Session Assistant, Alternative Education Provision - Must have experience and training working with children with SEMH/SEND needs.
Are you passionate about helping children in need of support and opportunities? Do you have experience or understanding of the importance of safeguarding? Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role within an Alternative Provision? If you’ve answered YES to any of the above, we want to hear from you!
Farm Club offers interim high dependency support to primary and secondary age students who are struggling to engage socially and academically in the classroom environment. High dependency provision at Farm Club is reflective of our staff ratios, the needs and requirements of the child and their families, as well as the approach that is taken to reintegrate a young person back into mainstream or specialist schooling. As a high dependency provision, we are able to supply outstanding resources, a tailored curriculum and dedicate unwavering time and attention to the children in our care, with careful consideration of the level of need required for each individual.
A career at Farm Club is exciting, ever-evolving and grounded in training and support. Farm Club are seeking a confident individual with a positive attitude and an ability to be highly adaptable. Ideal candidates will have a professional and positive attitude towards supporting young people on their journey through alternative provision.
It is essential that the applicant has experience in working with children with SEMH/SEND needs to join our friendly supportive team. Teaching assistants and candidates with experience of working with children are ideal candidates for this role.
We are looking for a Session Assistant with passion for the outdoors, child care and animal care to join our growing team at Farm Club. Candidates with experience working with children and in caring for animals are most suitable for this vacancy.
The position of Session Assistant involves supporting and delivering sessions for students in line with our Farm Club learning programme, caring for the animals at Farm Club (goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, poultry, cats and dogs), setting up of activities, maintaining a clean and vibrant provision for learning. To ensure students are getting maximum benefit from their time with Farm Club, we require an individual who can demonstrate compassion, creativity, vigilance, patience, and resilience.
Farm Club is a space for children to learn to understand the importance of following rules and instructions, to work on their ability to emotionally regulate, to receive help and support with communication difficulties, to build an appetite for learning and development and to be supported to develop their social integration and communication skills.
Hours of Work
We are looking to recruit part time and full time positions
The opportunity for working hours is term time only (39 weeks of the year).
The working hours available are Monday - Friday 09:00 - 15:30
Sessions run from 09:00 - 12:00 and 12:30 - 15:30
Our Safeguarding Priority
Farm Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children. We strictly abide by our Safer Recruitment policy including right to work checks, identification checks, referencing checks and DBS checks. All applicants should be aware that they must undergo child protection screening appropriate for each job role. It’s an offence for any organisation to offer employment that involves regular contact with young people under the age of 18 to anyone who has been convicted of certain specified offences, or those who are included on lists considered unsuitable for such work held by the Department of Education. It is also an offence for people convicted of such offences to apply for work with young people. If you are successful throughout your application, you will be subject to satisfactory completion of an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed.
Further information about the Disclosure and Barring Service can be found at Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Farm Club employees are expected to abide by Farm Club’s safeguarding policy, codes of conduct and will attend Safeguarding training through Cambridgeshire County Council.
Must have evidence of relevant training and a minimum of 1 year’s experience of working with children with SEMH/SEND needs.