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Location: Gretton School

Contract type: Permanent 

Hours:  Full-time, term-time position

Salary:  NHS Band 5 or Band 6 £28,407 - £37,350, depending on experience

Start date: September 2024 (can be flexible)

Apply by: 02 Sep 2024

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Overview: 

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to join our team as a Band 5/6 Speech and Language Therapist. Duties include the delivery of speech and language therapy assessments and interventions in the school, ensuring that programmes are integral to the student’s education and development. The role will also provide universal support across the school to ensure the principles of Speech and Language Therapy are embedded across the classrooms. The post-holder will also provide training and support to colleagues to ensure that they are confident in supporting learners with Speech and Language needs.

Location: Gretton School

Salary: £19,401 starting salary (depending on experience)

Contract type: Permanent

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Overview: 

We are looking for exceptional people to work with our exceptional students. We are recruiting Teaching Assistants to start as soon as possible. The successful candidates will have the ability to support teaching across either the secondary phase or sixth form.

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We are seeking people who thrive on working in a challenging but immensely rewarding environment, who are passionate about supporting the development of social, life and independence skills and who truly want to make a difference in the lives of young people.

Location: Quorn Hall School

Contract type: Permanent, Term time only - 39 weeks

Salary: £19,134 (actual salary)

Hours: 08.30-4.30, Monday to Friday

Start date: ASAP

Closing date: 19 Aug 2024

 

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Overview: 

Our pupils are exceptional. Are you? We are excited to offer the opportunity for a Teaching Assistant to join our amazing team on a permanent basis and work with pupils who have a range of Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs.

The successful candidate will be expected to make a real and positive impact to the lives of children who have a range of special educational needs (SEMH/ASD), life experiences and personalities that make every day varied and interesting. You will be able to successfully build trusting student relationships and motivate and encourage pupils as required by providing levels of individual attention, reassurance and help with living and learning tasks as appropriate.

 

Reliance is a key trait for all our staff. We would love to hear from you if you thrive working in a challenging but immensely rewarding environment, if you are passionate about supporting the development of social, life and independence skills, and if you truly want to make a difference in the lives of young people.

Location: Newcome Education - 

• Quorn Hall School, Leicestershire
• Hardwick House School, Loughborough
• Wilds Lodge School, Rutland
• Gretton School, Cambridgeshire

Contract type: Permanent and Full time, Term time only (39 weeks plus 2 weeks)

Salary: £50,952 - £57,349 (depending on experience)

Start date: To start as soon as available

Closing date: 14 Aug 2024

 

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Overview: 

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic Educational Psychologist to support the development and delivery of our therapeutic service across specialist independent schools in the Eastern Region. A specialism in Autism and / or SEMH is desirable. Experience in developing and improving a psychology service would also be an advantage.

Working in collaboration with the Clinical Psychologist, you would be delivering psychological support as part of a multi-disciplinary team comprising Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Creative Therapists. You will work predominantly at a strategic and systemic level but also therapeutically with children and young people. You’ll provide psychological assessment, intervention, consultation, guidance for education and care teams and professional development training for all staff. The role involves communicating with families/ carers and specialist agencies.

You will need to be creative and passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with complex needs. This is a challenging role and you must be able to cope with stressful interpersonal situations whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism.

The ideal candidate will be resilient and have experience of working with children and young people with complex SEMH needs and ASD. You will need to be a good communicator with strong skills in assessment and report writing.

 

There is a commitment to continued professional development for our staff and a specific CPD budget to support psychologists. We anticipate the psychology provision will grow over the coming years with potential to recruit both assistant grade and qualified psychologists. This is an exciting time to join our psychology provision in schools and shape the developing service.

Location: Gretton School
Salary: £27,000 to £30,000, depending on experience

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am-4pm (except Tuesdays to 5pm), Term Time only.

Apply by: 02 Sep 2024

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Overview: 

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to join our team as the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead. This pivotal role supports the Designated Safeguarding Lead in maintaining a safe and nurturing environment for all students. The main purpose of this role is to support the Designated Safeguarding Lead by triaging and responding to all safeguarding and child protection matters arising at the school and supporting all other staff in dealing with any child protection concerns that arise.

