Head of Centre

Lawnswood Campus

Head of Centre

The Orchard Centre

Head of Centre - Leadership Pay Spine L15-19  – Permanent Contract – Full Time

Required for January 2023

It’s an exciting time to join the Lawnswood Campus family as we embark on our journey to become ‘The Leading Light for PRUs and Alternative Provision in the UK’. We are seeking an experienced, strategic, inspiring and determined leader who has a passion for working with young people who have challenging behaviour and social, emotional and mental health needs. We are looking for a leader who is confident, resilient and innovative; a strong communicator who has high expectations and drive, is empathetic to the complex needs of young people and has an understanding of the impact of families and staff under pressure. A champion for young people who is determined to deliver the highest quality of education, wide ranging interventions to support the unmet social, emotional and mental health needs of young people and make a real difference in young people’s lives and their futures.

Lawnswood Campus is a Federation of three Pupil Referral Units, a Home and Hospital Service and an Integrated Therapy Service, a Lawnswood Learning Link Service, an Outreach Service and a STARNet Service providing the schools and City of Wolverhampton as part of a city wide strategy to promote inclusion and positive behaviour in safe, secure, child centred, positive and nurturing environments with high quality teaching and learning via vibrant curriculum and intervention programmes that meet the needs of our young people.

• The Braybrook Centre: KS3 young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties and includes access to the LITS Service, Lawnswood Learning Link Service, STARNet Service and Outreach Service;
•  The Midpoint Centre: KS4 young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties and includes a dedicated skills block and access to the LITS Service, Lawnswood Learning Link Service, STARNet Service and Outreach Service;
• The Orchard Centre: KS3 to KS4 young people who require social, emotional or mental health support and has access to the LITS Service, Lawnswood Learning Link Service, STARNet Service and Outreach Service;
• Nightingale Home and Hospital Service: A specialist home and hospital service that works in partnership with key agencies to offer appropriate intervention to KS2-KS4 vulnerable young people with medical and mental health needs in a supportive and structured setting and includes a hospital school room at New Cross Hospital and access to the LITS Service.
• LITS Lawnswood Integrated Therapy Service: A specialist provision consisting of Counselling Psychologists and trained Counsellors offering a range of therapies which include Humanistic, Cognitive, Behavioural, Health and Psychodynamic and Systemic modalities. The clinical work is underpinned by evidence- based practice.
• Lawnswood Learning Link: A dedicated space for delivering early intervention programmes. The Behaviour for Learning programme is designed to support young people who are struggling with their behaviour. This programme gives the young people the tools they need to support change their behaviour, the programme also includes Maths, English and PE lessons and a relationships and team building activity. The Building Emotional Resilience Programme is designed to support young people who are struggling with their emotions, self-esteem and resilience. This programme gives young people the tools they need to understand and self-regulate their emotional responses, improve their self-worth and develop their ability to bounce back, the programme also includes a weekly relationships, health and team building activity with a therapy specialist.
• Outreach: Is a bespoke service to meet the complex needs of individual young people for whom provision on site is currently not appropriate due to health and safety reasons. All young people are discussed weekly and their learning and engagement journey is monitored carefully as the aim of the service to build up their education provision over time.  Wherever possible teaching venues are allocated within the locality of the young person’s home to further promote engagement
• STARNet: Is an inclusion service on Lawnswood campus which provides a learning and intervention space for our young people away from the Centres. There are two STARNets on Lawnswood Campus: It is used as an alternative to a Fixed Term Exclusion, Alternative to a Modified Timetable, 1:1 Intensive Behaviour Mentoring, Support for Complex SEMH Needs, Restorative Conversations, Listening, Reflection, Calming Space and Keep Up.
• CPD suite: We have two large rooms which support a range of CPD programmes for staff and a valuable community resource.
• Sports Hall and Fitness Suite: We have a 1.5 million Sport Hall and a dedicated fitness suite for PE and sport and fitness programmes for young people and staff and provides a valuable community resource.

1.  We offer a full-time education with excellent facilities, where young people can take advantage of opportunities given to them to improve their life chances;
2. We provide specialist teachers, teaching assistants and pastoral support managers and offer wide ranging support, observation and intervention to develop self-esteem, confidence, social skills;
3. We assess the needs of each individual child and young person and apply consistent strategies and interventions that support young people to overcome barriers to learning in order to effectively re-engage and reintegrate them back onto their learning journey.
4. We work in partnership with a range of mainstream schools, special schools, therapists and agencies in order to support each individual child and young person in achieving their maximum potential and enable a love of learning by providing a rich and meaningful curriculum and individualised programmes to target the young people’s personalised needs.
5. We communicate closely with parents, carers and school staff to help them to overcome the difficulties experienced by their child or young person and provide opportunities for them to work with their child or young person in reflecting on their behaviour, identify coping strategies and identifying how giving time and praise helps the behaviour change process.

Lawnswood Campus prides itself in having a STAR (Support, Trust, Achieve, Respect) ethos and is committed to striving for the highest quality and standards in Safeguarding, Leadership and Management, Quality of Education, Behaviour and Attitudes and Personal Development all of which are underpinned with a holistic approach, kindness and empathy.  Lawnswood Campus has a Management Committee of education professionals, staff representatives and community representatives. You can obtain further information about Lawnswood Campus by visiting www.lawnswood.org.uk.

As well as a competitive salary, the post attracts the benefits of working in a local authority grant maintained school and teacher’s pay and conditions.

Lawnswood Campus is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its vulnerable young people and to equality of opportunity for all of its staff, therefore, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. 

All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

All Lawnswood Campus staff passionately believe in giving all young people a new chance to be successful and encouraging them to make a positive success of their lives. Lawnswood is a happy place to work and a happy place to learn.

Closing Date: Friday 16th September 2022

Lawnswood Campus is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and two satisfactory references from your current or previous employment.

To apply, applicants will be required to complete an application form and return to Mrs Rachel Bain at rbain@lawnswoodcampus.co.uk