Pastoral Support
Wishmore Cross Academy, Woking, Surrey, GU24 8NEDeadline is today
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
22 November 2024 at 12:37pm
Date listed
25 October 2024
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
- £29369 - £29703 per annum
Pastoral Support job summary
Salary: NJC 15 - 18, £27,803 - £29, 269 (actual), £23,807 - £25,063 (pro rata salary) + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours: 37 hours, 39 weeks
Contract: Full Time, permanent
Start date: As soon as possible
Are you passionate about education and looking for a fulfilling career?
Wishmore Cross Academy is seeking a enthusiastic and and passionate individual to provide pastoral support to individuals and groups of children in school who are experiencing social, emotional and mental health difficulties. If you are committed to inclusion, achieving high standards and share our vision of excellence for all then please contact us. This is an ideal role for an experienced teaching assistant or someone with a keen desire to learn. The team at Wishmore Cross are incredibly hard working, supportive and welcoming to all new staff.
You're someone who'll be able to:
* Support pupils with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties, including reintegration into the school environment.
* Use a variety of strategies to assist children, de-escalate situations, and encourage positive relationships and learning.
* Create and carry out behaviour plans and track their effectiveness.
* Encourage positive emotional health and well-being through planned activities for individual pupils and small groups.
Looking to make a difference every day?
Join our team and play a vital role in ensuring our students receive the education they deserve. You'll provide invaluable support to delivering an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
You're someone who has:
* Knowledge of interventions that can support children, such as activities to develop social skills.
* Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
* The capacity to work both independently and as part of a team, showing initiative in various situations.
* The ability to build positive relationships with pupils, parents, and colleagues.
This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of young people.
Wishmore Cross Academy provides a supportive and tailored environment for boys aged 7 to 16 with social, emotional, and mental health challenges. With a capacity of 82 pupils, the school maintains small class sizes, allowing for close, individualized attention. The campus features expansive grounds, including a school field and orchard, home to the 'Tree for Life' project. Facilities also include a therapy suite staffed by a play therapist, speech and language therapist, and occupational therapist, as well as a soft play zone, climbing wall, and sensory spaces to help students regulate and engage in learning.
Ready to apply? Get in touch here. We can't wait to hear from you.
The role is due to commence as soon as possible. This is a full time, permanent position.
Closing date: Sunday 24th November 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Commitment to safeguarding
Prior to employment all staff (paid or voluntary) are DBS checked for their suitability to work with children and young people. For more information on the Disclosure Barring Service, please click the link below.
Once the member of staff joins our school, they complete online Safeguarding training provided by Educare and sign an online AET Code of Conduct. Refresher training is provided every academic year by either one of the safeguarding team or an outside provider.
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 Wishmore Cross Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 16
- School size
- 65 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Wishmore Cross Academy website (opens in new tab)
Wishmore Cross is a school for boys aged 7 - 16, and all of our pupils have EHCPs (Educational Health and Care Plans) which detail their Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs (SEMH).
We work as a school to understand our pupils, their diagnosed and hidden needs, educate ourselves and them around these needs; and support our pupils to find their best, stable selves so that they can function independently and achieve in the world.
Our pupils may have histories of a difficult engagement with education, and our staff team works tirelessly to build secure, key worker relationships, so that we can change our pupils’ ideas of what their schooling can and should be like.
We are a school undergoing transformation and change, and are looking forward to a site that has been completely redecorated, a site that provides for our pupils sensory, occupational therapy and mental health needs, and a site that stimulates them to engage and learn in various ways.
We also work with our Local Authority to support the speech, language and communication needs that are associated with our pupils’ SEMH needs - hoping that we will teach our children to be able to tell us how they feel, understand others’ perspectives and relearn how to manage themselves and their actions when their emotions feel overwhelming.
A fair proportion of our school body joins us at Year 6 and stays with us till Year 11, but we also take in-year admissions in partnership with our Local Authority (Surrey County Council), working to make these transitions as smooth as can be.
We look forward to building more partnerships with our parents and families, within our local community and with borough and county educational services, so that our pupils can make the most of their school years.
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