Post No. SS1207 - Administrator
We are looking for someone to join our Blue Badge Administration Team as an Administrator. This team sits within the Customer Services Team. We are recruiting for:
• 1 full time Administrator
If you are friendly and able to engage in a polite, sincere and welcoming manner with members of the public then we’d like to hear from you. Working within the Blue Badge Team, we can offer you:
• A happy and supportive working environment
• On-going commitment to your personal development
• The opportunity to work from home for a percentage of your working week, allowing you to better manage your home/work life balance.
Reporting to the Team Manager, you will be responsible for processing Blue Badge applications and Bus Pass applications, keeping all relevant customer management systems and any other systems up to date with accurate information. You will be required to provide accurate and consistent information and advice to members of the public and internal interested parties on behalf of Newport City Council and other partner organisations. You will be educated to GSCE standard, or equivalent and have significant experience of both understanding the principles of excellent customer service and working in an environment where this is provided. You will have the ability to work well under pressure and manage your own workload.
For an informal discussion please contact Rhiannon Powell on 01633 656656.
We welcome applications for all our jobs in either Welsh or English. An application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Newport City Council is committed to working towards its workforce being more representative of the population that we serve and particularly welcomes applications from people from the minority ethnic communities represented (or living) in the city. Selection will be made on ability and skills to undertake the role.
Our values – Fairness for all, Making a difference, Being responsible, Working togetherEin gwerthoedd – Tegwch ar gyfer pawb, Gwneud Gwahaniaeth, Bod yn gufrifol, Gweithio gydan gilydd
Post No. POSN003894 - Caretaker - Ysgol Bryn Derw ASD Special School
Ysgol Bryn Derw are seeking to appoint a caretaker to work 20 hours a week between 7am and 11am Monday to Friday, for 52 weeks per year. Holidays are to be taken during school holiday periods.
Ysgol Bryn Derw opened in September 2017 for young people aged 3-19 who have been diagnosed with ASD and associated complex learning needs. In September 2024 the school will have 120 pupils across 2 sites and the school and aims to provide the highest possible standards of education and support for all its pupils regardless of their level of educational need. We are looking for a committed caretaker who will thrive on this exciting opportunity and who will be able to engage with and work alongside the specific needs of the pupils in this specialised setting.
The Governing Body are committed to appointing a caretaker who:
• Has good literacy and numeracy skills
• Has good communication skills
• Has experience of caretaking or experience of premises management, building cleaning or building maintenance
• Is flexible
• Is able to use own initiative
• Is able to carry out general repairs
• Is able to lift and carry heavy items
• Has excellent interpersonal skills
• Is able to manage own work effectively
Closing Date for Applications: 22nd August 2024
Short Listing: week commencing 26th August 2024
Interviews scheduled for: 3rd September 2024
We are legally obliged to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. If you are invited to interview, you will be asked to provide appropriate documents such as your full birth certificate/passport/work permit in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Newport City Council is committed to working towards its workforce being more representative of the population that we serve and particularly welcomes applications from people from minority ethnic communities represented (or living) in the city. Selection will be made on ability and skills to undertake the role.
Post No. EDSCH01240.2 - Class Teacher (2 days a week only) - Hgh Cross Primary School
Thursday & Friday (Contractual hours 40%. Term Time only, Part-time, Permanent)
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate who will work as part of a successful team at High Cross Primary School. The Head teacher and Governing Body is looking to appoint a Class Teacher to work in this busy and highly rewarding school. High Cross Primary is a thriving school for pupils aged 3-11 years which is situated in the area of Bassaleg, just north of Newport. There are currently 270 pupils on roll.
At High Cross Primary we have the highest expectations of our pupils and staff to ensure that everyone succeeds academically, socially and emotionally. We are fully committed to achieving our school motto ‘Together we grow and shine.’
We are seeking to appoint an innovative and inspirational Class Teacher for 2 days a week (Thursday and Friday) to work with Progression Step 3. The successful candidate will be committed to teaching and learning of the highest standard, to further the success of our primary school and ensure the best opportunities are provided for all children.
