On Site Provision (OSP) Inclusion Lead

On Site Provision Inclusion Lead

Job Type:  Permanent

Hours of work:  36 hours per week x 39 weeks per year (Term time plus one week) 

Salary calculated in line with NJC Grade E pay scale, point 15 - 20 £27,803 - £30,296 FTE per annum. Actual salary £23,328 - £25,528

We are now recruiting for an On Site Provision Inclusion Leader to lead the day to day operation of the Alternative Provision Unit on our Campus. The Unit is to support students who find the school system challenging, including those anxiety-based school refusers and / or those who struggle to regulate emotions and behaviour within the school. The successful candidate will have experience working with students identifying learning needs and barriers to behaviours.  They will demonstrate strong interpersonal skills to work in partnership with students, parents, staff, and external agencies.

If you have the drive and dedication to help make a difference to our students we would welcome your application.

Main duties and responsibilities

Provide a welcoming environment to those students within the On Site Provision (OSP)

• Supervising students in a working environment

• To manage all OSP admissions including baseline testing and review of those in the OSP to support the identification of need, and review progress

• To develop effective short term and long term packages of support and intervention to students within the AP and as they transition back to mainstream lessons

• To contribute to the programmes of study such as delivering forest school, Princes Trust or equivalent programmes or literacy / numeracy programmes

• To develop a way to track and review progress daily and over time showing the impact of interventions both to the student, parents and leaders

• Evaluate the interventions for each student and keep record of impact, contributing to their PSP (Pastoral Support Plans)

• Contribute to pastoral and reasonable adjustment support plan meetings and follow-up work, including advice to staff as student transition back into mainstream lessons

• To provide effective and efficient pastoral support to promote positive attitudes to learning and behaviour, through a trauma informed approach

• To manage challenging behaviour of individual students if necessary

• To work alongside a team of staff who provide particular and skilled support in the areas of mentoring, target setting, holding review meetings, lesson visits, group work and liaison with parents, staff and outside agencies

• Day to day administration tasks include registering students, and sending electronic correspondence to parents

• Communicating daily with parents / carers of students within the OSP unit

• To work with partner school AP and ACE Schools to promote better practice through training

• To ensure safe working practices for students and staff within the OSP provision

• Any other tasks as reasonably directed by the Senior Leader responsible for behaviour

• Engage with the SENCO and SEND Team to ensure the planned provision is up to date for students, and make suggestions / additions to the pen portraits.

Stoke Damerel Community College & Scott Medical and Healthcare College are a vibrant and aspirational community of teachers and learners. We have an excellent teaching and support staff team who demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, within and beyond our curriculum.

The successful candidate will work across Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical & Healthcare College. No additional travel is required as the sites are next door to each other.

Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given. Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.

We are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character. The Trust is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers, support staff and learners committed to educating the ‘whole child’ to improve life chances, whilst securing the best possible outcomes for students.

We welcome applications from individuals who have experience of working with young people either in an educational and/or social care setting. You must be able to establish excellent relationships with pupils and colleagues, and work well within a team. 

For further information on this vacancy, please register for an online account to complete the application form. Please visit our website www.greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk/join-us/staff 

Close date: 11:59pm on Monday 21st October 2024

Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.