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Psychometric Assessor and Intervention Specialist
The Laurus Trust, Cheadle, SK8 7JY15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
February 2025
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 30 hours per week Term Time Only basis.
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £23,370 - £26,307
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an experienced and knowledgeable Psychometric Assessor and Intervention Specialist to join our growing team. In this rewarding role, you will lead and coordinate the process for identifying students who need additional support across for exams to ensure that they receive appropriate exam access arrangements and intervention to support their specific needs. You will work alongside the Pastoral, SEND and Exams teams to ensure that they remain effective in identifying and implementing appropriate exam concessions.
Here at the Laurus Trust we are able to provide a cutting-edge SEND provision that has a positive impact on our young people, and we are currently looking to recruit caring and dedicated individuals to join our SEND team. You will play a vital role in enhancing pupils/students progress whilst promoting their independence, self-esteem and social inclusion. A comprehensive offer of professional learning is in place and we ensure that all schools have designated work spaces for staff. A broad range of training in SEND is in place across all our schools focus on whole school SEND issues as well as specific training for SEND teams.
This position is contracted on a 30 hours per week Term Time Only basis. This means you will mainly work when the school is open to pupils and will not need to work during the school holidays unless the contract requires you to do so. In total you will be in work for a minimum of 37 out of 52 weeks.
Job Purpose
- Work collaboratively with Pastoral and SEND teams to develop their understanding of how to appropriately identify students in need of access arrangements by providing effective training and guidance.
- Lead and develop a clear strategy for assessing students for exam access arrangements across the school.
- Ensure that each student with an access arrangement has the appropriate evidence in place to illustrate a history of need
Key Skills and Experiences
- Relevant Level 7 qualification Specialist Assessor/CPT3A which meets JCQ regulations.
- Experience of working with young people with additional needs either in a residential or working environment.
- Experience of working in a school classroom environment with SEN students
What the school offers its staff
Across our Trust we believe that all students and pupils, regardless of background or circumstance, have the right to a high-quality academic education.All of our schoolsare Unashamedly Academic and behaviour in our schools is exemplary.
The Laurus Trust is continually growing, ourfamily of schoolsnow includes five primary Schools, six high Schools, and four Sixth Forms. In September 2024, the Trust opened Crown Street Primary School – the first new primary school to be built in Manchester City Centre in over twenty years and Laurus Grace, a small school catering for secondary students with significant social, emotional and mental health needs.
At all schools across the Trust we place great importance on our core purpose of teaching and learning, and on supporting students and pupils in developing the knowledge, attitudes, skills and habits which will enable them to flourish and succeed.
We welcome interest from forward-thinking, motivated and hard-working individuals who wish to share in our success. In return, we will provideexcellent benefits, a welcoming andpositive working environmentand genuine opportunities forcontinuous progression.
Linda Magrath OBE -Chief Executive of the Laurus Trust
Flexible working opportunities
To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. At the Laurus Trust, we value the significance of a healthy work/life balance for our employees. Achieving a better balance can boost motivation and morale, lower stress levels, enhance performance and productivity, and make job opportunities more inclusive. Whenever feasible, we are committed to offering flexible arrangements from the very start, which could include options like part-time roles, term-time working, Job-sharing and compressed hours.
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
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About The Laurus Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@laurustrust.co.uk
The Laurus Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), committed to providing exceptional academic education to its family of schools across Stockport, Manchester, Tameside, and Cheshire East. Schools under the Laurus Trust consistently achieve outstanding results through a relentless pursuit of excellence and a dedication to student success.
Cheadle Hulme High School is the founding school of the Laurus Trust and was rated ‘Outstanding’ in the school’s last inspection and regularly features in the The Times and The Sunday Times Parent Power listing. The Trust’s commitment to excellence is evident not only at its founding school, but also in the outstanding achievements of Laurus Ryecroft, Laurus Cheadle Hulme, Didsbury High School, and Gorsey Bank Primary School – all receiving the top rating from Ofsted in their most recent inspections.
The Laurus Trust is continually growing, managing a comprehensive network of four primary schools, six high schools, and four established Sixth Forms. Their commitment to growth continues in September 2024 with the opening of Crown Street Primary School, the first new primary school in Manchester City Centre in nearly two decades.
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