We are looking for somebody who:
• Is an outstanding practitioner to further enhance the excellent teaching at High Cross.
• Is a committed team player and role model with proven ability to lead, challenge and empower children and colleagues.
• Is passionate about providing authentic learning opportunities for all children with an inspiring, creative curriculum.
• Is able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of the Curriculum for Wales.
• Is innovative, reflective and flexible in their approach
• Is enthusiastic, motivated, and caring.
• Is able to embrace community partnerships.
• Is able to identify areas of improvement and contribute creatively to help to continue to improve our school
• Has an excellent understanding of ICT both as a teaching and learning tool
Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) are welcome to apply.
The appointment process will involve an interview with members of the school leadership team and a lesson observation.
For further information about this post, please contact Mrs Pegington (Headteacher) on 01633 895472.
THIS POST REQUIRES YOU TO BE REGISTERED WITH THE EWC
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (formerly CRB).
Applications:
Closing Date: Thursday 12th September 2024 Shortlisting: Friday 13th September 2024Interviews and Lesson Observations: Wednesday 18th September 2024Start date: As soon as possible
The Governing Body and Local Authority are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Post No. POSN003886 - Senior Behaviour Support Officer - Lliswerry High School
Working Pattern: Monday-Thursday: 08:00 - 16:00Friday: 08:00 - 15:30 (Total - 37 hours)
We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible individual with relevant work experience to oversee the day to day management of the school’s inclusion team from September 2024. The role will involve working under the guidance of members of the school leadership team, working closely with staff from across the school to play a key role in delivering pastoral and learning support to learners sent to the Inclusion Room (IR) office. In addition, you will receive and supervise learners excluded from, or otherwise not working to, a normal timetable.
You will work to address the needs of learners who need particular help to overcome barriers to learning. You will support individuals and groups of learners to enable access to learning and assist the school’s teachers with the management of learners within the classroom and beyond.
Working closely with our learners you will advise and provide information to enable them to make choices about their own learning/behaviour/attendance, as well as challenging and motivating learners, promoting and reinforcing their self-esteem. A key part of this role is to support learners to access learning using appropriate strategies and resources.
Patience, understanding, resilience and a caring attitude along with the ability to provide support and build positive relationships is essential in this role.
You will be a team player who is able to organise and plan their own time. If you are motivated by how children learn and are able to inspire our more challenging children then we look forward to hearing from you.
The appointment process will involve an interview with members of the school leadership team and a selection of Governors.
This position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS).
As an employee of Newport City Council, you will be able to enjoy the benefits of a generous pension scheme, discounted Newport Live membership as well as other benefits including the Cycle to Work Scheme. Please see Working for the Council for further details
,Newport City Council is committed to working towards its workforce being more representative of the population that we serve and particularly welcomes applications from people from minority ethnic communities represented (or living) in the city. Selection will be made on ability and skills to undertake the role.
Post No. POSN003885 - Midday Supervisor - High Cross Primary School
Fixed Term for up to 1 year38 weeks per year – holidays must be taken during school closure periods
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate who will work as part of a successful team at High Cross Primary School. The Governing Body of High Cross Primary School wish to appoint a Midday Supervisor to join our highly rewarding school. The post is for 6 hours 40 minutes per week excluding holidays until 21st July 2025 in the first instance. You will work 5 days a week between 12.00 – 13.20, supervising primary school children during their lunch break. High Cross Primary is a thriving school for pupils aged 3-11 years which is situated in the area of Bassaleg, just north of Newport. There are currently approximately 270 pupils on roll. There are nine classes in total, this includes a morning and afternoon nursery.
At High Cross Primary, we have the highest expectations of our pupils and staff to ensure that everyone succeeds academically, socially and emotionally. We are fully committed to achieving our school motto ‘Together we grow and shine.’
