Care assistant at the LVR Helen Keller School in Essen

Permanent part-time care assistant role on daytime shifts from Monday to Friday, with up to 29.25 hours per week. You will support pupils with additional needs with daily care, basic personal care, lessons and leisure activities, working alongside teachers, therapists and nursing staff. You will initially work at the Christoph Schlingensief School in Oberhausen for a limited period, then generally at the LVR Helen Keller School in Essen. Leave can only be taken during school holidays; additional time off during school holidays is balanced by extra work during school weeks.

• Provide basic personal care, such as helping pupils eat, carrying out toilet training and supporting pupils with their care needs
• Help maintain order and cleanliness in care activities
• Support daily classroom routines in classes caring for pupils with profound disabilities

• Sensitivity when working with pupils with disabilities
• Previous experience caring for children and young people is preferred
• Knowledge of hygiene is an advantage
• Willingness to take responsibility
• Flexibility when priorities change
• Ability to cope with pressure and work efficiently and stay focused in stressful situations
• Ability to work in a team and actively help colleagues care for the children
• German language skills, demonstrated by a German school qualification, a B2 certificate or an integration course certificate, and the ability to communicate clearly and precisely with children and young people with and without speech disorders
• Proof of sufficient protection against measles before signing the contract, unless born before 1971 or demonstrably exempt from the legal vaccination requirement
• Interest in meaningful work
• Seeing diversity as an opportunity
• Willingness to develop professionally and personally
• Cover letter in German
• CV in German
• Proof of protection against measles under Section 20(9) of the German Infection Protection Act