Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant/Mentor - Level 3

Welcome to Frederick Gent School, a member of The Two Counties Trust

There are many reasons to choose our school, and the Trust, as a great place to start or develop your career. We recognise the importance of happy, rewarded, and motivated employees and as such we have developed our HR and Professional Learning strategies to invest in people.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within the school, externally, and across the Trust, offering extensive professional learning for all employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related progression, recognising the limitations and changed the focus from proving to improving through professional growth which is focused on individual ambitions, enabling everyone to get a little bit better all the time.

We are committed to your welfare as an employee and alongside our own wellbeing and workload management arrangements we have signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. If you need additional support on a range of matters, an Employee Assistance Programme is available to you from day one of employment.

We offer highly competitive pay, including some points above national rate, an array of employee benefits including extensive high street retail discounts, gym membership and discounted healthcare.

There are an array of centralised systems which are designed to save you time and avoid duplication of effort, these are based on the work of experts across the Trust, meaning that your time can be focused where you need it to be.

We hope you will join us in a great environment where you can work with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals.

Welcome from the Headteacher

Thank you for your interest in Frederick Gent School. I am very proud of our Ofsted rated Good school and I will explain why by outlining our vision, values, strengths and priorities below.

As an 11-16 school with 802 pupils, Frederick Gent School is first and foremost a community school. There is a strong sense of community within the school and strong links to the wider community beyond the school gates. This is reflected in the positive feedback in parent view surveys which year-on-year see very high approval ratings. It is also reflected in admission requests that exceed PAN.

As a supportive learning community Frederick Gent is, first and foremost, a great place to work. Students and employees share high expectations of each other and we enjoy good relationships which support very good learning outcomes.

The school’s vision is to create a community compelled to learn, grow and succeed in the widest sense, creating lives that are happy and fulfilled. We place great emphasis on the importance of GCSE examination success for our students’ future life choices, but we are also aware of our duty to prepare young people to go out into the world as good citizens, who are ready and able to make a positive contribution to their communities and the future.

As the Headteacher I take great pride in the positive attitude and respectful behaviour of Frederick Gent students. They work hard, look smart, support each other and actively try to do well in all of their subjects. They are proud of and enjoy school.

All employees at Frederick Gent receive excellent opportunities to develop themselves and their career. In-house professional development benefits from wider input by The Two Counties Trust and all employees are encouraged and expected to tap into the array of professional learning opportunities on offer.

The standard of teaching and support is high at Frederick Gent School and the continuous improvement of these areas is our number one priority. Colleagues share a belief that everyone can improve, not because they are not good enough, but because all of us can always be a little bit better.

As part of our commitment to ongoing improvement we need to recruit the best people at every opportunity. We are looking for people who are committed to improving the life choices of our students and who can fit the friendly, hard-working and ambitious profile of the employees already here.

If you haven’t already, I would recommend that you visit the school and see us in action. We are always happy to meet prospective applicants and to talk openly and honestly about the school and the post on offer.

Frederick Gent School is a great school to work in and will become even better as we continue to build on our existing success. I look forward to receiving your application.

Chris Woollard

The Two Counties Trust

With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have nine secondary schools, over 11,000 students and 1,500 employees.

We exist to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share. Collectively we serve our communities by educating and preparing our students for the next steps in their lives.

Leaders across the Trust are fully committed to striving for excellence in all that we do. We understand that families trust us each day with their most prized possession i.e their child, and we all are here to serve the students in our care.

Our values are:

Ambition:   We maximise our potential through striving for excellence.

Teamwork: We give 100% effort, displaying kindness and humility for the benefit of all.

Honesty:    We are respectfully open about our successes and areas for growth.

To find out more about us, please go to The Two Counties Trust website.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Trust in the near future.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a children's barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates to identify incidents or issues that may have happened, and which are publicly available online, which we may need to explore with shortlisted candidates.

The school's child protection policy can be located at: www.frederickgent.ttct.co.uk/our-school/policies.

The Trust's policy on the employment of ex-offenders can be located at: www.ttct.co.uk/our-trust/policies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and as such we are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.