Ready to Learn Coordinator

Ready to Learn Coordinator

St Katherine's School

35 hours per week, term time plus 5 INSET days. (2 posts to cover from 8 am to 4.30 pm e.g. 1 x 8 am – 3.30 and 1 x 9 am – 4.30 pm) 

£17,280 - £19,569 per annum

We are seeking to appoint two enthusiastic individuals to run the Ready to Learn facility at St Katherine’s School.  The successful candidates will share the supervision of the Ready to Learn room, ensuring a calm and purposeful working environment, with supporting the pupil academic mentoring programme.  Time will be split evenly between these two activities during the day. 

 This is an exciting opportunity to work with young people and encourage them to be the best they can be.  You will be part of a hard working team committed to improving the student experience and help our school to achieve our goals and ambitions.  

The successful candidate will be:

• able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a school setting, authoritative and fair, well-organised and proactive.  
• a supportive team player, an excellent communicator, with good people-skills, flexible, responsive, self-motivated and confident in handling confidential/sensitive data and information 
• confident in working with young people with emotional and behaviour difficulties and happy to work alone with pupils for long periods of time
• Positive and resilient with the ability to see the best in our young people and encourage them to be the best they can be

Previous experience of working with young people who have social, emotional or mental health difficulties desirable. 

St Katherine’s is an exciting and rewarding place to work where staff work hard to give students rich opportunities to learn, both inside and outside the classroom.  We have a positive attitude to what we can achieve and we work with a can-do approach.  You will find that our values run deep and are represented throughout our work with our young people - see our website  

We are a vibrant, medium sized 11–19 mixed comprehensive school situated on the edge of Bristol, in a beautiful rural setting and part of Cathedral Schools Trust.  We are warm, welcoming and inclusive, and committed to high standards of learning, behaviour and achievement. We offer a creative, supportive and friendly staff team, supported induction and excellent CPD opportunities throughout employment.

Should you wish to visit the school or speak to Mr Hayden Southon, Deputy Headteacher, informally about the role before submitting an application, please contact Julie Moller, Head’s PA, for an appointment mollerj@skdrive.org

Further information about the school, the post and how to apply can be found on the school website.

St Katherine’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to DBS Barred list and Enhanced Disclosure checks.

Closing Date: Midnight 20 March 2019

Interviews will be held during w/c 25 March 2019