Key Stage 4 Personalised Learning Coordinator
Ridgewood School, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7UB11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,620.00 - £34,414.00 Annually (Actual)
Key Stage 4 Personalised Learning Coordinator job summary
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES/KEY AREAS
Act as the gatekeeper for Personalised Learning Provision (PLP) referrals, under the direction of the Assistant Headteacher, ensuring timely communication of outcomes to staff.
Collaborate with the Inclusion Team to provide tailored support and guidance for students accessing personalised learning.
Design, implement, and oversee personalised learning programmes for individual students or groups, ensuring progress is tracked and monitored.
Work closely with Curriculum Leads and subject teachers to resource and enhance the Star Centre’s curriculum offer, ensuring that it meets the diverse needs of students.
Liaise with families to support strong academic outcomes through clear and consistent communication, helping them provide effective support at home.
Support the EAL coordinator to ensure that new EAL students have their needs identified and met.
Mentor students within the Star Centre, acting as key point of contact and providing regular updates on progress.
Develop and manage timetables for the Star Centre provision, ensuring staff are informed about students’ schedules and provisions.
Communicate effectively with staff regarding both short-term and long-term plans for students accessing personalised learning or an alternative curriculum package.
Collaborate with the attendance team to support smooth transitions and positive starts for new KS4 admissions to Ridgewood, ensuring all necessary arrangements are in place.Organise and run Star Centre detentions for identified students, providing a structured and restorative approach to behaviour management.
Administrative and Community Liaison Responsibilities:
Ensure the smooth operation of the Star Centre by maintaining an efficient administrative system and updating records regularly.
Engage actively with the Performance Management Review process.
Maintain a collaborative working environment by attending meetings, INSET, and other staff development opportunities.
Health, Safety, and Welfare:
Take responsibility for personal health, safety, and welfare, as well as that of others who may be affected by your actions or inactions.
Comply with all health, safety, and welfare policies set by the school.
Miscellaneous:
Uphold and promote the school’s distinctive mission, ethos, and policies.
Perform other reasonable duties as requested by the Headteacher to meet the evolving needs of the school.
Undertake appropriate training to enhance the effectiveness of your role.
37 hours per week term time plus 10 days. Daily hours to cover the school working day
What makes Ridgewood School special?
At Ridgewood School we are extremely proud of our school and the high quality of education that we provide, including our popular and highly successful Sixth Form. Our school motto, ‘Prepare for the road ahead,’ represents our belief in preparing our students for their future, not only in terms of academic achievement, but also in terms of the training, enrichment and experiences which will enable them to become model citizens and responsible members of the community. Our school values: Respect-Responsibility-Resilience, underpin what we do every day and contribute to our ethos in everything we undertake as a school community. In our most recent Ofsted, we achieved a ‘Good’ rating in all categories, and we are committed to this trajectory of success for our students as we aspire to move from ‘Good to Great.’ As part of this journey, in July 2023, we joined Leger Education Trust and look forward to collaborating with other schools within the trust to develop both our students and staff and be the very best that we can be.
We are looking to appoint a friendly and adaptable KS4 Personalised Learning Coordinator who will play a pivotal role in fostering high levels of student behaviour, engagement, and attainment across the school. This position supports Ridgewood’s commitment to inclusion, educational achievement, and personalised learning by coordinating and maintaining an efficient and effective provision for KS4 students requiring alternative or additional support.
Why is the role of KS4 Personalised Learning Coordinator right for you?
We are committed to offering the staff who work at Ridgewood every opportunity to become the best they can be. Our training packages, for staff at all stages of their careers, are second to none. As well as our whole school and departmental training, we also offer a personalised coaching programme, NPQs and bespoke CPD, relevant to the person’s role. In 2023, we received the Teacher Development Trust Silver Award, demonstrating our commitment and passion to providing excellent CPD for all teaching and associate staff.
If you are seeking a dynamic, innovative and caring school, dedicated to the development of staff and our students’ success, Ridgewood is the school for you.
Candidates are required to possess 5 x GCSEs inc English and Maths grade C or above (or equivalent)
We strongly encourage visits from potential candidates – please contact the school to arrange this.
The closing date for this post is 9am Thursday 10 July 2025. Interviews will be held soon after.
Ridgewood School reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date above.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. The school operates a no smoking policy.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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 Ridgewood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1457 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ridgewood School website
Staff and students at Ridgewood work hard every day to embody the school’s core values: Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. We are enjoying a trajectory of continued success and look forward to welcoming a successful applicant who can join us on our journey. We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made as a school, having laid strong foundations for further improvement going forward.
Our school motto, ‘Prepare for the road ahead’, represents our belief in preparing our staff and students for their future. We exemplify our motto not only in terms of academic achievement, but also in terms of the training, enrichment and experiences which make us all model citizens. Our school values underpin what we do and contribute to our ethos in everything we undertake as a school community. We set our standards high and do not compromise, because we believe in the best for everyone.
Never has there been a better time to join us. We are in the early stages of planning a multi-million-pound new build that will ensure that the staff and students benefit from 21st Century resources. We are regularly oversubscribed in Year 7 and our Post-16 provision is thriving.
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