Hospitals Transitions Coordinator
James Brindley School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2AF7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
23 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36.5 hours per week plus 5.2 banked hours (Banked hours are additional hours worked to enable you to take school holidays as paid leave).
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3: SCP 20 £26,409 pa to SCP 28 £32,654 pa + SEN TA £1,670 pa
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an enthusiastic and positive person with a can-do attitude? If so, join our team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital! We are seeking a talented individual who can develop and maintain great relationships as a Transitions Coordinator. In a customer facing role, you will be working with children, families and clinical teams to help support pupils to overcome barriers and achieve their dreams!
You will work closely with the teachers and home schools to ensure pupils undergoing treatment still have access to learning and don’t fall behind their peers. You should be passionate about developing and supporting the needs of the whole child and committed to enabling all pupils to achieve their potential. Experience of working with children with SEND or medical conditions are essential, as well as excellent communication skills needed to the role as the first point of contact for pupils and their families. You must be willing to work across all our centres and have full clean driving licence.
What the school offers its staff
This is an excellent time to join James Brindley as the Academy continues to implement a strategic vision developed by young people, staff, and other stakeholders.
Join us to ‘Think Differently’ to inspire young people to overcome all barriers and achieve their dreams.
James Brindley is a stand-alone Academy based in a wide variety of locations across the City of Birmingham. During a school year, we educate over 3,000 young people for periods ranging from a few days in hospital to several years in one of our teaching centres. Many of our young people have complex medical needs and many have been out of education for a significant period prior to joining us.
We offer a full-time curriculum to young people from EYFS to KS5 and our aim is always to enable them to ‘close the gap’ and to exceed expected progress during the time they are with us. We offer a full-time curriculum to young people from EYFS to KS5 and our aim is always to enable them to ‘close the gap’ and to exceed expected progress during the time they are with us.
Further details about the role
Completed application forms are to be emailed to: vacancies@jamesbrindley.org.uk . Please ensure the application form is signed if sending via email. If you have provided an email address, we will use that for correspondence. If your application is shortlisted, you will be contacted via email within 2 to 3 weeks of the closing date. Please ensure you check your junk/spam inboxes.
Online Search
As part of our recruitment checks, an online search will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates. This search does not form part of the shortlisting process, and you will have the opportunity to discuss any issues of concern that may arise from this search at the interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
James Brindley Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this. Please be aware that this post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance check and any offer of employment is made conditional of this. You will also be required to register and pay for the DBS update service and ensure that documentary evidence is produced to ensure annual compliance and updates. You will also be required to provide written consent for the employer to access this information at any time.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to vacancies@jamesbrindley.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About James Brindley School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 137 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- James Brindley School website
- Email address
- vacancies@jamesbrindley.org.uk
James Brindley is a specialist academy which aims to provide a high quality education in a safe, supportive and aspirational environment for all children and young people unable to attend mainstream school because of health related or special educational needs.
We provide education for children and young people aged 2 – 19 who are in hospital or unable to attend mainstream school due to their medical conditions or special educational needs.
James Brindley Academy delivers education across 10 sites including teaching centres and hospitals throughout Birmingham.
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