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  • Job start date

    4 November 2024

  • Closing date

    16 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    30 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 35 hours per week during term time only Monday to Friday

Contract type

Fixed term - 12 months

Pay scale

NJC Scale 3, spine points 5 or 6 determined after successful interview

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

  • Experience of and interest in working with students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues

  • Minimum GCSE grade C or above, or 4-9, or functional skills level 2 in Maths and English

  • Qualifications in, or willingness to work toward accreditation of, working with students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to handle situations with tact and sensitivity involving staff and students

  • Excellent behaviour management skills

  • Ability to manage and prioritise workload

  • Effective use of ICT to support learning

  • Understanding of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation

  • Demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion

General

  • Level 4 Award in SEMH would be helpful for this post

  • General understanding of national curriculum and other basic learning programmes/strategies

  • Basic understanding of child development and learning

  • Ability to identify learning needs

  • Ability to scaffold work, in particular in English and Maths

  • Display a commitment and an ability to contribute to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people

  • Work as part of a team

  • Demonstrate personal integrity

  • Work to support the aims and ethos of the school

  • Flexibility in the approach to work and the demands of the post

  • Willingness to undertake professional development.


What the school offers its staff

We want an educational experience which provides excellence for - and expects it from - everyone. We know that this is best achieved in a school where:

  • the offer is broad, balanced, inclusive, enriching and effective in meeting the needs of young people;

  • staff and students are supported and challenged to be the best versions of themselves;

  • relationships are positive, well established and healthy;

  • practice is based on evidence and underpinned by the notion that ‘we can always do better’;

  • a range of employee benefits including a choice of two bicycle schemes.

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.

CVs are not accepted.

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.
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About Van Gogh Primary

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
View all Primaryjobs
School size
304 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11

School location

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