The Provision
Through the extensive collaborative approach with our schools across the Trust we are able to highlight challenges and develop creative responses to positively impact our children and school communities. Throughout the country we are experiencing a significant increase in the number of young people with a range of challenges in successfully accessing the mainstream curriculum in KS3.
The vision of this provision is to reignite the dreams and aspirations of students who have disconnected with mainstream school. Through a creative personalised curriculum students will explore their futures while developing the skills and attributes to make their aspirations a reality. Two highly experienced specialist SEND Teachers have been appointed and we are now seeking a Sport and Well Being Specialist to enhance our offer further by incorporating the life changing capacity Sport has as a vehicle to drive personal development and wellbeing. The provision will also provide professional therapeutic support that will allow students and teachers to work in partnership to develop a strategic approach supporting positive reintegration back into our mainstream host schools with bespoke guidance reports for each child on completion of the placement.
The Role
This is a potentially career defining role for the right candidate. The Trust are committed in providing a highly ambitious and inclusive provision for our young people that will require candidates who share that vision and can evidence the skill, creativity and commitment to implement this unique provision. The location of the provision will adjoin our Trust office site based at Southport College and will provide unique access to stakeholders committed to supporting this ambitious provision.
Role overview
* To support curriculum education and academic development: with high impact strategies such as sensory circuits and other creative empowering well-being interventions.
* To ensure sustainable reintegration: a programme of reintegration to support phased return back into the main school setting, offering reduced timetables, partial timetables and guided support once back in the main school setting.
* Model restorative conversations and scaffold relationships to enhance communication skills via well planned specialist sport and wellbeing interventions discreetly planned into the curriculum.
* Assess the needs of pupils and use detailed knowledge and specialist skills to support pupil learning in conjunction with teaching staff.
* Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement in conjunction with teaching staff.
* To maintain appropriate records and track student progress in terms of mental health and wellbeing interventions in conjunction with teaching staff.
* Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals, in liaison with host schools Progress Leaders, to support achievement and progress of pupils.
* Share knowledge and best practices of experience in sports development, school’s sport programmes, and health promotion or youth/adult activities across the trust.
* To liaise with the curriculum leaders for Physical Education across the trust to ensure that the interventions planned supports and compliments the key objectives identified by all trust schools.
* Assist with the planning of opportunities for pupils to learn in out of school contexts, according to school policies and procedures and within working hours in collaboration with teaching staff.
* To support and monitor attendance to the provision and identify barriers to attendance in conjunction with all Beacon Initiatives staff.
* Under the direction of teaching staff, agree challenging targets and evaluate and adjust lesson/work plans as appropriate within agreed systems of supervision.
* Be responsible for keeping and updating records in agreed format with teaching staff, contributing to reviews of systems/records as requested.
* Administer and assess/mark some tests / quizzes and accurately record achievement/progress and invigilate exams/tests under the supervision and direction of teaching staff.
* Support all school policies consistently.
* Collaborate with Progress and Pastoral Leaders, parents and the SEND team to support reintegration plans for students to host schools.
* Create integration plans and follow up with students after their time in the provision.
* Monitor and evaluate the impact of reintegration.
* To work strategically with the team to devise and maintain timetables for students accessing the provision.
* To meet with students and stakeholders to support smooth transition into the provision in collaboration with teaching staff.
* Comply with service policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection. Report all concerns to the appropriate person (as named in the policy concerned).
* Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals, in liaison with teachers, to support achievement and progress of pupils taking the initiative to develop appropriate multiagency approaches.
* Attend and participate in regular meetings as appropriate.
* To communicate effectively with the parents/carers of students as appropriate.
* To communicate and co-operate with external agencies supporting our students and their families.
* To follow agreed systems for communications in the school.
* To maintain a positive, safe environment that supports learning in which students feel secure and confident.
* To undertake relevant and appropriate CPD identified in the Service Development Plan and through performance management.
* To participate fully in the activities of the Trust, to support its distinctive vision and ethos and to encourage all staff and students to follow this example.
* To behave, dress and act as a positive role model and representative of the Trust in all situations when liaising with stakeholders and community representatives.
* To treat each other courteously and professionally, to take and seek advice and to always be supportive and aware of the needs of colleagues.
* To comply with the school’s Health and Safety policy and undertake risk assessments as appropriate.
This is not a comprehensive list of all tasks which may be required of the post-holder. It is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the work to be undertaken, commensurate with the grade.