The Purpose of this Role: -
To help maintain the safety of all pupils in the school during the lunch break, ensuring those eating food in the school hall are able to do so in an orderly and conducive environment. To supervise learners during lunchbreak when outside, ensuring they are encouraged to play and get along.
Expectation and Outcomes of this Role: -
• Assist with setting up the school hall for lunch;
• Oversee pupils eating lunch in the school hall
• Assist in supervision of the school hall involving: ▪ encouragement of good behaviour; ▪ correct use of cutlery and assistance where necessary; ▪ encouragement of good food habits and avoidance of waste; ▪ dealing with spillages or accidents requiring immediate attention
• Maintain effective relationships with pupils during structured playtimes
• Manage pupil relationships whilst supervising outdoors
Your responsibilities are to:-
• Work as part of a team to organise the hall for lunch by setting up tables, cutlery, and drinks
• Support orderly entrance and exit to lunch hall
• Help pupils with opening food, pouring drinks, clearing plates, cutting food as needed
• Ensure pupils clear all food away from lunch tables
• Clear and wipe tables between servings and after servings
• Supervise pupils outside encouraging them to play together
• Initiate and support games
• Talk to pupils when there are disagreements or unfair play
• Manage pupil relationships
• Communicate effectively with class teachers on a daily basis
• First aid duties (Training will be provided)
Applications
Closing Date: Friday 13th September 2024Shortlisting: Monday 16th September 2024Interview: Friday Thursday 19th September 2024Start date: As soon as possible
Post No. POSN003883 - Caretaker St Julian's Primary School
1 Year Fixed Term
The Governors of St Julian's Primary are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, conscientious and professional caretaker. The working week would be 37 hours and the successful candidate will be required to work a split shift during term time. Governors are willing to consider splitting the role between two part-time posts if that would be preferable to any successful candidates. The post is initially for a fixed period of one year. Annual leave must be taken during school closure periods.
The successful candidate must be prepared to work flexibly to ensure that the school functions with the appropriate caretaking support and will need to have good communication and interpersonal skills as well as genuine commitment to the overall security, maintenance and development of the school site. On occasion it may be necessary to secure the site at a later time, due to school concerts, meetings etc.
The successful applicant would be required to start as soon as possible.
Closing date: 30 August 2024
Interview date: T.B.A.
Post No. POSN001289 - Social Worker - Safeguarding Hub
Newport City Council Childrens Services are seeking to recruit a social worker to join our Safeguarding HUB. This is an exciting time to join Newport City Council as we expand our children’s workforce to meet an increase in demand for our services.
You will have good assessment skills and the ability to engage with service users quickly, with a focus on the safety and wellbeing of children. You will be skilled in developing and sustaining effective multi-agency links across a range of professional groups.
The Safeguarding HUB post will involve responsibility for undertaking assessment and investigation work. You will be highly motivated, focused on providing high quality, timely and effective short term assessments and interventions to children "at risk" or "in need of care and support" in the community. You will be part of a highly supportive environment and have good access to training and development opportunities.
We are seeking inspirational and dynamic social workers who are able to make positive contributions to transform the lives of the families we work with. You will work within a service focused on person-centred and strength based approaches committed to achieving Wellbeing outcomes that enable families to safely live together.
Newport is a great place to live and work being a geographically small City with a diverse population of which 35,000 are children and young people. Newport is situated on the M4 corridor and is located between Bristol and Cardiff with excellent transport links further afield. The strengths of working and living in Newport are that it is a growing city that is developing at a fast rate whilst still providing opportunity to access affordable housing, good schools and excellent community resources. We are proud to have a stable workforce or dedicated staff of which all are permanent workers who experience a supportive and positive learning environment. Unique benefits are our effective Prevention and HUB services, the dedicated Mentoring and Consultation team, our partnership arrangement with Barnardo’s to deliver joint interventions to families as well as comparatively low, stable, caseloads, regular individual and group supervision and the opportunities for excellent career development and training opportunities.
