Emotional Literacy and Social Skills Coordinator
Nottingham Academy
Nottingham
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 24 January 2017
Job overview
16-17/NAR/030
Are you looking for a role where you can really help to make a difference to the life chances of young people?
The successful Emotional Literacy and Social Skills Coordinator will take a lead role in supporting Teachers and Senior Leaders in addressing the needs to pupils to overcome barriers to learning and help increase levels of achievement. This will include working with small groups and on a one to one basis with pupils.
Hours: 37 hours a week, term time (39 weeks)
Salary: £17,891 - £22,434 per annum (£15,225 - £19,090 pro-rata)
The Nottingham Academy is a multi-site academy with new and refurbished buildings, offering pupils and staff an outstanding learning environment. Each site is led by a Head of School in conjunction with the Lead Principal, Ged Rae. The most recent Ofsted in November 2015 judged the academy as continuing to be ‘Good’ and commented that despite its increasing size, it feels calm and orderly and has an atmosphere focused on learning.
The ideal candidates will:
- be able to demonstrate a range of behaviour management strategies
- be well organised and have high expectations of achievement and behaviour
- have the ability to engage constructively with and relate to a wide range of young people and their parents/carers from different backgrounds
- be able to act as a professional role model at all times
- be able to give suitable advise to pupils on both an academic and a social level.
The academy is part of the Greenwood Academies Trust, which offers great development and progression opportunities, an attractive pension scheme and tax efficient childcare vouchers. You will be required to work term time only so this is reflected in the pro-rata’d salary.
For further information, please visit: http://www.greenwoodacademies.org/vacancy/11649/
Alternatively, please call our Recruitment Line on 0115 748 3344
Closing date: 24 January 2017 at noon
We also please ask that you complete our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form by visiting: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NDNDSQ2
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks, therefore, all posts within the Trust are subject to an enhanced DBS with Barred List check.
The Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
About Nottingham Academy
- Nottingham Academy
- Ransom Drive, Mapperley, Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- NG3 5LR
- United Kingdom
Nottingham Academy Ransom Road is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational secondary school situated in Mapperley, Nottingham. The academy has a ‘schools within a school’ model and has two other sites: Greenwood Road and Sneinton Boulevard, together offering 3,780 places for students between the ages of 3-19. Ransom Road has a capacity for 900 students from Year 7 to Year 11.
Nottingham Academy Ransom Road opened in 2009. The school belongs to Greenwood Academies Trust along with 33 other academies across the UK. The Ransom Road site has specialist science, technology and art blocks, along with a sports centre.
Values and vision
Nottingham Academy Ransom Road wants to ensure that all students gain the best possible education in a calming and nurturing learning environment. It wishes for students to work to the best of their ability and achieve excellence. The secondary school wishes to provide children with a varied curriculum and aims to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities for them to get involved in, ranging from sports to and performing arts to homework clubs. Nottingham Academy Ransom Road strives to build a solid partnership where pupils, parents and staff work together to achieve excellence.
Ofsted
“The lessons spark the pupils’ and learners’ interest. The teachers use a range of techniques appropriate to the different age ranges and use good subject knowledge well, including in the sixth form. The teachers welcome pupils and learners into lessons actively, which helps to get the lessons off to a positive start”.
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