Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.
We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.
Waythrough Education Centre
Waythrough's Education Centre is a thriving, ambitious, exciting and innovative place to work! Our holistic education programmes are highly effective at supporting our learners to make progress from their starting points, which for many of our cohort is considerable.
Summary of role
As a Waythrough Teaching Assistant within this role you will:
1. Plan and deliver a selection of interventions to small groups of learners
2. Work with class teachers to raise the attainment of learners
3. Promote learners’ independence, self-esteem and social inclusion
4. Provide support to learners, individually or in groups, so they can access the curriculum, engage in learning and experience a sense of achievement
5. Support learners with Educational Health Care Plans, in line with their educational programmes.
6. Contribute to effective assessment and planning by supporting the monitoring, recording and reporting of learner performance and progress as required
7. Use allocated time to devise clearly structured activities that interest and motivate learners and progress their learning
8. Provide cover for colleagues when required
9. Provide high quality learning resources for all students through the use of adaptations and differentiation
10. Liaise with parents/carers/outside agencies where appropriate
11. Communicate their knowledge and understanding of learners to other school staff and education, health and social care professionals, so that informed decision making can take place on intervention and provision
12. Be responsible for safeguarding learners and adhering to Waythrough's Safeguarding policies.
13. Provide our learners with learning opportunities that aspire to be outstanding and adhere to those standards within the common inspection framework.
Safeguarding at Waythrough
Waythrough is committed to safeguard and protect all children and adults we come into contact with in the course of our work. We commit to:
* Uphold our duty to protect individual children identified as either suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm as a result of abuse or neglect
* Ensure that all concerns and allegations of abuse are taken seriously and responded to appropriately
* Work with service users in ways that are transparent and supportive, and to keep them informed of our policies and procedures.
* Use best practice in the recruitment and training of workers, to ensure that we recruit workers with the skills and knowledge to provide high quality support to our service users.
* Ensure that all workers have access to high quality induction, training, and supervision.
* Work in partnership with colleagues in Social Care and the Police to ensure a prompt and effective response is provided to children at risk of harm
* Ensure that no child or group of children will be treated any less favourably than others. We believe that all children without exception have the right to protection from abuse regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.
* Treat safeguarding as a priority that is discussed within Waythrough at every level from team to Board
This post requires regulated activity with children and therefore will require an Enhanced DBS check with both children and adults barred list information. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or adults.
Please note that a personal statement providing detailed evidence of skills and experience as required within the job description is compulsory in order to be considered for the role.
What can Waythrough offer you…
* Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
* Annual leave purchase scheme
* Enhanced occupational sick pay
* Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
* Death in service benefit
* Free Will writing
* Eyecare vouchers
* Blue light card discount
* Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
* Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies
* Happy, Healthy You! – our wellbeing offers for our workforce
* Employee Assist Programme and Waythrough Support Networks
Waythrough is an equal opportunities employer. We value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for us, we want to hear from you. We also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use. If you require support with your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at people.recruitment@waythrough.org.uk.
Salary Period: Vacancy Salary Range 24,020-30,790
DBS Requirement: Enhanced Adult/Child Barred
Driving licence required for role? Yes
Applications Close Date: 30 Jan 2025
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