[241122C] Student Support Worker
UTC Plymouth, Plymouth, PL1 4RL5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 January 2025
Closing date
8 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,093.00 - £31,586.00 Annually (FTE)
[241122C] Student Support Worker job summary
UTC Plymouth, Reach South Academy Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced Student Support Worker to join the School in January 2025.
Post: Student Support Worker
Location: UTC Plymouth, Park Avenue, Devonport, Plymouth, PL1 4RL
FTE Salary Range: Grade E Pt 15-20
FTE Salary: £29,093 - £31,586 per annum
Actual Salary: £25,890 - £28,108 per annum
Contract Type: Term time only (39 weeks)
Contract Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday
About the role
The Student Support Worker (SSW) will play an integral role within the Inclusion, Welfare, and Behaviour Team, providing essential support to students. Key responsibilities include supporting the Reset Programme, delivering targeted interventions for students within The Bridge (our Alternative Provision), and assisting with structured social time activities. The successful candidate will contribute to the implementation of the school’s Inclusion Strategy, ensuring a consistent approach for students across various stages of the pastoral graduated approach.
Purpose of role:
To foster effective partnerships with parents and carers, ensuring a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and well-being of children.
To work alongside vulnerable families and external agencies to coordinate targeted interventions that meet identified needs, overseeing the delivery of a collaborative support plan.
To facilitate and deliver support services and early interventions that enhance parental capacity and family relationships.
To develop and implement a range of innovative approaches to effectively engage with families, particularly those who are hard to reach, in order to improve outcomes for children.
To collaborate closely with the Behaviour Manager to support students facing challenges in accessing the curriculum, and to liaise with Pastoral Leads and relevant stakeholders in developing effective strategies.
Key Principles:
Inclusion is central to ensuring that every student receives an adaptive education. No child should be disadvantaged due to their background, additional needs, or ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences). All staff and students are entitled to a learning environment that is stimulating, challenging, and free from disruption. For students requiring additional support, the school provides three distinct areas:
Reset (Early Help): Immediate intervention and support.
PSC (Pastoral Support Centre): Support for enhanced transitions and SEND needs.
BSC (The Bridge): Focused on SEMH (Social, Emotional, and Mental Health) needs.
Each area of Inclusion is supported by our tracking system, linked to the Graduated Approach, enabling early identification and tailored interventions for each individual case. For more information, please download the job description.
About the School
UTC Plymouth is an educational college for 11-19 year olds specialising in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. Our curriculum is delivered through a combination of industry standard workshop experiences, a focus on high achievement in core academic subjects and industry-led challenges with the aim of offering clear progression routes into employment, apprenticeships, higher education or further learning in work.
Our Core Values; dedication, discipline, professional, resilience and respect, have been developed by students and sanctioned by our partners as personal attributes they desire in employees. They are the bedrock of our college in terms of our ethos, expectations and the personal development journey of our students.
UTC Plymouth works with the most exciting employers in the South West; everything our students learn is geared towards helping them achieve an apprenticeship, setting them up for university and starting an exciting career in high paying industries. The Academy has a PAN of 650.
About the Trust
Reach South is a young and developing Trust which operates across the South West of England with the aim of delivering all through 3-19 education. We operate 15 academies in Plymouth, Bournemouth, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. We are building this Trust on a clear set of values, behaviours and curriculum principles. At the heart of those values and principles is a belief in our young people and a determination to support them to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become the successful citizens for today and all of their tomorrows.
Our core business is delivering exceptional education for children and young people with a mission to help all pupils aspire to achieve beyond the expectations that others put on them. We do this through the development of a talented and committed workforce. In order to deliver exceptional opportunities for learning, we need highly motivated staff across all parts of the organisation.
Those we recruit are able to demonstrate that they share our values, are highly motivated to work with colleagues, within and beyond their school, to continuously develop their skills and pursue professional excellence.
Next Steps
If you think this role may be for you and want to be involved at this exciting time in our development and have any questions about the position, please get in touch by calling the Recruitment team on 07759365064 or emailing us at recruitment@reachsouth.org.
Closing date: for applications is 8 December 2024
Interview Date: Interviews are provisionally booked for 17 December 2024
To apply for this opportunity, please complete our online application form by clicking ‘apply now’ on the advert.
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date. Therefore, an early application is strongly advised.
Opportunities and Benefits
We offer a competitive salary plus LGPS pension, great career progression and development opportunities, access to our Employee Assistance Programme with many other benefits.
We’re proud of how we support our staff in order that you have high levels of job satisfaction, are aware of the difference you are making for the children and families you work with and can see your contribution towards our community. There are regular opportunities for professional development and training, and a wider community of staff to network with within Reach South Multi Academy Trust. You will have the chance to visit other local schools, work alongside a range of outside professionals and take part in a variety of e-learning and face-to-face training.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Each post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Reach South Academy Trust has an Equal Opportunities Policy for selection and recruitment. Applicants are requested to complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring section of the application form before submitting.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About UTC Plymouth
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 551 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- UTC Plymouth website (opens in new tab)
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