Learning Support Key Worker
Colfe's School
Greenwich
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 20 August 2024
Job overview
Hours of Work: 30 hours per week, term time only.
Reports to: Head of Learning Support
This appointment is fixed term until July 2025, the annual salary for this position is £21,097.
Principal Role
This is a new position funded by an EHCP, predominantly to support a student with ASD who is joining our Sixth Form in September. The requirements are not expected to include in-class support for this student. The post holder will be employed for 30 hours per week over 5 days. The specific hours may be flexible but must include an ability to work with the student until 6pm on a regular basis. The successful candidate may also be required to assist in supporting pupils in KS3 and KS4 in the classroom through a tailored programme of individual and/or group support.
Main Duties:
To support a student in the Sixth Form in developing the effectiveness of their learning, taking into account their specific learning support needs, by:
· Building a rapport with the student and developing a supportive relationship
· Assisting with organisation
· Clarifying and explaining instructions
· Encouraging completion of homework
· Providing motivation and encouragement, and promoting their self-esteem
· Assisting in overcoming barriers to learning
· Developing appropriate resources, both independently and in liaison with other school staff, in order to provide support on a one-to-one basis
To contribute to the Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) and Annual Review of the supported student;
To assist in reviewing student progress;
To liaise with teaching staff, the Head of Learning Support and members of the Sixth Form team to ensure the well-being of the student;
To carry out any other reasonable requests, including in-class support for KS3 and KS4 pupils as required.
Person Specification:
· Exceptional interpersonal and organisational skills;
· Knowledge of SEND and, preferably, experience working with students with ASD.
· Understanding of best practice in teaching and learning strategies to meet specific needs;
· Commitment to equality and diversity;
· Commitment to own personal professional development in fulfilling this role.
Application procedure
The recruitment process will require all applicants to complete an application form, accompanied by a letter of application, current CV and details of two referees, who will be contacted prior to interview, in accordance with the School’s Safer Recruitment procedures.
The application may be submitted either electronically, to: recruitment@colfes.com or by post, to: Mrs A Ross, Human Resources, Colfe’s School, Horn Park Lane, London SE12 8AW
Applications should be sent as soon as possible and by 09.00 on Tuesday 20 August at the latest. Colfe’s reserves the right to appoint to this post before the closing date if necessary and we would therefore very much encourage early applications.
Colfe’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
Attached documents
About Colfe's School
THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL
At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;
• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;
• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;
• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;
• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.
Colfe’s School
Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools. It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652. In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.
In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school. For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.
Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London. All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site. The facilities are excellent: the school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.
Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.
Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it. It is very much a school of the present day. The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy). The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other. Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’. They are lively and willing to have a go.
Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.
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