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Study Support Manager

Blue Coat Church of England Academy, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 2ND

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Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
15 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
4 July 2024

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time: 35 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: NJC 24-28 dependant on experience

What skills and experience we're looking for

Could you inspire, challenge and motivate sixth form students? Could you support students to become effective independent learners?

Could you develop the Learning Resource Centre as a ‘Learning to Learn’ and a ‘Reading for Pleasure’ centre for all students? If so this could be the job for you.

We are seeking to appoint a Study Support Manager to support the work of our excellent teams in the Sixth Form and the English Department. This is a new role and has scope to develop further in the future.

The successful candidate will play a key role to provide high quality academic mentoring to post 16 students within the Academy and to monitor and evaluate its impact. Developing and implementing strategies which contribute towards effective learning, behaviour and achievement. This role will combine working to support students with the proactive development of the Learning Resource Centre (library) as a positive working environment as well as supporting the development of reading for all students. We require staff who are excited by this opportunity and who are ready to embrace this challenge, supporting us in delivering a great local school for our local community. For all of us, staff, Governors, children and parents, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference to students’ lives.

What the school offers its staff

The school has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, most recently in January 2023:

“Teachers adapt the curriculum and their teaching resources to meet the needs of all pupils effectively. They do this particularly well for pupils with SEND. The teaching resources are carefully designed and selected so that pupils can understand and remember more over time. Teachers routinely check pupils’ understanding. When pupils do not understand the work, teachers adapt their lessons and reteach.”

Blue Coat Church of England Academy is one of the oldest educational establishments in Walsall, is well-respected and valued by the community it serves. We operate on a very collaborative approach to school improvement working with a range of other schools and nationally recognised trainers. The school is very proud of the family ethos which pervades all aspects of its work, which is grounded in Christian values. The school has recently been awarded the Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award, demonstrating our commitment to embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into our ethos and curriculum.

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.