Advocate for Fen Rivers School
The Bridge MAT
King's Lynn, Norfolk
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary Grade: D – Actual Starting Salary: £21,862.49
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 30 September 2024
Job overview
Advocate for Fen Rivers School
Salary Grade: D – Actual Starting Salary: £21,862.49
Contract: 37 hours per week: Monday – Friday term time only
39 weeks per year
Start Date: As soon as possible
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge?
Are you an innovative, creative practitioner?
Do you have drive and ambition to be the best that you can be?
Do you relish working in an environment where you will be supported all the way?
Do you enjoy really making a difference to children’s lives?
Would you like to be part of a Trust which promotes research, creativity and staff development?
Then come and meet us.
Our story:
The Bridge Trust is a unique Multi Academy Trust which consists of four special schools, one primary school, a Training & Development Service and an Outreach Service. We are an ambitious family of schools that embraces the individuality of everyone – children and adults.
Fen Rivers, which is part of The Bridge Trust, provides young people with specialist education in order for them to progress and succeed in sustained education or employment. We do this through high-quality therapeutic teaching and learning, based on effective relationships, that enable the achievement of life skills and meaningful qualifications. For more info, please visit our website: https://thebridgetrust.academy/our-schools/fen-rivers/
We are recruiting an Advocate for the following reasons:
- To manage, support and develop a group of marginalized young people and their families by building trusting relationships through the use of individual sessions, group work, family visits and other interventions.
- To oversee a holistic person centered approach to a young person’s journey from entry to exit, bridging the gap between their academic, behavioural and therapeutic needs.
- To develop individual education/learning plans that brings together internal, external and multi-agency professionals in order to support development, attainment and progression.
- To embed safeguarding and inclusion principles at the heart of all practice.
In return, we can offer you:
- Excellent professional development opportunities.
- A supportive community and a committed team of staff that are equally determined to give students the best possible opportunities.
- Financial Wellbeing Scheme, Employee discount schemes, Employee Assistance Programs.
Visits and discussions are welcome. Please contact Heidi.Leggett@thebridgetrust.academy to arrange this with you.
To view the job description and person specification this post, please visit the vacancies page on our school website; https://thebridgetrust.academy/vacancies/
To apply, please click on this link to be redirected to the application form. Please note that we reserve the right to interview sooner should we have a strong field.
Closing date: 23:59, Thursday 31st August 2024
Interviews Date: TBC
Please note CVs will not be accepted
The Bridge MAT is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure and children’s barred list check where relevant.
This position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subsequent amendments to this Act.
Attached documents
About The Bridge MAT
The Bridge Trust is a unique multi-academy trust currently consisting of five special schools, one primary school, a Training and Development Service and an Outreach Service.
We are an ambitious family of schools that embraces the individuality of everyone – children and adults. We acknowledge that learning can look different for different pupils and staff and we look to change our approach to meet the needs of the individual. We are committed to getting learning right for everyone. We’re always looking for new and better ways of doing things – everything is about doing the best for our children and young people.
We believe that learning for both children and adults in the Trust is greater together as a group of schools in partnership. We can learn more together and make better provision together rather than schools operating separately.
At The Bridge Trust, we aim to give every member of staff;
dedicated days to follow an individualised plan to build on their practice through relevant training programmes but also acknowledging the importance of activities such as;
- peer observations, reviews and reflective practice
- visiting alternative settings
- JPD in lesson planning, assessment moderation, lesson observations
On top of a full induction programme, staff at all levels will create an individual CPD plan, completed by the end of September and linked to;
- their development needs identified through performance management / lesson observations / skills audit
- 2 CPD days per year allocated to support individual CPD plan – remaining CPD allocation directed by The Bridge SIP
- Identification of impact from CPD on individual and The Bridge Trust
Our team also have access to an individualised training programme to make sure that we continually build on impact and learn about new ways of working.
What makes The Bridge Trust such a good place to work?
Our Students: They are very special and make everything we do worthwhile
Our Holistic and Multidisciplinary approach: We have a range of different teams/professionals in house
The people at The Bridge Trust: We work with very talented and passionate people coming from different educational backgrounds.
We’re a PGCE and Training Provider: We believe and invest in ‘growing our own staff’
Continually investing in employees development: An array of internal courses which employees are encouraged to apply for and attend, as well as to seek external courses which may aid their development and contribution to The Bridge Trust
We are growing at such a tremendous rate, so there is an increased opportunity for internal promotion: Future plans to expand and open new schools
Advantages of joining a MAT: A chance for internal movement across different sites.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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