Personal Care Assistant
Lime Academy Orton
Peterborough
- £14,387 - £14,914.74 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 4, points 3-5, starting salary for 30 hours term time plus 5 inset days £14,387.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 21 May 2023
Job overview
Personal Care Assistants – Lime Academy Orton
Full Time and Part Time Positions Available:
FT Monday – Friday 08:45-15:15 PT Thursday – Friday 08:45-15:15
Grade 4, points 3-5, £20,812-£21,575 FTE (Actual starting salary for 30 hours £14,387.28)
Applications can be made at https://limetrust.org/join-our-trust/vacancies/
The Lime Trust is looking for Personal Care Assistants to join their team. The Lime Trust consists of 8 schools, 4 Special and 4 Primary in Cambridgeshire and North and East London.
Lime Academy Orton is a special school split over two sites in Orton Goldhay and Orton Malborne, Peterborough, for children and young adults with complex and severe needs including learning difficulties, physical impairment, sensory impairment and ASD aged from 2-19.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join our growing Trust and to help create an exceptional learning experience for our pupils by supporting them with their personal care needs.
The successful candidate’s duties and responsibilities will be to support with all personal care needs, including toileting, dressing, feeding, medical needs, postural management and supporting with therapy programmes. We strive to ensure our pupils reach their full potential to allow them to actively participate in the wider community and to prepare them for adult life.
This can be a challenging environment, therefore determination and resilience are key characteristics for the post.
The Lime Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school to school collaboration and Trust direction, high challenge and high support. All schools in the Lime Trust strive to improve life chances for all and respected in their local communities.
The Lime Way:
- Always working to be brilliant
- Putting children first
- Setting the standard
- Building capacity rich schools
The Values we embed in our schools are:
- Respect
- Equality
- Self-worth
- Partnership
- Enjoyment
- Communication (a voice for all)
- Trust
Trust Benefits:
The Trust provides a strong culture of collaboration, support and development, together with high expectations for staff and pupils alike. Benefits include:
· IT equipment (relevant to the post)
· Well-being support including online resources/app/initiatives
· Extensive CPD opportunities, including support with external courses for further career development
· Enhanced maternity leave benefits
· Membership of a generous pension scheme (LGPS or TPS)
· National pay rates
· Cycle to work scheme
· Flexible working opportunities
· Job-sharing/Part-time working
· Term-time working
· Career break
· Supportive Special Leave requests
· Subsidised school meals
Recruitment timetable:
Closing date: 14 May 2023
Shortlisting: w/c 15 May 2023
Interviews: TBC
Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office to arrange a visit.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.
Attached documents
About Lime Academy Orton
- Lime Academy Orton
- Clayton Site, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough
- Cambridgeshire
- PE2 5SD
- United Kingdom
Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure:
· Learners are safe and enjoy learning
· Everyone feels included, respected, and valued
· An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood
· Employee potential is recognised and invested in
Putting Learners First is the Trust’s vision. We do this by providing high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do
LIME Trust Vision & Values
Putting Learners First is our Trust vision.
We aim to create a nurturing and supportive learning environment for all, encouraging our learners to achieve academic excellence and reach their full potential. We set high expectations and build capacity-rich schools through facilitating school-to-school collaboration. The high challenge we put forward is met with equally high support from our team of education experts, so we continue to improve our children’s lives and futures – especially for disadvantaged pupils.
Our values are based on R.E.S.P.E.C.T. which means we believe that:
Respect is built on unconditional positive regard for all learners, all employees, and our wider communities.
Equity enables everyone to be treated as individuals. It removes barriers, provides opportunity and celebrates difference.
Self-worth creates a culture where all learners, all employees and our wider community have pride in their contributions and feel confident and valued.
Partnership is working together for the common good, ensuring that our learners are at the heart of all that we do.
Enjoyment is feeling happy, safe and motivated to make a positive contribution.
Communication provides a voice for all, creating a shared understanding through dialogue.
Trust is a partnership which requires us to act with integrity. Be brave, honest and kind.
Top 5 reasons for working for Lime Trust
- The Trust is committed to our vision and values as above which are always incorporated in everything the Trusts achieves.
- Reduced workload for teachers as planning days are arranged half termly for all year groups collectively across all schools.
- Enhanced benefits for both teachers and support staff
- CPD and career pathways which enhances career progression across the Trust
- Wellbeing is at the forefront for both leaners and employees.
- The Trust is committed to our vision and values as above and are always at the heart of the direction of the Trust growth plan.
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