Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Co-ordinator
Gordon's School
Woking
- Expired
- Salary:
- £25,000 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 5 July 2018
Job overview
Role:
This is a new post and an exciting opportunity to support and mentor our students with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH needs formerly EBD) in order for them to fulfil their full potential. We are looking for an individual to manage our Student Support Centre with the necessary skills and experience to develop students’ emotional intelligence and resilience and encourage students to engage in learning with reduced removal from lessons.
The role includes:
• To support and mentor individual students or groups of students who may have significant social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs in order for them to fulfil their full potential.
• To be responsible for ensuring that students in isolation are supervised and complete the work set.
• To discuss with students the reasons why they were internally excluded or removed from a lesson and look to support them in developing strategies to avoid further internal exclusions.
• To provide support and guidance to students and those who engage with them, by removing barriers to learning in order to promote effective participation, enhance individual learning, raise aspirations and help achieve their potential.
• To provide monitoring reports for SLT.
Key outcomes:
• To develop the emotional intelligence and resilience of students to help them to cope and thrive.
• To support parents in identifying and removing barriers tAo learning and achievement.
• To provide programmes which change behaviour and ensure that students can engage in learning with reduced or limited withdrawal from lessons.
Person Specification Skills and experience
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Experience of working with and a good working understanding of young people with complex needs
• Good working knowledge of IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Experience of handling confidential information appropriately
• Evidence of continuing professional development Qualities
• Ability to interact effectively and professionally with young people, colleagues and parents.
• Ability to develop students’ core skills and subject knowledge.
• Enthusiastic and positive attitude.
Gordon’s School is a State Boarding and Day School and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment – applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate screening including a DBS check.
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About Gordon's School
Gordon’s is a non-selective, co-ed, 11-18 school of circa 1000 students. Unusually for a state school it offers residential boarding facilities to 280 students. Founded in 1885, its historical links with General Charles Gordon have shaped the ethos and sense of tradition that is present within the school today.
Gordon’s places a strong emphasis on standards, academic success and high expectations. Great importance is placed on the quality of teaching in the classroom because of the belief that schools are first and foremost centres for learning.
In the sixth form there are over 350 students taking BTEC and A Level courses. There are five residential boarding houses and six day boarding houses for students. This allows for a high level of care and individual support, excellent staff/student relationships, backed by a structured learning and teaching environment, with high standards of courtesy and self-discipline.
In the school there is a wide variety of sporting and co-curricular activities. Daily over forty clubs offer a range from traditional games, rock-climbing and horse riding to tap dancing, music and drama. The Combined Cadet Force and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme are particularly popular and successful. One unusual feature is the marching Pipes and Drums band, which plays at ceremonial occasions at school and for outside events, when the students wear their ‘blues’ - a form of military uniform featuring the Gordon’s tartan.
School facilities are excellent and include over fifty acres of playing fields, a state-of-the art fitness centre, sports hub including all-weather pitches and coffee shop, and refurbished music and drama block.
The school is situated in fifty acres of Surrey parkland a few miles from the M25, M3 and M4 motorways. Day boarders come mainly from the local villages of West End, Chobham and Lightwater. Residential boarders come for all parts of the United Kingdom and around ten percent from overseas.
The Ofsted Inspection of November 2014 reported, “Gordon’s is an outstanding school in every respect”. Ofsted inspected 27 areas, 26 of which were given grade 1. In particular: -
“Teaching and learning are outstanding”
“The curriculum provision is outstanding”
“Standards are outstandingly high in national tests and GCSE”
“The effectiveness and efficiency of the boarding is outstanding”
“The quality of care provided by the school for the pupils is exceptional”
“Leadership and management are outstanding”
All of this is a tremendous testimony to the hard work and commitment of both students and staff – and is part of the reason why Gordon’s is the most over-subscribed state school in Surrey with over five applications for every place.
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