Primary Outreach Support Worker

North Herts Education Support Centre, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 3LY

Deadline is today

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  24 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,409.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary pro rata - £18,380. Business travel mileage paid.

Primary Outreach Support Worker job summary

Primary Outreach Support Worker

Are you able to work flexibly and independently? Do you have a good sense of humour and boundless energy? If yes, then there is a unique opportunity for you to join our dedicated and enthusiastic team at North Herts Education Support Centre, an “Outstanding” Pupil Referral Unit.

An opportunity has arisen here, within North Herts Primary Support Services, for a Support Worker to provide outreach support for ‘high needs’ pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties in North Herts Primary Schools.

This role requires staff to work 1:1 with pupils delivering an SEMH curriculum, supporting families and schools. You would need to work collaboratively with other professionals, with a multi-agency approach to create positive long term change.

This is a 1-year contract (in the first instance, with the potential to be extended) for a commission service post for 5 days per week (Maximum 30 hours) at H5.9. The post to start ASAP, or within a candidate’s notice period.

The appointed candidate could potentially work in any of the North Herts Primary Schools in the Royston, Baldock and Letchworth Partnership areas and therefore access to own transport is essential.

We offer a friendly supportive environment in which we are continually developing and striving for excellence, through a commitment to continuing professional development.

Applicants are strongly recommended to visit the Centre, prior to interview, by appointment only. Please note applicants who do not receive confirmation of an interview have been unsuccessful.

The Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced check from the Disclosure and Barring Service to comply with the current national regulations. North Herts ESC is an Equal Opportunities employer.

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The closing time and date is: 8am Tuesday, 22nd April 2025

Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by end of day, 22nd April 2025

Interview date: Week commencing the 28th April 2025

Interviews will take place ASAP.

’Short Listed candidates are subject to an online search’

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 North Herts Education Support Centre

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 1 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: North Herts Education Support Centre website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/north-herts-education-support-centre

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