Education Lead
A Wilderness Way
Lanark
- £27,000 - £29,770 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- plus excellent benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 25 June 2021
Job overview
A role with A Wilderness Way offers the opportunity for you to truly make a difference to a child’s life.
Our Education Leads provide a meaningful assessment of children’s educational ability, barriers to learning and preferred learning styles, whilst also acting as an opportunity for children to develop confidence in their abilities.
You’ll manage the delivery of educational assessment and functional skills of 5/6 children aged 8-18, on an individual 1:1 basis. This will include developing individual plans for children alongside the Education Manager. You will work with the team around each child to ensure that the provision of educational assessment and differentiated educational programs are achieved for children in placement during their time with us. This would typically be 17 weeks for our outreach services, through to longer term in our dual occupancy placement homes.
As well as delivering direct 1:1 session, the Education Lead will be responsible for planning educational content, visits and practical activities that are supported by the residential care team around each child, making best use of the skills and experiences of the residential support team, specifically those relating to outdoor activities.
We are looking for candidates with experience of teaching KS2 and KS3, if you have KS4 all the better. You will have experience of behaviour management and promoting positive behaviour. A practical knowledge of SEND would also be beneficial.
We are looking for someone who:
• Is creative and passionate about working with children and able to inspire them to engage
in their learning.
• Ideally have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Able to work across all our service and support up to 6 sites.
• Has the ability to engage children into learning, in a thematic approach.
Benefits:
• 33 days holiday a year, including bank holidays.
• A 24/7 employee assistance and counselling programme
• Above and beyond recognition scheme
• Full funded training for your CPD and recognised qualifications
• Employee medical benefit scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Access to employee engagement events
• Team/peer support programmes and fully supportive management infrastructure
• Ongoing continuous professional development opportunities
Disclosure:
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure as an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer following the safer recruitment process.
About A Wilderness Way
A Wilderness Way Ltd is one of the UK’s leading specialist providers of residential care for children who have suffered trauma and adversity. We provide compassionate, nurturing care for children who are in crisis and have complex needs, supporting them to move from a difficult past to a brighter future.
Our homes are located in the peaceful and inspirational countryside of Cumbria, Northumbria, the Yorkshire Dales National Park and southern Scotland. Here, children experience safety and stability, as well as our renowned spirit of adventure and challenge: the ‘Wilderness Way’. With our support, children are able to thrive.
We believe that learning opportunities exist beyond traditional school settings, and we are passionate about taking the classroom outside wherever possible and making the most of our beautiful surroundings to challenge and inspire our children.
Our offer, which has evolved over time, is now high intensity assessment placements with a desired outcome of successful transition into permanence. Our intention for education is to have a focus on stability, health and wellbeing, relationships and living in the wider world. The aim of our curriculum is to engage students in education and to enable them to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes that they need to be able to manage their lives, now and in the future.
We understand that our students may have been disenchanted with education, and our thematic, inquiry-led approach, and our use of outdoor and experiential learning, offers an exciting and relevant learning experience which encourages personal development, engagement and achievement. With Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education at its core, our curriculum encourages our students to explore their strengths and their potential, to set themselves ambitious and achievable targets and to overcome challenges, now and in their future lives.
We do not disclose the location of these services for reasons of security and safeguarding. However, they are all within a 45 minute drive of our central office, close to junction 41 of the M6.
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