22 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    6 January 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    4 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 36 hours per week – term time only

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

: Grade Support Staff 5/6 £31,069 - £35,444 (£26,604.35 - £30,350.66) PRO RATA)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Responsibilities:

  • Keep written records of individual students, log communication and update risk assessments as appropriate
  • Manage a caseload of students, ensuring each student receives 1:1 mentoring and emotional regulation sessions to discuss their emotional and social behaviour progress
  • Track the emotional regulation and behavioural progress of students using the available data and monitor the impact of interventions, sharing this with the MATCo/ SENDCo and/or other relevant professionals
  • Establish therapeutic relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs. Providing 1:1 support via reflective and restorative practice

Key Requirements:

  • GCSE grade C or Level 2 equivalent functional skills in English and Maths
  • Excellent classroom and behaviour management skills.
  • An ability to understand the principles of learning processes and in particular barriers to learning

The ability to recognise and be sensitive to the individual needs of students

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.


What the school offers its staff

The PRIDE Academy is part of Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust, an established family of specialist academies and college centres that provide for over 1500 pupils and students with a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs. To find out more about us, and what makes us a special place to work please visit https://www.ohcat.org/work-for-us/

Rewards & Benefits

OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and there are many benefits to

embarking on your career with us. In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes:

  • Enhanced parental leave schemes
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loans
  • Employee referral scheme
  • Discounted gym membership subscription including digital fitness
  • Comprehensive training and development
  • Access to counselling advice and support via Health Assured (our employee assistance programme)
  • Commitment to wellbeing supported by our occupational health service and mental-health first aiders
  • Scope for career progression across eight college centres, 14 academy schools and shared services team
  • Generous annual leave and flexible working schemes in addition to bank and public holidays and a Christmas closure period
  • As part of your contract of employment you will enrolled into a pension scheme, the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS) both of which have life cover and financial protection for your family.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About The PRIDE Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 19
School size
91 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Phone number
02038977077

Arranging a visit to The PRIDE Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@orchardhill.ac.uk.

School location

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