For this role you will be a practitioner with a professional social work qualification, DipSW, CQSW, CSS or equivalent and registered with the Care Council Wales (or able to transfer from HCPC or similarly recognised body).
In addition to generous annual leave, good pension scheme, comparative or higher pay than neighbouring authorities Newport City Council offers great benefits including:
• Vehicle allowances; Tax free bikes for work• Working life balance - flexible employment.• Career development• Health and leisure (with discounts with various organisations to enable you to make choices about your health and lifestyle)• Employee Support Service (Carefirst) • Town centre offices with good transport links
Should you wish to discuss this role further please do not hesitate to contact Gemma Strong, Team Manager on 01633 656656.
Our values – Courageous, Positive and ResponsibleEin gwerthoedd – Dewr, Cadarnhaol, Cyfrifol
Post No. POSN003859 - Systems Development Officer
Do you have an eye for detail, are you a creative problem solver and innovator who likes a challenge?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Transformation and Intelligence team, a dynamic team of system leads and data specialists. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual to join the team as a Systems Development Officer. This full-time permanent role will focus on supporting and developing key Council systems across the organisation. Our philosophy is to be the very best at what we do, with the aim to identify functional data quality improvements, provide technical user support and guidance, and maximise system capabilities to enhance service delivery, both operationally and strategically.
The team leads on the support and development of several core critical application systems covering HR & Payroll (iTrent), Performance and Risk Management, Data and Analytics (InPhase), Regulatory Services (iDox Uniform), Housing and Community Case Management projects (CEMP) and most recently, Housing Needs (Civica Abritas).
The successful candidate will hold a minimum of a HNC level (or equivalent) in a discipline that supports the key tasks of the post. Alternatively, a candidate may be deemed qualified by proven ability and experience of working with systems and relational databases, management information reporting, and user support environments, with an understanding of the importance of data to support service delivery and evidence decision-making.
Newport City Council is a flexible employer and appreciates the importance of having a meaningful work-life balance. This post offers the opportunity to work flexibly, to meet the demands of service delivery, together with the demands of home life. This role includes opportunities to work from home and Council locations, in line with business needs.
If you think you have the skills we are looking for we would love to hear from you and in return we will provide a friendly and modern workplace, flexible working hours, and a generous annual leave allowance. This role will initially be based at the Civic Centre however after a period of training there will be scope to work part of the week from home.
Post No. EDSCH01019.16 - Teaching Assistant Level 2 St Julian's Primary School
The Governors of St Julian's Primary are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, conscientious and professional Teaching Assistant (Level 2) to support the class teacher and children with additional learning needs. The successful candidate will be required to work under the guidance of the Head Teacher/class teacher and be committed to helping each child achieve their full potential and be sensitive to their needs.
You will need to have excellent literacy and numeracy skills as well as good communication and interpersonal skills and a genuine commitment to the overall care and development of all pupils.
This is a fixed term post to 31 March 2025 with an immediate start. The successful applicant would be required to work from 8.30 a.m. until 3.30 p.m. (term time). Holidays must be taken during school closure periods.
Closing date: 30 August 2024Interview date: T.B.A.
Post No. EDSCH00200.3 - School Support Officer Level 2 - The John Frost School
Hours of work are 8.00am – 4.00pm (3.30pm Friday)
Start date: October 2024
We are looking for a motivated and well-organised person to work alongside our Examinations Officer as the Examinations Assistant. The main duties will be:
• To assist in processing examinations, including registrations and results entries. • To deal with enquiries regarding examination and accreditation procedures. • To assist with invigilation duties for examinations. • To ensure adequate supplies of examination forms and papers are maintained. • To assist in the allocation of appropriate room accommodation for examinations and accreditation.
The post is term time plus one week to work during school holidays. You will need to be available to work 4 days during the school summer holidays: 2 days GCSE results and 2 days A’ level results. This equates to working for 40 weeks of the year. Some early starts are required during the summer exam season.
Closing date: Friday 30 August 2024