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Midday Assistant

Midday Assistant

Wistaston Church Lane Academy

Cheshire East

  • £4,447.12 per year
  • New
  • Expiring soon
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Salary:
Actual salary. Grade 2
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
November 2024
Apply by:
4 November 2024

Job overview

The Learning Partnership along with the Principal at Wistaston Church Lane Academy wish to appoint a motivated, committed and highly effective Midday Assistant to join our hard working and enthusiastic team.

The successful candidate will have good communication skills, be positive and energetic for the children, a strong team player and be able to use their own initiative. We would also like the successful candidate to help the children have fun and enjoy their lunchtimes.

About the Trust

The Learning Partnership is a diverse new multi-academy trust delivering excellent educational provision for pupils in primary and secondary schools across the North-West. The Trust primarily serves the communities of Crewe, Congleton, and Knutsford, and is now the largest multi-academy trust in Cheshire.

At The Learning Partnership, we believe that there are three core facets of our mission – people, passion, and performance. We are striving to build a community of the strongest people, inspiring a passion for education that galvanises these people to maximise their abilities, which supports all pupils to perform at their best. We believe that these core principles will create a culture that helps all our schools to improve and ensures pupil outcomes are the very best they can be.

The trust subscribes to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter and places staff wellbeing at the forefront of its strategic people priorities. Our ongoing commitment in this area is reflected in our employee offer that includes:

  • Discounts in retail stores, entertainment, and supermarkets
  • Benefits schemes in affordable tech, cycle2work, gym memberships and a car scheme
  • Employee assistance programme providing specialist advice and guidance in a range of areas including menopause, financial management, and up to 8 counselling sessions per referral
  • Free parking


The Learning Partnership is a disability committed employer: applicants requiring adjustments to the application, interview process or would like an informal discussion about the post should contact Jackie Hulme - Business Support Officer on officemanager@wistaston.cheshire.sch.uk 

Interviews will be arranged at a mutually convenient time with candidates.


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Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.45 hours per week between the hours of 11.30am-1.15pm

Weeks: 38 weeks per year (term time only)

Start date: November 2024

Actual salary: £4,447.12 (£11.59 per hour) Grade 2, SCP 2

Closing Date: 4th November 2024

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The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). 

The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable. 

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status. 

The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers. 

 

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About Wistaston Church Lane Academy

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+44 127 066 3619

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Initiatives to support staff wellbeing

As well as a reasonable working expectation, the school offers various initiatives intended to support staff wellbeing. The list of initiatives include: 

Leadership

  • Clear and visible school leaders who take the time to listen and get to know you
  • Reasonable and fair expectations
  • A performance management process designed to encourage personal growth
  • Weekly staff briefing to improve communication
  • Continuing professional development for all staff members
  • No expectation to reply to emails at unsociable hours

 Non-contact time

  • Protected PPA Half day - taken off site if needed, and time with a colleague wherever possible
  • Subject leader release time

 Feedback and Marking

  • Revised feedback and marking policy to reduce marking commitment but ensure maximum impact for the children’s learning - reviewed annually
  • Revised home practice so that is more internet based to reduce teacher marking workload

 Assessment and Reporting

  • Removal of Mid-Year Reviews as we felt it created work for little work for impact
  • End of Year Report reduced in size

 Planning

  • No individual lesson plans and no requirement to hand in short term plans
  • Short term planning formats are entirely up to the teacher
  • Time offered to Teaching Assistants to plan Phonics
  • Non-contact time for class cover Teaching Assistants

 Lesson Observations

  • A typical maximum of three lesson visits a year and these are not used for performance management, i.e. not used in isolation for pay progression decisions

 Comforts

  • Free tea and coffee
  • Staff meeting time back in relation to residentials
  • Where appropriate, twilights will be used instead of an INSET day
  • Colleagues can leave straight after school as long as they are up-to-date with things
  • Staff Shout Out Board
  • Free Christmas dinner/Easter dinner
  • Free staff wellbeing support including 24-hour GP line, counselling and free physiotherapy sessions
  • Employee benefit scheme giving discounts at shops
  • Fair policies regarding dependents leave
  • Regular staff social events
  • An annual collection of funds from all staff members which will be used to pay for gifts at difficult times and for special occasions
  • Comfortable staff room
  • PPA room available

 Unique to Church Lane

  • Low exclusions and well-behaved children
  • We listen to feedback and act on it where it is felt reasonable and practical, e.g. removal of Take Part Days as colleagues felt it was a lot of work for little gain
  • Resources, like whiteboard pens and glue sticks available at all times

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