.
For an information pack and application form, please email a.willmott@warsash.hants.sch.uk
Applications can be submitted by post or emailed to Ann Willmott, Business Manager to the above address.
Safer Recruitment
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
