Educational Support Officer
Penryn College, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 8PZThis job expired on 4 November 2024
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
16 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,398
What skills and experience we're looking for
We require an Educational Support Officer to play an active part in ensuring that the College’s outcomes for students, including high need SEN and behaviour students, are achieved. In order to support and facilitate the wellbeing and progress for identified students, this role will include working directly with pupils in the classroom or on a one-to-one or small-group basis.
You will be an active and resourceful part of an Educational Support team that delivers responsive and effective support to students, with the ability to build and sustain positive relationships with students and parents/carers and to overcome barriers to learning both inside and outside school. You should have good literacy, numeracy and interpersonal skills, evidence of effective working with young people and high expectations for pupils' achievements.
This is a full-time, term time only position, with INSET training days and an additional seven days to be worked throughout the year. These seven days will be used for working during the summer holidays for Summer School, Stepping Stones Day and after school for Subject Review, learning events, evening meetings and additional administration time.
The hours are 37 per week, Monday to Friday, to be worked between 8.15am and 4.30pm, on a rota basis, with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break each day. The salary is proportionately reduced in the number of weeks worked during the year. The position is paid for 45.852 weeks per year. The role is paid on a grade F1 (£22,398) with a starting salary of £19.695.70 The closing date for application forms is 4th November. Interview dates week commencing the 11th November.
What the school offers its staff
The health and wellbeing of our entire school community, including staff, is of utmost importance to us. We have a dedicated Mental Health Lead and a number of employees at the school who are mental health trained to support staff and students alike.
Our Staff Wellbeing Team strive to organise a number of activities in and outside of school, including craft workshops, sports activities, and more. We also have a Workload Wellbeing Team that work to ensure the school is always considerate of staff members’ work-life balance.
We actively encourage staff to take part in the many continuing professional development (CPD) workshops and classes we operate at Penryn College, helping to strengthen and/or develop new skills.
Additionally, we are firm believers in working in partnerships. We have strong links with the University, a long established partnership with a large group of primaries and we are part of the ‘Creativity Collaboratives Programme’, funded by the Arts Council England, testing and evaluating a range of innovative practices in teaching and learning. This has developed our strong, existing relationships with local primary schools and universities, providing many benefits for our staff.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and as such our school aims to create the safest environment within which every student has the opportunity to achieve.
In accordance with our policies, we are unable to process applications via CV. Only applications made on a fully completed Penryn College application form will be considered.
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About Penryn College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1154 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Penryn College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- vacancies@penryn-college.cornwall.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01326 372379
We’re a lively, thriving school, and we pride ourselves on offering the very best for our students.
We cater for children and young people aged 11-16 who live in Penryn and the surrounding villages of Constantine, Flushing, Mabe, Mawnan Smith, Mylor, Perranwell and Ponsanooth. Students also join us from Falmouth and other outlying villages and towns.
Our PAN (published admission number) for each year group is 210, but the occupational capacity is slightly different for each one. Currently, we are oversubscribed in all year groups.
Originally, Penryn College opened in Falmouth in 1957, and was moved to its present site in 1961. Since that time, there has been a programme of continuous improvement and updating of buildings/classrooms. Our biggest development was the opening of our £24 million College building in 2008.
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