Support Worker

Working Pattern:

30 hours per week/39 weeks per year

Monday to Friday 8.45am – 3.15pm with an unpaid lunch break

We have an exciting opportunity for a Support Worker to join the team at Fox Grove School.

The Support Worker will be responsible for those pupils boarding in the Life Skills Classes in Fox Grove School .

They will be the key person for allocated groups of pupils.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Planning and delivery of EHCP / Preparation for Adulthood targets
• Carrying out risk assessments for individual pupils.
• Provide positive behaviour support strategies.
• The Support Worker will be required to work as part of the Life Skills staff team. The Life Skills teacher will directly supervise them.  They are responsible to the Vice Principal.

THPT offers:

• An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation
• An excellent benefit package to include Cycle to Work, Sainsbury’s Loyalty Discount and access to discount schemes
• A fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions
• Rewards and Benefits Scheme that includes Loyalty and Service Awards
• Full access to the Employee Assistance Programme from Education Support

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

Essential Criteria

Values and Behaviours

The Howard Partnership Trust is a values-based organization which seeks to recruit individuals who can demonstrate our values.

Our values will be assessed through the selection process. We therefore ask all applicants when providing their supporting statement to incorporate not only how they meet the essential criteria for the role but to also how they demonstrate our values.

Our THPT values are:

• Integrity - displaying honesty and having strong moral principles
• Partnership - working together and taking collective ownership to achieve the same goals
• Advocacy - working hard on behalf of others to maximise their success
• Resilience - finding success again after something difficult or negative has happened
• Compassion - displaying empathy towards and a desire to help others
• Aspiration - aiming high to achieve success

Safeguarding and Further Information

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.