Midday Supervisor
Post Title
Midday Supervisor
Post Location
Shenstone School
Crayford - 94 Old Road, Dartford, Kent DA1 4DZ
Sidcup - St Andrews Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 4RX
Position Status
Permanent
Contractual Hours:
10 hours per week (11:40 a.m. – 1:40 p.m.)
Contractual Weeks:
38 weeks (term time only)
Salary:
BEXLEY 04 (£11.41 per hour)
Post Start Date:
September 2021
Closing Date:
9.00am on 7th July 2021
Interview Date:
15th July 2021
About School Name
Shenstone School is a primary aged (Nursery to Year 6) special school for pupils with severe, and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties. Shenstone School is one school based across two sites (Sidcup and Crayford). We also have a temporary site at Parkway Primary School. We are committed in supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of all our pupils, staff and parents/carers and we stand by our motto of “together we engage, thrive and achieve”. Shenstone School was inspected in October 2019 and the outcome is that we continue to be a ‘good’ school, where the children are happy and learning is made fun. For further information about the school, please visit: www.shenstone-tkat.org
We are part of The Kemnal Academies Trust, For further information about the trust, please visit: www.tkat.org
Your Opportunity
Due to increasing pupil numbers again this year, we are looking for caring, resilient, reliable and enthusiastic candidates to join our dedicated team.
Are you looking for a challenge and are able to support/encourage our amazing pupils with SEND to achieve their full potential in our specialist primary school setting? The achievements of our pupils are extraordinary and will give you a sense of achievement when they make progress, however small. Midday Supervisors will support pupils with behavioural needs which vary from child to child so you will need to be both confident and resilient in working with challenging behaviour.
We are very proud of Shenstone School and we are thrilled have achieved: The Wellbeing Award for Schools, Outstandingly Happy School status, Move Gold quality Mark Award, National Online Safety Certified School status and we are also an accredited Arts Award Centre. We continue to expand with new ideas and initiatives in order to maintain the improve services for both pupils and staff.
Staff at Shenstone School can access the following benefits: Excellent Induction and probation process, Comprehensive In-house training (Manual handling, Team-Teach and much more), competitive Pension Scheme, Employees counselling services, vaccination programmes, on-site mental first aid team and various other wellbeing and social activities.
Your Application
To apply for this vacancy please download, fully complete and return the application form to hr@shenstone-tkat.org. Please ensure that you are using TKAT application form.
References will be requested for shortlisted candidates and prior to interview. Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted.
This post is considered to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the person specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check.
We are committed to equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic for example race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. All applications are treated on merit. This includes applications from individuals wishing to work full time, part-time or on a flexible basis.