At a Glance
- Tasks: Support a child with high learning needs and contribute to their development.
- Company: Lawn Primary School, an outstanding nurturing environment in Derby.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a supportive community.
- Other info: Join a forward-thinking school with great career opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in a child's life while working in a friendly team.
- Qualifications: Patience, creativity, teamwork, and excellent communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 19328 - 19328 £ per year.
Care Assistant Required from 8th September 2026 Fixed Term, Term time only, 32.5 hours a week Grade C point 5 (£25,583.00 FTE) Actual Salary per annum £19,328.12.
Lawn Primary School is seeking to appoint a Care Assistant to support a child with their day to day care needs and contribute to the management of pupil behaviour and development. Lawn Primary School is an outstanding nurturing primary school with 436 pupils, located in a leafy suburb of Derby with extensive grounds and buildings. We warmly welcome applications from motivated, nurturing individuals to join our dedicated and highly effective team as soon as possible.
The role is to support a specific pupil with extremely high learning needs. You will:
- Have the patience to provide group support to children with additional needs;
- Be creative in your approach to learning and delivering the curriculum;
- Have high expectations of pupils’ achievements and a commitment to excellent standards;
- Work well as part of a team;
- Be literate and numerate;
- Be enthusiastic, energetic and committed to making learning exciting;
- Have excellent communication skills with children and adults.
In return we offer:
- A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards;
- Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives;
- Calm and purposeful learning environments;
- Friendly, polite, well behaved children who deserve the very best;
- Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community;
- A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school;
- Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust.
Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.
Closing date for applications: midnight 17th July 2026.
Care assistant employer: Lawn Primary School
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