Stroud
£ - £ per annum
36.0hrs per week
November 25
ESS Employment Ltd are looking to recruit a Learning coach to join our client based locally near Stroud. Our client aims to ensure that children and young people facing educational barriers can belong to school communities where they can learn, grow, and thrive Description
LOCATION: Nr Stroud (own transport is required)
HOURS: Monday to Friday -8.45am-3.15pm (36hrs a week)
START DATE: ASAP
PAY: £20, - £23, (term time is 39 weeks plus 5.6 weeks paid holiday)
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Temporary to Permanent/ Straight Permanent
Nailsworth Office:
Vacancy - Learning Coach
ESS Employment Ltd are looking to recruit a Learning coach to join our client based locally near Stroud. Our client aims to ensure that children and young people facing educational barriers can belong to school communities where they can learn, grow, and thrive
Our clients mission
•Educational mission is, therefore, to offer a provision tailored for every student, to both:
•Build their capacity to engage in life beyond school and enjoy a purposeful future.
Support them in achieving meaningful qualifications that prepare them to become independent adults and valued members of their community, contributing to the local economy as part of a skilled workforce.
Background
•Our clients Learning students, often, have a continual lived experience of complex additional needs and adverse childhood experiences, in and outside of school, at home and in the community. In this context, our client recognises that Education Provisions, are often the right place at the right time to deliver and/or facilitate the support that children and young people need, as part of an integrated Local Authority offer.
•Our client delivers learning in a variety of settings—including community locations, specialist provisions, students’ homes, and schools—using high levels of academic and developmental support. Their curriculum is broad and engaging, distinguished not by its content but by its personalised delivery. Each student’s programme is tailored to their interests, needs, and aspirations, ensuring they gain the skills and accreditations needed to thrive in school and beyond.
•Their practice is grounded in an evidence-based, multi-disciplinary approach that offers holistic support. They foster inclusive school communities that use Restorative Practices and Trauma-Informed Approaches to understand and teach behaviour. Staff act as emotionally available, responsive adults, adapting to both students’ inherent needs and the challenges they face in and outside of school.
Key responsibilities:
•Act as keyworker and point of contact for parents and carers.
•Facilitate pastoral and academic sessions and bespoke interventions with students on school site, offsite venues and/ or the home address.
•Lead pre-planned 1-2-1 sessions in school and various community venues
Core
•Uphold the vision and values of our client
•Adhere to all school policies and procedures.
•Be a part of the collegiate responsibility of the school.
•Be a positive role model adult.
•Build positive, trusted and safe relationships with students and colleagues.
•Hold high aspirations and expectations for every child.
•Adhere to our clients Staff non-negotiables:
•Self-Regulate.
•Remember it’s not about you.
•Model our clients’ expectations.
•Protect, Act, Engage.
•Be Kind.
•Be PACE-ful, show signs of safety.
•Hold each other to account.
•Seek support.
Students
•Be an advocate for the child, supporting them to identify and communicate needs
•Work one-to -one and in small groups with students to engage them in education, through activities and lessons and at times in off-site venues and/or the home address
•Support delivery of a bespoke curriculum
•Support the purposeful journey of students in school, from admissions, through their school experience, to their transition and next steps Post 16
•Act as keyworker for allocated students, advocating for them and embedding positive relationships with other agencies involved.
•Understand the importance of good attendance and support students to achieve it, following the school’s Attendance Policy.
•Support compliance with the Home-School agreement
•Ensure accurate recording on school management information systems
•Liaise with Teachers and SENCo to support with matters relating to students’ access arrangements.
Community
•Liaison with parents, carers and external agencies, ensuring that all data is validated and reports to parents and other stakeholders are accurate and meaningful.
•Produce and provide relevant reports to all stakeholders as necessary.
•Work relationally alongside colleagues and other professionals
Environment
•Be part of a safe, stimulating, and consistent environment for learning
•Role model the care and upkeep of on-site and off-site facilities
•Role model sustainability awareness and ethical thinking
•Safeguarding
•Ensure children are always safe
•Be aware of and comply with policies, procedures and processes relating to child protection, health & safety and security, confidentiality and data protection.
•Use CPOMS accurately, effectively and consistently
Health and Safety
•Contribute to Risk Assessments for students, activities and venues, with responsibility for allocated students/ groups.
•Vigilance and awareness of the environment and needs of students at all times
•Engage with the health and safety requirements of a school environment, including reporting of all identified risks
•Sign in and out of sites as required
•Compliance with accident reporting and RIDDOR
•Comply with tracking requirements whilst working in off-site venues
Training and Development
•Coordinate school CPD calendar
•Complete all Statutory and company training when required
•Value personal professional development
•Engage positively in induction, probation, and performance management processes
•Engage with CPD professionally and proactively
Additional duties
•Any other reasonable duties as requested that is not specified in this job description
•This is not an exhaustive job description and does not intend to specify the proportion of time spent on any of the duties outlined herein. This job description will form the basis for the assessment of the performance within the context of Performance Management
Criteria
Qualifications and training
Essential: ·
•GCSE or equivalent level in English and maths
Desirable: ·
•Level 3 Teaching Assistant · Safeguarding qualification
Experience
Essential:
•Office
•Working with children and young people
Desirable:
•Working in an environment with children with SEN
•Working with vulnerable/ at risk children.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
•IT, including Office.
•Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
•Ability to build effective working relationships.
•Good record-keeping.
•Ability to multitask, prioritise and problem solve effectively in a stressful environment.
•Strong planning, organisational and communication skills.
•High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
•Ability to form strong relationships with staff and students.
•Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
•Ability to plan for progression across the attainment range, designing effective learning across a series of lessons
•Knowledge and understanding of National Curriculum
•Effective communication and interpersonal skills
•Ability to build effective working relationships
•Good record-keeping skills
•Ability to multitask and work effectively in a changing environment
•Strong planning, organisational and communication skills
•A ‘can-do’ approach and ability to problem solve
•Flexible approach to undertaking tasks
•High level of accuracy and attention to detail
Desirable
•Ofsted framework.
•Independent Schools Standards. · KCSiE
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