GIRLS Intervention & Support Officer at London East Alternative Provision (LEAP) - Scale SO1

GIRLS Intervention & Support Officer at London East Alternative Provision (LEAP)

Scale SO1, full time - £37,575 - £38,769

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London East AP (LEAP) is a successful, high-achieving KS3, KS4 and Post-16 alternative provision located in Tower Hamlets.

We are seeking to appoint a talented and committed Girls’ Intervention Support Officer to provide 1-2-1 and group support to some of our most vulnerable and challenging girls at our KS3 and our KS4 centres Stepney Green and on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets.

The vast majority of our students have significant learning, emotional, social and mental health needs and require a highly experienced and thoughtful support worker who can work with them face to face or in workshops, fostering their self-esteem, teaching them about positive friendships and relationships, as well as how to keep themselves safe in an increasingly complex world.

Our students need much more than excellent support staff/practitioners with good subject knowledge and experience of and a preference for working with hard to reach, vulnerable children.

They need staff who will care about their progress, practitioners who are able to support them with their personal development and wellbeing through education.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a strong commitment to the LEAP aims, values and ethos and a proven track record of delivering excellent outcomes for students, including those with complex behavioural and SEND needs.

The Girls’ Intervention Officer will work with our girls in a multitude of ways:

1. Delivering 1-2-1 and group sessions for a selected cohort of girls at LEAP, liaising with Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, our SENDCOs and the safeguarding team.

2. Advocating and supporting our girls in and out of school with behaviour, wellbeing and learning. Working to improving the progress, academically and socially, of the selected girls’ cohort.

3. Supporting the DSL, our CP Coordinator, our social worker and SENDCO with the day to day safeguarding, information sharing and collaborating with teachers and support staff at LEAP to ensure all concerns are being picked up and processed immediately.

4. Liaising with colleagues and external agencies to engage in multi-agency work in order to ensure the effective safeguarding and child protection of some of the most challenging and hard to reach children in Tower Hamlets.

You will be required to liaise with our Child Protection and Safeguarding team, our Alternative Provision Specialist Task Force as well as external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, the Youth Justice Service and sexual health providers.

We are looking for a team player who is keen to make a real difference to some of our most vulnerable students at LEAP, someone who is professional, friendly, reliable and able to build positive relationships with our often vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils.

In order to be able to work with our students, parents and other specialists successfully, candidates must have strong verbal and written communication skills.

This is a full-time post, and offered at SO1, which translates to an annual salary of £37,575 - £38,769.

This post is part-funded by the Violence Reduction Unit at the Mayor’s Office and comes initially with a one-year contract, with the potential to be extended to two years.

Those wishing to be considered for the role should complete an application form and return to Kathryn Ryan, School Business Manager, by 12pm, Friday, 4th October 2024: recruitment@londoneastap.org.uk

Interviews will take place in week beginning 7th October 2024. Please be aware that we do not accept CVs. 

We would welcome and encourage potential candidates to visit our schools. Please telephone or email to arrange this or for an application pack.

-      Closing date for applications: Friday, 4th October 2024

-      Interviews Week beginning 7th October 2024

London East Alternative Provision is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to undergo safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS disclosure and Barred List Checks.