Primary Behaviour Outreach Worker

Hours: 37 hours per week, term time only, plus five INSET days

Cranbury College is a pioneering Trauma Informed Alternative Provision school catering for 5 – 18-year-olds, based in Reading. 

We have a team of passionate and hardworking teachers and support staff who want to help change the lives of young people every single day. Each child is cared for and made to feel safe under our supervision. Each child deserves a champion, an adult who never gives up on them and who understands the power of connection, insisting they become the best they can possible be. This is what our team do. The work can be challenging but the rewards are limitless. 

With this is mind we are looking to strengthen the Primary Outreach team and want to appoint a resilient and outgoing Primary Behaviour Outreach Worker to join our fun and lively team. You will be based at our primary site supporting staff and primary students but will be required to offer support in the local primary schools also. This is a challenging but very rewarding role supporting some of the most vulnerable pupils in Reading. The ability to build strong relationships is essential. 

The main responsibilities are as follows:

• To assist the Primary Behaviour Support Officer in working with individuals, groups of children and staff teams in mainstream primary, by delivering intervention and support programmes.
• Improve social, emotional, and academic outcomes for children and young people through the development of positive relationships with all stakeholders and the effective planning and delivery intervention and support programmes.
• To ensure the development and effective implementation of programmes and curriculum that meets the needs of young people at risk of exclusion, to improve their behaviour and reduce that risk by continuous review and sharing of good practise. 

The successful applicant will have a proven track record of relevant work with young people in a field such as Education, Youth Work, Health or Social Services. Additionally, you will have a demonstrable passion for transforming the lives of young people coupled with an abundance of enthusiasm which will encourage engagement and commitment from our students. 

Cranbury College has recently joined the Maiden Erlegh Trust family of schools, whose motto is “schools for the community, schools as a community”. The aim for every school in the Trust, whilst espousing their values and ethos, and having a core of common policies and procedures, will serve its own community’s needs in a bespoke way and also create a feeling of community within its own school. In that way all the potential and talents of every child and every member of staff will be nurtured. 

Being part of the Maiden Erlegh Trust also offers a range of career opportunities in its vibrant and successful schools.We are very happy to discuss flexible working arrangements including part-time working and job-sharing. 

Closing date: 9am, 30 June 2023

Interviews: Shortly after the closing date

Visits to our school are encouraged please email recruitment@maidenerleghtrust.org who can help organise this. 

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint before the closing date.

Maiden Erlegh Trust is committed to safeguarding, equality and promoting the welfare of children and staff. We are also committed to being ambitious for all and supporting everyone to reach their full potential. All employees of the Trust are expected to share these commitments. All posts require satisfactory employment checks and references and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. All Leadership roles will require a Section 128 check.