Childcare Assistant - The Prince of Wales School

The Governors and Senior Leadership Team invite applications to join our friendly, hardworking and inspiring Pre-School team.

We are looking for a dedicated and highly committed Childcare Assistant to work initially on a fixed-term - part-time basis, supporting the 1:1 needs of an identified pupil (Spring and Summer Term 2026 - three mornings per week 9 hours per week.). 

The successful candidates will need to:

- Be flexible, enthusiastic and adaptable.

- Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

- Have experience and knowledge of working with pupils with challenging behaviour

- Have some experience of first aid.

- Have a Level 3 (minimum) qualification.

Visits to the Pre-School are warmly welcomed.

Interviews planned to take place on: Friday 5th December 2025

Please see attached for the required form and supporting personal specification.

Visits are warmly welcomed; please telephone the Pre-School office to make an appointment.

Closing Date for applications: 4:00pm - Friday 28th November 2025.

Start Date: Monday 5th January 2026.

The Prince of Wales School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.