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Keyworker - The Bridge

Keyworker - The Bridge

St Ivo Academy

Cambridgeshire

  • Expired
Salary:
£20,456-£22,434 per annum [pro rata]
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
November 2016
Apply by:
7 November 2016

Job overview

St Ivo is a large and successful secondary school located in the Cambridgeshire town of St Ives. Awarded 'Good' by Ofsted across all areas in our summer inspection, our school is simply a great community in which to work and thrive. Working alongside a friendly and supportive staff body, our vision is for all to fulfil their potential.

You will support the school's day-to-day work on inclusion by working directly with 11-16 students who require alternative provision for a short-term period. Based from 'the Bridge' (a designated area located within the main school block) you will play a key role in providing a proactive supportive environment for referred students with varying needs.

The successful candidate should ideally have prior experience of working with young people from a range of backgrounds, and will be confident in liaising with both students and a range of professionals in order to ensure holistic support is in place. Experience of working in a similar role and/or in a school environment would be desirable, but more important is an ability to quickly develop positive relationships with both our staff and students. You should be an excellent communicator, ICT literate and must have a flexible approach.

This fulltime post is for a minimum 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks a year [term-time only]

If you are genuinely excited by this opportunity of playing an integral part in the life of our school, please contact Claire Edwards [HR Manager] for an application pack via email at: cedwards@stivoschool.org. Alternatively you can download an application form directly from the school website: www.stivoschool.org/job-vacancies

Closing date: Monday 7th November 2016
Interviews will likely be held during week commencing 11th November 2016

Our School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All new appointments are conditional and subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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About St Ivo Academy

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+44 1480 375400

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St Ivo is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. We have around 1700 students with around 300 in our Sixth Form. The school is 70 years old and is proud of its place within the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work, from supporting students preparing for Oxbridge through to working with the most vulnerable St Ivo embraces everyone.

We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion’, Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything

We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.

We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.


What we offer


  • Huge support and progression opportunities
  • A knowledge rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional T&L approach built around Rosenshine and TLAC
  • Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
  • Excellent support from Astrea central team colleagues
  • Opportunity to teach up to A Level
  • A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
  • Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
  • Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
  • Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organise/chase them at all)
  • No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching, helping you to continuously develop
  • Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region
  • Opportunity to complete NPQs
  • An unrivalled professional progression model
  • A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridgeshire


What we are looking for


  • Highly effective professionals with excellent knowledge in their area of expertise
  • Colleagues who are aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
  • Colleagues who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve.


We look forward to hearing from you.  

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