Personal Care Assistant

**Salary**

Grade 2 - Actual £17,324.29

**Contractual hours**

26.25

**Basis**

Part Time

**Job type**

Support Staff - Educational

**Location**

Yeoman Park Academy Mansfield Woodhouse NG19 8PS

**Job category**

Support Role - Education/Behavioural Support

**Date posted**

28/01/2025

**Job reference**

R04957

**Job Title: Personal Care Assistant**

**Working Hours: 26.25 hours Monday to Friday**

**Salary: Grade 2**

**Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only**

Yeoman Park Academy are looking for a highly motivated and dedicated Personal Care Assistant to join our dynamic, talented and supportive team. We would very much recommend and welcome you for a visit so you can meet us and understand our community.

**Why join Yeoman Park Academy?**

We are a specialist academy for children aged 3-19 with severe, complex, profound and multiple learning difficulties based in Mansfield Woodhouse with 111 pupils. In our latest Ofsted inspection, we were rated ‘outstanding’.

Our academy has a caring and supportive staff team who believe in every child. The future for all children and families who attend Yeoman Park Academy is bright, and we know that when we work together, we can ensure our children achieve their very best.

Yeoman Park Academy, Park Hall Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 8PS

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**The opportunity**

This will include supporting students with moving and handling plans, individual behaviour management strategies; implementing personalised sensory modulation activities and following direction from class teachers and teaching assistants through the school day. The job will require you to be active throughout the day to support out learners physical health and mental wellbeing needs. Please see the Job Description for more details.
- Work directly with young people building relationships and working together to ensure that our community is safe and well supported.
- Be caring and supporting in assisting pupils with their day to day personal needs.

Essential
- Has a commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students and providing equality of opportunity.
- Support the maintenance of pupil safety and security.

Desirable
- Relevant health care qualifications as required for the post.
- Experience caring for children with complex health care needs and their family.

**Our employee benefits**

At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.

In return you will benefit from:

- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 14%
- Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning.
- Full support and induction.
- A strong and caring ethos among staff and students.
- Networking opportunities across Diverse Academies.
- Salary sacrifice opportunities such as car, cycle and technology schemes.
- Staff discounts and offers on gym membership, holidays, days out, cinema tickets, restaurants and top online shopping sites including instant voucher codes.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme - emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
- Health and Wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider, eyecare vouchers for a free eye test and contribution towards glasses for display screen equipment users.

**Applications**

**Closing date: 14**th** February 2025**

**Start date: April 2025**

**Diverse Academies Trust**

Diverse Academies is a multi-academy trust with a vision to inspire, to raise aspirations and to create brighter tomorrows. Across primary, secondary and special settings, we share a common mission to nurture curiosity, develop wellbeing and empower children and young people to go beyond their aspirations. Together, we believe we can make a difference in our diverse communities, and in the lives of those who learn with us and work with us.

**We empower. We respect. We care.