Reporting To: Senior Leadership Team / Inclusion & Safeguarding Manager
Contract type: Full-time Permanent
Grade D1 £27,780 FTE annual salary
A role focused on removing barriers to learning including behavioural, mental health,
emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA)
Duties and responsibilities
- Provide pastoral support to students
- Receive and supervise students excluded from, or otherwise not working to, a normal
timetable - Provide pastoral and personal support to students experiencing difficulties in school
or at home through listening and supporting referred students and others as required - Provide advice and assistance to students in their social, health and hygiene
development - Participate with teaching staff in comprehensive assessment of students to determine
those in need of help - Assist the teacher with the development and implementation of Individual
Education/Behaviour/Support/Mentoring plans - Establish productive working relationships with students acting as a role model
- Develop mentoring arrangements with students and provide support for distressed
students - Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging information,
facilitating their support for their child’s attendance, access and learning and
supporting home to school and community links - Support the speedy/effective transfer of student information across phases
- Promote the effective integration of those students who have been absent
- Provide information and advice to enable students to make choices about their own
learning/behaviour/attendance - Challenge and motivate students, promote and reinforce self-esteem
- Provide feedback to students in relation to progress, achievement, behaviour,
attendance - Support students’ access to learning using appropriate strategies, resources etc.
- Assist in planning, evaluating and adjusting learning activities as appropriate
- Monitor and evaluate students’ responses and progress
- Strong leadership of the social inclusion room (Flex) or equivalent, creating
atmosphere of learning and trust whilst developing skills to enable the students to
return to timetabled teaching - Attend and participate in regular meetings
Knowledge and Skills
- Experience in working with young people
- A good understanding of the curriculum and the standards the school are trying to
achieve - Good communications and people skills and able to clarify and explain instructions
clearly - Able to work individually and in a team
- Commitment to promoting inclusion, well-being, and respect for all learners
- Experience in developing relationships and building trust within a workplace setting
- A commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
- Negotiation and persuasion skills
- Conflict-resolution skills and in restraint techniques for dealing with challenging
behaviour - Organisational skills