Communication Support Worker

Welcome to Allestree Woodlands 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

Allestree Woodlands is an oversubscribed, successful 11-18  school with over 1,400 students and a member of The Two Counties Trust. We are situated on the northern edge of the city of Derby in a very pleasant setting overlooking the Kedleston Hall National Trust estate.

We pride ourselves on the warm and friendly atmosphere of our school. We strive for the best achievements for our students and passionately believe that every young person deserves the chance to be successful. This is encapsulated in our mission “enabling aspiration and achievement for all, through delivery of a knowledge-rich curriculum”.

Our mission is underpinned by our CORE values of Courage, Optimism, Regard and Endeavour. Staff at Allestree Woodlands continually refine and strengthen our curriculum to ensure that knowledge acquisition is clearly sequenced, coherent, and builds progressively year on year, enabling students to maximise their learning across every subject.

We support and challenge all young people to aspire, to imagine what their futures could hold, and to work hard to make ambitious goals achievable. Why settle for less than our very best? We believe that when aspiration meets hard work, remarkable things can happen - a belief further reflected  in the TTCT mission "to provide our students with opportunities and experienced to enhance their life choices."

Our curriculum is broad at all key stages, complemented by a thriving Sixth Form. We value sports, creative and performing arts and technology alongside a strong academic core. Our aim is to ensure that every student benefits from an experience that nurtures courage, optimism, regard and endeavour. We are fortunate to have excellent facilities that allow us to deliver a wide range of subjects and enrichment opportunities.

We are deeply committed to the professional learning and career development of all colleagues.  Allestree Woodlands is a special place to work; staff consistently speak of the warmth, support and collaborative spirit that characterise our school, strengthened by a professional learning programme shaped around individual ambitions.

Our success is built on a strong partnership between students, families, staff and governors - partnerships that flourish in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. We welcome individuals who are committed to enhancing the life choices of Allestree Woodlands students and who want to be part of a supportive, ambitious community.  We are always pleased to meet prospective applicants, and I encourage you to visit the school and see us in action.

Rachel Middleton-Lee

The Two Counties Trust

With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have ten secondary schools, over 12,000 students and 1,600 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 www.ttct.co.uk.

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

To find out more about the benefits of working for The Two Counties Trust and our ambitious strategic plan, follow the links below:

Employee Benefits Guide

Strategic Plan 2024 - 2027

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.woodlands.ttct.co.uk/our-school/policies-and-documents

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.