Additional Support Needs Assistant

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About the role

About the role

We are recruiting for an Additional Needs Support Assistant to join our caring and committed team. We welcome applications from candidates with resilience, confidence working with pupils with complex needs, delivering planned interventions and a desire to constantly improve. A full job description and person specification is attached with this advert.

Why St Cuthbert Mayne?

  • We believe that staff are our most precious resource - if we get it right with staff then the best possible outcomes for pupils will follow
  • We are a friendly, caring team who are supportive of one another
  • We strive to provide rigorous and on-going training to staff that is relevant to their role
  • We are a popular, thriving school where all staff have a say in how to improve the working environment
  • We encourage all staff to seize the frequent and systematic opportunities to develop professionally

What will the successful candidate bring to the role?

  • An obligation to grow and improve individually and as part of a team
  • Care and nurture along with high expectations for the children they work with
  • Excitement, enthusiasm and energy

What experience and skills will the successful candidate have?

  • Experience of working with children
  • A positive mindset and ability to find solutions in collaboration with others
  • Ability to communicate clearly, positively and with compassion

What hours?

  • Ideally, we are looking for 32.5 hours per week over 5 days, term time only (8:40am – 3:20pm with 30 minutes lunch break); however, we are open to discussing as much flexibility as possible - we are committed to making it work for all parties

What next?

  • We would strongly encourage you to visit the school and speak with the headteacher if you are interested in applying or if you are curious about the role - we would love to meet you

St Cuthbert Mayne School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as well as other pre-appointment checks outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023). To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.

Contact details

St Cuthbert Mayne RC J M School , Headteacher
Clover Way Gadebridge Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire HP1 3EA

Telephone: 01442 253347
Fax: 01442 230320
Email: admin@cuthbertmayne.herts.sch.uk
Website: www.cuthbertmayne.herts.sch.uk
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