Arboretum Inclusion Key worker

Sidney Stringer Academy, Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 5LY

20 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  18 November 2025

• Closing date

  8 December 2025 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  18 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 5 £24,816 to £29,880

Arboretum Inclusion Key worker job summary

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a committed and enthusiastic Arboretum Inclusion Key Worker to join our team. The successful candidate will play a vital role in supporting our most vulnerable students within one of Sidney Stringer Academy's alternative learning spaces. This role focuses on providing targeted intervention, trauma-informed support, and educational continuity for students with social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) needs who require additional support to access mainstream education. The postholder will work as part of a dedicated team to create a nurturing, structured environment that enables students to re-engage with learning, develop essential life skills, and successfully transition back into traditional classrooms and spaces where appropriate.

Job requirements

• GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and mathematics (grade C/4 or above)
• Level 2 or 3 qualification in Supporting Teaching and Learning, Youth Work, Children’s Workforce, or equivalent relevant field
• Willingness to undertake training in trauma-informed practice, behaviour management, and safeguarding
• Experience working with children or young people with SEMH needs, challenging behaviour, or those at risk of exclusion
• Experience delivering small-group or 1:1 interventions.
• Awareness of the barriers to learning faced by students with SEMH needs
• Resilience and emotional stability when working with complex and challenging behaviour

Why join us?

As the Arboretum Inclusion Key Worker within Sidney Stringer Academy, you’ll be able to make a key difference to a pupil’s educational experience as a crucial part of the wider team, and will have the opportunity to develop your skill set with key training and development opportunities available.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal record check via the DBS.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Sidney Stringer Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1495 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sidney Stringer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sidney-stringer-academy

Our Trust consists of five schools led by Sidney Stringer Academy. The schools are Radford Primary Academy, Ernesford Grange Community Academy, Riverbank Academy (Special School), Sidney Stringer Academy and Sidney Stringer Primary Free School.

All of the schools in the trust are working together with the ambition of becoming outstanding. As the Trust develops we are exploring the opportunities of creating shared posts and services across the schools so that we can benefit from economies of scale.

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