Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Academic Instructor
The Winstanley School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3BDDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 May 2024 at 9am
Date listed
26 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other teaching support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: 37 hours per week, term time plus one week.
Contract type
- Fixed term - Required for 1 year in the first instance
Pay scale
- Grade 8 - 10
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential
Good numeracy and literacy skills - GCSE grade C or equivalent in English and Maths
Experience of working with a range of ages and abilities across KS2 – kS4
Ability to deliver academic instruction to KS3/ KS4 level in a variety of subjects
Evidence of working with young people in a pastoral role and the needs of SEMH pupils.
Understanding of the importance of supportive student/teacher relationships within a SEMH Specialist setting
Ability to communicate effectively with young people and their families
Ability to work well within a team
Good organisational skills
Self-motivated, ability to work independently
Good ICT skills.
Willingness to develop and attend training as necessary e.g. Team Teach de-escalation training
Ability to work under pressure and react calmly to confrontation
Desirable
A levels and Degree
Knowledge of KS2 to KS4 curriculum content
Experience of working in a special school setting
Qualification / specialism or interest to work within a SEMH setting
Evidence of effective relationships with young people in a SEMH setting
Evidence of good working relations with a range of people
Evidence of organisational ability
Recent ICT qualification, Team Teach etc.
Evidence of meeting deadlines and ability to prioritise
What the school offers its staff
Putting your trust in our Trust
We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.
Personal Improvement Plan
versus Performance Management
Instead of the usual performance management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.
Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:
- providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
- recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
- providing a supportive workplace culture where healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged
We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme. Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.
Presumed Professionalism
We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other.We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.
Development
of Professional Capital and Excellence
As a Trust, we always look to invest in our staff and pride ourselves on our ‘home grown talent’.We pride ourselves on this and believe this has the biggest impact on how our staff understand their communities and make a difference to the lives of our young people.
Quite simply, our aim is to employ people who match our ethos and values and enable them to truly collaborate with colleagues across the Trust so that they are satisfied professionally. We provide outstanding training pathways, which draw on excellence both within and outside of our Trust to enable you to build your professional capital.
Examples of the many opportunities we encourage staff to take up externally include:
- The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
- The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
- The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML)
- The Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP)
- Initial Teacher Training (ITT)
Pathways are available at apprenticeship level, ECT, aspiring middle leader, Lead Practitioner and aspiring senior leader level. Some of these courses are led by staff within the Trust and others, are externally accredited. In addition, the Trust provides the opportunity of becoming an associate SLT member, enabling middle leaders to gain insight and experience of leadership at the highest level within a school.
Support staff have their own Personal Improvement Plan that they use as a tool to create a bespoke professional development plan. All support staff also receive Coaching and training opportunities, in order to help them feel empowered and in charge of their own development.
Across the Trust, we pride ourselves on equal opportunities for all staff, irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
Great access to progression and leadership responsibility
Further evidence of our investment in ‘home grown talent’ is that 86% of our TLR holders have been internal appointments. We have clear professional progression pathways within the CPD offered throughout the year at all levels within the Trust.
Commitment to safeguarding
‘’LiFE Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check and an online search.’’
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to shambleton@winstanleyschool.org.uk
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Winstanley School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 622 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Winstanley School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- shambleton@winstanleyschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0116 2898688
The Winstanley School is an 11-16 Leicestershire school situated in the heart of the Braunstone Town community. The school is part of the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust of which Bosworth Academy is the lead institution.
Arranging a visit to The Winstanley School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email shambleton@winstanleyschool.org.uk.
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