Link Support Officer & Thrive Practitioner

Winifred Holtby Academy, Hull, HU7 4PW

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  1 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) £19,086 actual salary, SCP6, 32.5 Hours per week, Term Time Only plus 5 days

Link Support Officer & Thrive Practitioner job summary

As a Thrive Practitioner, you will provide support through a range of strategies to enable pupils to make positive choices about their own attitudes to learning, attendance and punctuality. Establish positive working relationships, to motivate pupils to build self-confidence and improve self-esteem. This will include the Thrive approach and ELSA. Deliver support programmes (Thrive 1:1, group work) depending on the needs of individual pupils or small groups using the `Thrive Approach’ profiling system. Lead the `Thrive Planning Cycle’ for each identified pupil(s), co-ordinating and adjusting strategies and where necessary signposting to external support establishing constructive relationships with all stakeholders including parents, school staff and external professionals, to support the achievement and progress of pupils.

About You

The successful candidate will have previous experience working in an educational environment with children and experience of working with and supporting parents / carers. Candidates will also be educated to Level 2 (or equivalent) in English and Maths, show a commitment to completing the `Thrive Practitioners Training’ (14 sessions, be committed to the ongoing `Licensed Practitioner CPD’ offered by Thrive and be committed to wider safeguarding training offered by The National College. You will be able to engage with pupils, have the ability to form trusting relationships with children and their families and have extensive knowledge of school policies and procedures.

What WE can Offer YOU

In return for your skills and experience, we provide a supportive and friendly environment to develop and thrive. We offer all staff access to an excellent pension (TPS/LGPS); a generous annual leave entitlement with additional shutdown days over the Christmas period; staff development opportunities; free onsite car parking; and a supportive induction programme.

For an informal discussion about this post, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Jennison via 01482 826207.

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process because of a disability, condition or impairment. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The Consortium Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An appointment will be made subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS disclosure, in line with the usual terms and conditions of employment at The Consortium Academy Trust.

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.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Winifred Holtby Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1334 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Winifred Holtby Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/winifred-holtby-academy

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