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The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead will be responsible for mandatory recording, reporting and responding to duties on all matters relating to safeguarding, effectively and efficiently creating a culture of safety across the school in line with the most recent and updated national guidance. This role will report to the Designated Safeguarding Lead accordingly.

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The Deputy Designated Safeguard Lead will attend meetings for identified children, represent the school’s views and positions and liaise with professionals, both internal and external to the school, in accordance with Safeguarding procedures.

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The Deputy Designated Safeguard Lead will also support in the training of staff across school and uphold the principles outlined in the document ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, ensuring a quick response to any amendments and additions to this document as required.

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The Deputy Designated Safeguard Lead will be responsible for the reporting on complex cases, where CAMHS might be involved, where there might be a Team around the Family or where the family are in receipt of Social Care support. They will be required to complete timely referrals and access external support for learners and their families.

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The Designated Safeguarding Lead will be required to prepare reports on matters relating to complex cases and ensure all stakeholders are kept informed.

Location: Gretton School
Contract type: Permanent 

Salary: £22,401 

Hours: Full time (8am-4pm, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 8-5pm Tuesdays) term time only

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Overview: 

We are looking for exceptional people to work with our exceptional students. We are recruiting a Higher Level Teaching Assistant to start as soon as possible. The successful candidate will have the ability to support teaching across the secondary age range and to work with the class teacher to complete annual review paperwork and reports.

 

What you'll need to succeed

• HLTA Qualification (or willingness to complete)

• GCSE grade C (or equivalent) in both Maths and English

• Knowledge, understanding and experience of Autism as well as a broad knowledge of strategies used for teaching students with ASC

• Ability to remain calm under pressure and be able to adapt to change quickly

 

We are seeking people who thrive on working in a challenging but immensely rewarding environment, who are passionate about supporting the development of social, life and independence skills and who truly want to make a difference in the lives of young people.

Location: Newcome Education - 

• Quorn Hall School, Leicestershire
• Hardwick House School, Loughborough
• Wilds Lodge School, Rutland
• Gretton School, Cambridgeshire

Contract type: Permanent and Full time, Term time only (39 weeks plus 2 weeks)

Salary: £50,952 - £57,349 (depending on experience)

Closing date: 14 Aug 2024

 

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Overview: 

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our group of schools and bring energy, commitment and compassion to their role. We would particularly welcome Clinical Psychologists with experience of working clinically with children and young people with autism and social, emotional and mental health needs. It is not essential to have worked in an education setting, as support will be provided to help the successful candidate apply their experience within our schools.

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Responsibilities include carrying out the professional duties of a Clinical Psychologist as circumstances may require; you will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, including educational psychologists, therapists and teaching practitioners, promoting the use of clinical psychology in order to improve the learning outcomes and emotional well-being of children and young people. You will work systemically to support a whole school ethos based on Positive Behaviour Support and Relational Approaches, working clinically with specific students, class teams and networks to effect positive change for individual students.

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You will need to be creative and passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with complex needs. This is a challenging role and you must be able to cope with stressful interpersonal situations whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism.

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There is a commitment to continued professional development for our staff and a specific CPD budget to support psychologists. We anticipate the psychology provision will grow over the coming years with potential to recruit both assistant grade and qualified psychologists. This is an exciting time to join our psychology provision in schools and shape the developing service.

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Qualifications and experience

• An Honors Degree in Psychology recognised as a Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society
• Doctorate level training in Clinical Psychology
• Accredited training in clinical supervision
• Experience of team and service leadership and improvement
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families across the full range of care settings
• Full and valid Driving Licence

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All our schools are committed to offering a relational approach to education, informed by specialist knowledge of Autism and SEMH. Children and Young People who attend our schools have frequently experienced disrupted relationships as a consequence of their needs not being understood or met in other settings. We are committed to offering learners reparative experiences of relationships in order to enable them to meet their full potential. Within this overarching relational frame, we draw on evidence based approaches such as restorative practice and positive behaviour support to meet the needs of our students and support the wellbeing of the whole school community.