Midday Assistant

Required: September 2024

Contract Type: Part-Time, Permanent

Salary: Scale 2.2 (£222,366) Actual Salary £2,269

Hours: 4.5 per week, 38 weeks per year

FTE: 10.15%

Application Deadline:31/08/2024

Building Great Learning Communities

Our Mission is 'To build great learning communities where children flourish'. To accomplish our mission, we keep our 3 core beliefs at the heart of everything we do: Courageous Optimism, Boundless Creativity and Heartfelt Compassion. We support our schools to deliver excellent pupil outcomes, create vibrant, exciting environments and offer rewarding careers for employees. To help us with this, we are looking to appoint a Midday Assistant at Ford End C of E Primary School to provide a safe and positive lunch-time experience. The successful candidate will:

• Share our passion and commitment to building great learning communities for our pupils
• Have excellent communication skills
• Be professional, approachable and caring
• Have first aid knowledge
• Enjoy working with children (experience preferred but not essential)
• Work as part of a team

The successful candidate will become part of a small, friendly village school with an ethos rooted in Christianity. The school is committed to providing the very best learning opportunities for the pupils in a safe, secure and friendly environment.

In return we can offer you:

• Supportive and friendly colleagues
• Happy, friendly and well-behaved pupils
• A stimulating and welcoming learning environment in a fantastic school community with a family feel
• High quality continuous professional development
• An all-inclusive and supportive Multi-Academy Trust
• 24Hr wellbeing support package & free flu vaccinations
• An all-inclusive and supportive Senior Leadership Team and Multi-Academy Trust
• Links with the local community, including our charity partner, The Trussell Trust Food Bank
• Close proximity to the A12, with access to Chelmsford and other local towns and villages
• Retail discounts

Applications:

Please forward your completed application form, together with a letter of application and supporting paperwork to Ms Melissa Taylor at recruitment@lifeeducationtrust.com by 31st August 2024. A copy of the school’s Support Colleague Application Form can be found on the school website www.fordendschool.com. Shortlisting and interviews will take place shortly after. The school reserves the right to interview prior to the deadline date. 

For further information about this role, please contact Vicky Smith, Head of HR via email at recruitment@lifeeducationtrust.com. Visits to the school are welcomed.