Pastoral Support Worker
Orion Academy, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6DQ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
15 July 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
1 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32 hours per week, 38 weeks per year, term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Grade 9, Actual Annual Salary: £23,729.57 to £25,769.92
What skills and experience we're looking for
Professional Qualifications
- Level 2 qualifications or equivalent
Experience
- Experience of working with children and young people in an educational or therapeutic context
- Experience of working with children and young people in 1:1 and group situations
- Experience of liaising with external professionals and agencies
- Experience in preparing and delivering learning activities to children and young people
Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to respond flexibly to situations and to demonstrate good judgement
- Knowledge of or willingness and ability to be trained in Team Teach (restrictive physical interventions RPI)
- Resilient personality with the ability to work with children and young people who demonstrate challenging behaviour
- Ability to comprehend and observe the Academy’s policies and procedures as well as relevant legislation
- Ability to engage with academic research and communicate findings at a professional level
- Understanding of child development and learning
What the school offers its staff
Career Progression
- Be a key member of a friendly and supportive staff team who are dedicated to achieving the best for every one of our pupils
- Participate in high quality professional development opportunities which are tailored to your needs and to your career aspirations
- Develop your career in The Gallery Trust, an expanding and successful organisation which offers opportunities for progression, secondments and collaborative working with colleagues across our schools
Financial
- Competitive salaries for teaching and support staff based on School Teacher Pay and Conditions Document and the NJC Green Book
- Perkbox membership
- Access to LGPS pension linked to salary life assurance
- Contribution towards glasses and eye tests for DSE use
- Salary sacrifice schemes, including cycle to work
Well being
- 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance
- Excellent induction processes, and strong line management structures to promote your well being at work
- A culture which is open to employee ideas and encourages open dialogue
- Regular staff surveys to gain feedback on well being and to drive improvements
- The opportunity to join colleagues for social events
- Family friendly policies, which promote your well being
- The opportunity to work in a new, purpose-built school building, which offers an exciting environment in which to teach and learn, located just a short drive from Oxford’s ring road
- Free car parking and cycle storage
- On-site catering
Commitment to safeguarding
The Gallery Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment with The Gallery Trust is subject to verification of ID and qualifications, satisfactory evidence of the right to work in the UK, health clearance, and Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check. The Gallery Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from candidates from all ethnic and community backgrounds.
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About Orion Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 10 to 18
- School size
- 96 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 10 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Orion Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@orionacademy.co.uk
Orion Academy currently offers places to 94 students, and the roll of the school will rise steadily over the next three years to cater for 108 students, aged from 10 to 18 years. Students attend from throughout the county, and transfer from our SEND feeder school, Northern House Academy, and from mainstream primary and secondary schools. All students who attend Orion Academy have an Education, Health and Care Plan, which describes their special needs and drives their educational provision.
Students are taught through a differentiated and bespoke curriculum designed to enhance their personal and social development and academic achievement. We have a strong intent to ensure our students leave with the personal characteristics to thrive in their communities. Classes are taught in stages, not necessarily age, allowing innovation and creative approaches to teaching and learning. The Academy provides support for our students with social and emotional needs through our Academy Community Learning Team, which consists of youth workers, therapeutic and pastoral workers.
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