Wrap Around Care Assistant

Wrap Around Care Assistant - 5 days per week 3.30 pm to 6.00 pm Monday to Friday

Term Time Plus INSETS (34.4 weeks per year)

Salary: £6,242 per annum (actual)

Interviews: shortly after advert closes

Newland House School is a successful, flourishing co-educational independent day school for pupils aged from 3 to 13, based in Twickenham, in Southwest London.

Job overview

We are seeking reliable and enthusiastic staff to work in our Wrap Around Care provision. The role is after school from 3.30 pm to 6.00 pm. The positions provide an excellent opportunity to work at a successful independent school, providing support and care in line with the school’s policies and procedures.

Job requirements

• Experience of working with children in an educational, care or extracurricular setting

• A relevant childcare qualification would be helpful but is not essential

• Creativity and willingness to engage in hands-on-activities such as arts, crafts, sports, games and outdoor activities

• Awareness of Child Safeguarding

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to establish good relationships with children and parents

Why join us?

We set high standards of learning for all the children in a caring and supportive environment, and you will help to promote our ethos in encouraging enquiring minds and building pupil’s strengths, interests and experiences. We pride ourselves in fostering excellent home/school relationships with parents and the candidate will be expected to have strong communication skills.

In return, we offer competitive pay, a 34.4 week year, refreshments (term time), professional and personal development and an active staff social committee.

If you are enthusiastic about making a meaningful difference in a child's educational journey, we would love to hear from you!

Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis, and we reserve the right to interview, appoint and close the advert early depending on the volume of applications we receive. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment.

Safeguarding ​

Newland House School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process in accordance with the guidelines of the government document, Keeping Children Safe in Education. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service(DBS). All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check and a disqualification from childcare check.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Newland House School values diversity, equity and inclusion for its pupils and staff. We want our community to feel valued and respected, so we are working hard to build an inclusive culture which celebrates diversity in different forms to reflect the community we serve. We believe that having a diverse workforce offers different perspectives which helps us to work towards our shared vision and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to join our School.