Role: Hub Coordinator
Academy: Outwood Alternative Provision Eston
Start date: As soon as possible
Actual salary: £24,872 to £25,691 per annum.
Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, term time only plus 5 PD days.
Welcome from the Principal:
Thank you for your interest in this vacancy at Outwood Alternative Provision Eston. We are a unique centre providing a safe and nurturing environment for vulnerable students who exhibit challenging behaviours and are at risk of exclusion. Our dedicated staff is passionate about providing bespoke, additional support to ensure behavioural, social, emotional, or mental health challenges are never a barrier to success.
With smaller class sizes and an adapted curriculum, we prioritize personal development and student well-being without compromising academic progress. We hold unconditional positive regard for our students, considering strong professional relationships as our first intervention. Our goal is to ensure all students succeed and transition to their next stage with confidence and self-belief.
If you believe every student deserves a champion and share The Outwood vision of raising standards and transforming lives, we would be delighted to welcome you to our team.
About the role:
We wish to appoint a Hub Coordinator to promote, organise and lead a range of opportunities for our underachieving, disaffected and vulnerable students. Focusing on raising aspirations, promoting ambition, re-engaging in education, closing gaps in academic performance and ultimately reintegrating back to mainstream education. The Hub Coordinator will build and maintain excellent relationships with students as well as parents, carers and third party agencies, in order to put students first and increase their chances of success in and beyond the centre.
As a Hub Coordinator you must have the ability to work with students and have a real interest in the issues faced by the students. You will monitor and support all students in the cohort, both academically and behaviourally. You will work closely with the Leadership Team on improving student behaviour, attendance and outcomes. Day to day, you will work with students to help them to prepare for a return to mainstream provision.
The successful candidate needs to be extremely well organised, IT literate and have excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Applicants should have experience of working in a school environment and have a suitable level of knowledge around the issues affecting young people in the local communities.
The successful candidate must have Level 2 qualifications in English and Maths or equivalent.
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When completing your application, please give due regard to the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Please note that all of the essential criteria listed on the Person Specification will be used to shortlist candidates for interview. If you do not demonstrate and/or evidence that you meet all of the essential criteria elements, you will not be selected for an interview.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS - WHAT DO WE OFFER AS AN EMPLOYER?
Outwood Grange Academies Trust supports colleagues by funding an extensive range of accredited training courses and apprenticeship opportunities up to Masters level. We also offer:
Your starting salary with annual increments plus inflation linked increases. The starting salary within the grade advertised will be dependent upon your experience. You will also receive:
* A comprehensive induction and training process
* Automatic enrolment into an increasingly rare and valuable defined Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates
* Flexible family friendly policies from day one
* Enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period
* Holidays: A minimum of 25 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service)
* A range of working patterns are available dependant upon the role
Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:
* Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
* Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
* Legal guidance
* Financial guidance and debt counselling
* Child and dependent care support and advice
* Support for managers
We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing strategy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:
* Free onsite parking
* Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
* Access to various discount sites
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
We reserve the right to close advertisements early. Advertisements will therefore close at 12 noon, either on the advertised closing date, or the day the decision has been taken to close the advertisement early.
To find out more about working for Outwood and to read a message from our CEO please Click Here
Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) is an education charity and not-for-profit sponsor of primary, junior and secondary academies. We are a dynamic organisation, recognised nationally as one of the highest performing family of schools in the North of England, and we currently sponsor over 40 schools.
Our educational blueprint has been developed through leading and supporting schools over many years.
We have used this successful blueprint to sponsor academies and have a transformational effect on children's life chances within very quick timescales.
We feel strongly that academies should enhance the education provision of the community they serve, in addition to driving up standards and playing a central role in regeneration. This is because we believe that improving the life chances of young people is essential to developing a strong local and national economy.
We are now comprised of over 40 schools who work together to ensure that all children, irrespective of their starting point, receive an excellent education. We pride ourselves on meeting the needs of children in our care, including the most vulnerable or challenging.