Required for January 2025, the governors and staff are seeking to appoint a highly effective, motivated and dynamic after school club assistant to join our dedicated team of professionals. In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the smooth running of our brand new after-school club, ensuring that our pupils have a fun and engaging after school experience.
We are looking for someone who:
• Has experience of working with children in an educational or childcare setting
• Can work collaboratively as part of a team
• Has strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Is enthusiastic, creative and has a passion for working with children
In return we can offer you:
• Friendly, hardworking and supportive colleagues who are committed to children’s success
• Enthusiastic and well-behaved children
• Supportive parents
• Training to ensure that you are able to effectively carry out the role.
Visits to the school are essential. Please contact Mandy Sale, our Business Manager, on 01724 842152 to arrange a suitable date and time. Further information about our school can also be found on our website
Holme Valley is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Any offer of employment to this post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau and satisfactory references.
Why join us?
We offer:
Competitive salaries
Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions up to
Generous annual leave and Bank Holiday entitlement
Flexible and agile working
A modern workplace with access to great technology
Salary sacrifice schemes- ie the option to purchase additional holidays or a bike to cycle to work
Family friendly policies supporting fostering, adoption and caring responsibilities
Our values and culture
We stay true to our values:
Equality of opportunity so everyone can have a good quality of life.
Striving for excellence and high standards.
Using our resources wisely and with integrity.
Promoting self-responsibility and people having choice and control over their own lives.
Our organisational goals are to be:
Progressive and enabling in our approach.
Financially and environmentally sustainable.
Safer recruitment
As an employer, we will:
· Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers.
· Commit to the recruitment of a diverse workforce to best meet the needs of our customers.
· Ensure that recruitment decisions are based on reasonable and objective criteria, free from bias or unfair discrimination.
· Provide training for recruiters to ensure they are fully equipped with the skills to recruit the best people.
· Make reasonable adjustments to any aspect of the process to meet individual need, where known.
Please note that new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend an interview.
All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant work permit where necessary. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, we will also require additional information in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks and receipt of satisfactory references which will be sought prior to interview.
The above post will be subject to a DBS check, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here ( 'It is an offence for anyone barred from working with children or adults to apply to work in regulated activity with that group'
This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK and other pre-employment checks where applicable.