EPIC Support Worker
The Dean Academy, Lydney, Gloucestershire, GL15 5DZ9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
21 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN)
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,644.01 - £18,820.28 Annually (Actual)
EPIC Support Worker job summary
EPIC SUPPORT WORKER
Required as soon as possible
Point 10 - 14
Salary: £17,644.01 - £18,820.28 Annually (Actual)
£26,835 - £28,624 (FTE)
Hours of work: 28 hours, 25 minutes per week, term time only, including inset days
The Dean Academy requires a support worker to join our EPIC centre (our Enhanced Provision for Interaction and Communication) to work with the SENDCo to raise the learning and attainment of our students with a range of neurodivergent needs across the curriculum, promote student independence, self-esteem and social inclusion. This will be achieved through the development and delivery of bespoke curriculum and wellbeing programmes within the centre and provide proactive and reactive support to students, individually or in groups, so they can access the curriculum, be part of the school community and experience a sense of achievement, as well as supporting EPIC students and other students with EHCPs within the classroom.
The Dean Academy is an 11-16 school with approximately 750 students on roll in Lydney, in the beautiful Forest of Dean. As a local and fully comprehensive school, The Dean Academy is part of the highly successful Athelstan Trust. We are a school that has been on an incredible journey of rapid improvement and were judged as “good in all areas” in September 2021. The successful candidate will share the drive and ambition of our dedicated staff in continuing this community of transformation and will be keen to deliver exceptional education in a “school where students thrive”.
The Dean Academy is proud to be part of The Athelstan Trust and benefits from collaboration and challenge. The Athelstan Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. If successful in being called for interview, all candidates are expected to apply for an enhanced DBS before appointment is confirmed. References will be sought for shortlisted candidates before interview. Please be aware that you will be subject to an online check and that you may be questioned about the findings of such a check at your interview.
Closing Date: Friday 21st March 2025, 12 Noon —interview date to be confirmed
Applications will be considered as they are received; we reserve the right to make an appointment prior to the closing date.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Athelstan Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. If successful in being called for interview, all candidates are expected to apply for an enhanced DBS before appointment is confirmed. References will be sought for shortlisted candidates before interview. Please also be aware that you will be subject to an online check and that you may be questioned about the findings of such a check at your
interview.
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 The Dean Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 690 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Dean Academy website
The Dean Academy is an 11-16 school with approximately 700 students on roll in Lydney, in the beautiful Forest of Dean. As a small, local and fully comprehensive school, The Dean Academy is part of the highly successful Athelstan Trust. We are a school who have been on an incredible journey of rapid improvement and were judged as “good in all areas” in September 2021 leading to the school growing quickly. The successful candidate will share the drive and ambition of our dedicated staff and will be keen to deliver exceptional education in a “school where students thrive” (Ofsted, 2021).
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