Main area Progress Support Worker Grade NHS AfC: Band 4 Contract Permanent: Term Time only Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Term Time only) Job ref 260-TP-975
Employer Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Gloucester House, Tavistock Children’s Day Unit Town London Salary £33,094 - £36,195 PA Inclusive of HCAS - Term Time Salary period Yearly Closing 09/09/2025 23:59
Progress Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 4
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
To work alongside other staff members to support the educational, emotional, social and welfare needs of the children in Gloucester House.
To support the children’s academic progress alongside their social and emotional progress.
To be an active part of supporting the children’s identity as learners and in ensuring they progress from baseline levels.
To guide the experience of learning and education as a therapeutic tool.
To take an active role working through barriers to learning. To assist in the development and maintenance of an integrated educational and therapeutic milieu, and to promote a safe and secure environment.
Main duties of the job
To work with individuals/groups of children to support them to progress in academic learning and social and emotional development.
This may be through:
* Supporting classroom management in collaboration with the teacher and other members of the class team.
* Recognising barriers to learning and implement ‘My Strategies’ and to address this under the guidance of the class teacher and with other professionals.
* Implementing programmes and delivering specific pieces of work with letters and sounds / specific educational support programmes, under the guidance of the teacher or set by other professionals e.g. SALT/OT/EP.
* Being aware of the children’s academic levels and specific learning needs through knowing Integrated Care Plan (ICP) targets and Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) objectives.
* To be fully informed of and to implement Integrated Care Plans in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team.
* To develop children’s ability to develop as ‘learners’ a good understanding of the children’s learning abilities, and to support the working through of any difficulties relating to educational development and supporting access to the curriculum.
* To take a lead role in planning and delivering specific programmes and lessons as appropriate: these may be subject-based, or may relate more generally to the social and personal development of children in Gloucester House.
Working for our organisation
Gloucester House forms part of the Specialist Schools Service of the Tavistock Clinic and is managed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. It is a specialist school and CAMHS team which provides education and clinical services for up to 21 pupils aged 5-14 years who have social, emotional and mental health difficulties, often alongside other learning difficulties such as specific language or literacy difficulties and sometimes more general learning difficulties. Baseline records show that all pupils are underachieving when they start at the Gloucester House. Many of the pupils who attend are from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, some of whom have experienced severe deprivation or trauma/abuse in their early lives. The pupils come from both inner and outer London boroughs.
Gloucester House aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment and an effectively integrated educational and therapeutic approach in order to promote the overall development of primary age and early secondary pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full responsibilities and details.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GCSE (or equivalent) in English, Maths and Science
* Achieved either the King’s Scout Award / Queen’s Scout Award, Queen’s Guide Award, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, participated in the National Citizen Service or obtained other qualifications showing broad and balanced skills.
* Additional training or professional learning in teaching or supporting young people in school (such as NVQ)
* Additional training or professional learning in supporting young people with complex needs or SEMH
* Higher degree or training
Experience
* Experience working with young people in an educational/vocational/clinical setting
* Experience of working with children with social, emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.
* Experience leading/facilitating small group learning activities in a formal or informal educational setting (i.e. school, Scouts, religious groups, charity work, placements, youth clubs)
* Experience of working with young people with developmental trauma
* Experience of supporting the delivery of phonics and/or supporting the teaching of early literacy/numeracy skills
Skills
* Able to deliver engaging and motivating learning activities
* Able to relate to young people with SEMH needs
* Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* An understanding of child protection and safeguarding
* Ability to celebrate equity, diversity and inclusion in practice
* Able to use reflective practice effectively to help manage the considerable emotional impact of working at GH.
* Ability to use initiative and prioritise time efficiently
* Knowledge of specific strategies to support learning
* Knowledge of strategies to support emotional regulation (i.e. Zones of Regulation, Emotional Literacy, PACE)
* Experience of working with young people to develop understanding of individual difference (for example work on race equity, LGBT+ inclusion, neurodivergence)
Personal Qualities
* An accepting, compassionate attitude towards others
* Empathic therapeutic presence and curiosity
* Emotionally robust, with an ability to stay stable under stress
* Understanding of your own lived experience and the relevance in work with young people with SEMH needs
* A good ability to play
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.
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Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
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PLEASE NOTE:
* The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
* Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.
*Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.
* Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date
* In submitting an application form, you authorise theTavistockand Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Lucy Kemp Job title Team Operational Manager Email address Lkemp@tavi-port.nhs.uk Additional information
Should you have any questions around the working pattern or/and salary, please contact Lucy Kemp on the above email.
Please contact us by email in the first instance, we will contact you back by telephone is required.
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