About this role
In this role, you will be the pupil's key adult, balancing highly attentive care with a strengths-based approach that empowers them to thrive independently. Your daily responsibilities will include:
Physical Support & Mobility: Assisting the pupil with safe movement around the school, playgrounds, PE lessons, stairs, and school trips using a graded support approach to foster independence.
Therapy & Positioning: Implementing daily physiotherapy routines focused on core stability, muscle strength, and balance, while ensuring correct posture and orthosis positioning.
Healthcare & Personal Care: Managing high-risk food allergies (EpiPen user) and eczema. Providing essential support with toileting, eating, and fine motor tasks.
Safe Eating & Drinking: Strictly supervising mealtimes and preparing drinks with specific thickener levels in accordance with a Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) plan to prevent aspiration.
Fatigue & Environmental Management: Monitoring fatigue levels, adapting physical activities, providing structured movement or rest breaks, and managing a familiar quiet space.
Social & Emotional Support: Acting as a go-to adult for daily check-ins, facilitating peer interactions in small groups (1:3-1:4 ratio), and helping them express frustration constructively.
The Candidate We Need
We are looking for someone who balances a warm, patient heart with the high level of alertness required to keep the pupil safe.
Key Experience:
Proven experience supporting children with SEN, physical disabilities, or complex medical needs.
Core Skills:
Practical knowledge of physical mobility support.
Strict adherence to food allergy safety and safe swallowing/thickening protocols.
The ability to implement therapy plans accurately.
Personal Attributes:
Highly vigilant, patient, and proactive.
Deeply empathetic with a commitment to promoting independence rather than over-assisting.
Qualifications (Essential & Desirable):
EpiPen / Anaphylaxis training (Highly Desirable)
Paediatric First Aid (Highly Desirable)
Manual Handling certification (Highly Desirable
This is a term-time working role with excellent benefits including salary progression and enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Woodard Academies Trust and [The Academy Name] is committed to safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this
commitment. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions)
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Amendment Order 1986 and, as such, it will be necessary for a Submission for Disclosure
to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal
convictions. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where
applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.