Student Behaviour and Teaching support

We are a small family run independent school for students with special educational needs aged between 11 and 16 years old. As we are a SEND school so have students with various educational needs as well as looked after children who all present with different challenges. We specialise in students with Autism and/or ADHD coupled with SEMH needs. As such a lot of our students have high anxiety and low self esteem and require a nurturing environment.

A major part of our school and the support we offer students is based around our Equine yard. We have around 40 horses on site and students have access to them through planned lessons as well as interventions. All staff are expected to be able to support students in all activities so although prior experience with Horses isn't necessary all our staff must be willing to be with the students and help students with activities on the yard.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Student Behaviour and Teaching Support worker to join our team.

The successful applicant will be required to:

• Follow our positive behaviour policy
• Support students behaviour within the lesson
• Support student behaviour when un-regulated and unable to access the classroom
• Support learning within the lesson
• Support students on the yard and in other outside activities
• Aid the teacher in the smooth running of lessons
• Help to ensure behaviour standards are up kept at all times
• Support students during Break and Lunch
• Help to serve up food at Breaks and Lunch
• Help to ensure the tidiness of the rooms and site in general
• Prepare classrooms for the new term during Holidays
• Help to occasionally support yard staff in tasks
• Take part in training to improve your skills
• Deliver planned interventions
• Be flexible as each day brings new and different challenges depending on the students.
• Work well as part of a team and maintain a positive mindset to work

We don't allocate people to individual students rather keeping a flexible approach to provide support where needed on the day. Certain interventions will be timetabled as well as certain lessons which require support (eg Forestry, Cooking). Please see job description attached to the post for more information.

Important information:

• We are open Monday-Friday, 8:30am to 4pm (Students on site 8:45am to 3:45pm)
• We are looking for full time but are also willing to discuss part time as we have a few vacancies due to increasing student numbers.
• There is a staff uniform which will be required to be purchased from school trends
• Our contracts are a 52 week contract, everyone gets 28 days paid holiday (this is full time equivalent and would be adjusted for part time) to be taken during the school holidays. When you are working during the holidays this will be a mix of training and preparing classrooms and site for the new term.
• Term Times follow Derbyshires but due to the longer school day we get an extra 3 weeks, these are published on our website.
• Staff meetings after work every fortnight for everyone to attend
• Probation period of 6 months
• Private healthcare scheme available after the probation period
• CPD and training opportunities available
• We work on a tiered wage structure based on experience and relevant qualifications, there are opportunities to work up the wage structure
• All successful applicants will need 2 references (One from you last employer) and a DBS which we will do if an offer is accepted. We would also need copies of ID and copies of relevant qualifications.

We review candidates on receipt of application. If we think you would be a good fit with us we will invite you for an interview to learn more about us, for us to get to know you and for you to look around the school and see what we do. After this we would invite you to come and spend a half day with us as a trial to see how you get on with the students in our environment before being able to make offers of employment.