Keyworker
Trinity School
Barking and Dagenham
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Scale 5: £30,033 - £31,440 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 3 May 2024
Job overview
KEYWORKER
Scale 5: £30,033 - £31,440 per annum
Full Time - 35 hours per week Mon-Thurs 8.30 am - 4pm Friday 8.30 - 3.45pm– 52 weeks per year
25 days annual leave per year (15 days fixed for closures) plus bank holidays
Required: ASAP
Closing date: 12 noon on Friday 3rd May 2024
Interviews: Monday 13th May 2024
Trinity School is seeking to appoint individuals with special skills, enthusiasm and a high degree of commitment to working with students with the highest level of need and challenging behaviour arising from autism.
The Highly Specialist Behaviour Team (incorporating the Living and Learning Centre) provides specialist care and support for the development of independent, self-help, functional and vocational living skills for up to 19 pupils currently aged between 8-19 with an ASC diagnosis and associated challenging behaviours. The Living and Learning Centre is a unique provision which provides a service to the pupils for 48 weeks per year together with flexibility in the timing of the school day within a set period.
The job will require the successful candidate to work closely with one individual student and to take responsibility for the implementation of their educational, social and behaviour plan. As a Keyworker, you will be expected to develop a deep understanding of the needs of your allocated student. You will also be expected to carry out joint planning for your assigned student and to lead lessons in a curriculum area under the guidance of the Centre’s Qualified Teacher.
Applications are welcomed from individuals who:
- have proven good experience of working directly with primary, secondary and/or sixth form aged pupils who have an Autistic Spectrum Condition diagnosis.
- have some experience of working with individuals who have challenging behaviour/communication difficulties and can prove that they have the resilience to work with young adults with complex needs
- have awareness and can describe the School’s TEACCH (structure) pedagogy
- are willing and able to carry out manual handling tasks which could include; assistance with students’ personal care, auxiliary medical care and the management, under guidance, of difficult behaviours
- are committed to continuous professional development
- have a positive “can do” attitude and are very willing to learn
- are willing to work flexible hours
- some experience and basic skills of using ICT packages such as Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
- possess at least a minimum of NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent is 4 GCSE’s Grade A* - C/new Grade 4 or above)
- are willing to follow assessment and recording procedures, as well as following relevant curriculum tasks
We will be able to offer you professional development and training along with shadowing, mentoring and coaching.
We recommend all potential applicants arrange a visit to the LLC before making an application
All applications should be made on the Trinity School application form available from the school website on https://trinityschool.face-ed.co.uk/Vacancies
CVs will not be accepted and should not be submitted
Only those applicants that are shortlisted will be notified of the interviews
Trinity School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will undergo online searches and their referees contacted prior to the interview.
An enhanced criminal record check via the DBS will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a comprehensive screening process, including a disclosure check will be undertaken on all applicants.
Attached documents
About Trinity School
Our School
Trinity School is an all age, modern, vibrant special school catering for the needs of students who have a wide range of learning difficulties, moderate, severe, profound and complex. A number of our pupils also have an autism spectrum condition (ASC).
At present Trinity is one of two special schools in Barking and Dagenham and it is currently oversubscribed. A wide range of special educational needs is reflected in the school population. The key characteristics of learners are as follows: almost all the pupils have severe learning difficulties of which 54 % have Autistic Spectrum Condition, and 13% have extremely complex medical and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties.
The school also has a 48 week provision known as the Living and Learning Centre. It offers education to a group of twelve pupils with profound autistic spectrum condition. In addition a highly successful extensive extended schools provision is run on each Saturday morning of the term, as well as during some of the school holidays.
The school has been judged as an outstanding school for three consecutive inspections in 2007, 2009 and 2014. Outstanding pupil progress is reflected in whole school data and accreditation attainment and this is supported by established and embedded pedagogies throughout the school.
Main Priorities of the School
- To provide the best service possible to our pupils and their families.
- To enable our pupils and their families to stay together and for pupils to acquire those skills that will support the ability to live as independent a life as possible within this community.
- The school seeks to play our part in counteracting the local cycle of deprivation by teaching relevant skills and supporting families and the work force in raising expectations and fulfilling aspirations.
- To establish models of best practice which can be shared with colleagues across the local authority to ensure that there is a continuity of approaches for people for whom access to services and support will be life-long.
- To foster a well trained work force with competencies in key pedagogies via access to high quality staff training facilities.
- To use staff development as a means of securing planned succession and ensure the continuity of effective teaching.
- To secure the legacy of an outstanding school
- To promote attainment and achievement of all pupils regardless of their disability
- To support the school’s raising attainment agenda through a focus on curriculum development, pedagogies and staff training.
- To foster partnership between Trinity school, the parents, the Local Authority and partner schools/services in sharing our practices for the benefit of children and young people with disabilities in our community.
- To promote the inclusion of all pupils through a rich and varied curriculum and through the delivery of appropriate pedagogy that is taught in a school with excellent facilities and resources.
- To enable an extensive and appropriate use of new technologies as they evolve.
Safer Recruitment Practice
Trinity School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A criminal record check via the DBS will be undertaken for the successful candidate. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a comprehensive screening process, including a disclosure check will be undertaken on all applicants.
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