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  • Start date details

    ASAP Pending Checks

  • Closing date

    31 May 2024 at 8am

  • Date listed

    15 May 2024

Job details

Job role

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

UQT

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • To plan, prepare and deliver a range of Forest School sessions to classes, with support from assistants as appropriate.

  • To Assist with the provision of LOtC activities and, through the process of training and involvement, facilitate the effective and efficient delivery of LOtC lessons across the curriculum.

  • Under the direction/instruction of Senior Staff, provide general support to pupils and staff, including preparation, routine maintenance of resources/equipment and facilitate student progress academically, socially and personally.

What the school offers its staff

SCHOOL DAY

The school day for pupils runs from 9.00am – 3.10pm

HEALTH ASSURED

Health Assured provide our employees with support to enable you and your immediate family the best in life. Their 24/7 confidential support service can be used for a variety of issues including;

Legal information

Housing concerns

Family issues

Financial information

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.

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About Courtlands School

School type
Academy, ages 4 to 11
School size
107 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11

Courtlands Special School Academy is a friendly and ambitious academy in Plymouth which caters for primary aged children (4-11) with Moderate Learning Difficulties and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. Our innovative curriculum is based on meeting individual’s needs rather than schemes of work, and provides a wide range of curriculum and therapeutic input.

We are leaders in our field, having won numerous national awards for our work, and work in a Trauma Informed way to support our children to overcome their difficulties and make great progress in all areas of their development. We constantly strive for the best ways to support our children, and welcome innovation and new, evidence based ways of working.

You will need high levels of emotional resilience, and good coping strategies born out of successful experience of teaching and supporting children with complex needs including Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties such as ADHD and attachment disorders; Communication and Interaction needs such as ASC and Speech and Language Difficulties. This could be in either a special school or mainstream school, with mainstream experience being an advantage.

We can offer you a motivated and skilled staff team and a real opportunity to make a difference to the future of our wonderful children and school. We look after our staff with award winning care for their wellbeing (National Wellbeing in Schools Award 2019). You won’t be taking marking home to do in the evening, and you will be given the freedom to meet the needs of the pupils in your class, along with the resources to do it. You will receive training in a wide range of SEND and real time support and mentoring form a Leadership Team whose door is literally open all the time.

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