Care and Support Workers

Care and Support Workers

Specialist schools in and around the Chorley area are looking to hire care and support workers to provide additional support for their school and its pupils. You do not need any prior school experience or qualifications to be successful in this role- you need to be able to build respectful relationships with the pupils, be able to be professional and calm in challenging situations and provide high quality care to all pupils within the school.

If you feel like this role is for you- please do send a copy of your CV over to Emily!

The school

This is a secondary SEMH (social, emotional, and mental health) school based in Chorley, catering for pupils aged 11-16 years, male and female. As the school is an SEMH provision, the pupils may display challenging behaviours, so the need for staff to be able to remain calm and professional, in difficult situations, while ensuring the pupils safety and wellbeing is always top priority.

The school provides its pupils with specialist intervention sessions run by professionals who ensure all needs are met while promoting their holistic and educational development throughout. The schools’ expectations of its staff are that they are professional, calm, a team player, nurturing and be able to understand the needs of their pupils.

Requirements

• Support / care background.
• Available full-time Monday to Friday (8:30am- 3:30pm).
• Ability to travel to and from Chorley every day.
• Child DBS on the update service.
• Be able to contact your two most recent employers for references.
• Have current, valid documents for proof of address and photo ID.

Next steps

• Send a copy of your CV over to Emily.
• The senior leadership team will review CV’s and meet successful candidates at the school for an informal interview and tour of the school.
• You will need to apply for a Child DBS if you have not got one on the current update service.
• Contact two most recent employers to provide references.
• Be available to take part in a team’s informal interview with Emily.

Role information

• Competitive rate of hourly pay ( £13.00 - £15.25 p/h).
• Full-time, Monday to Friday (8:30am- 3:30pm).
• Chorley based.
• Team environment.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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