Student Support Assistant
Southfield School for Girls
Northamptonshire
- £18,861 - £20,820 pro rata
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Orbis Payscale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 6 February 2023
Job overview
SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL
Student Support Assistant
Hours: 40 hours per week
Working Pattern: 8.00am to 4.30pm (Monday to Friday)
Number of Weeks Worked: 38 weeks term time plus an additional 2 training days.
Salary: Orbis Scale Points 10 – 14 £20,522 - £22,653. Actual pro-rata salary: £18,861 - £20,820
Pension: Local Government Pension Scheme
Do you want to join a vibrant, forward-thinking school that places significant value on professional learning and career development? Southfield is an exceptional girls’ school with a mixed Sixth Form. With very strong outcomes that sustained over recent years, this is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our ongoing journey of expansion and development. Our new Sixth Form building has recently opened with state of the art facilities, including a lecture theatre, bespoke coffee shop and a dedicated Professional Learning space for our staff.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Student Support Assistant to join a friendly and supportive pastoral team based at Southfield School. We require a proactive individual to support and address the needs of students who require particular help to overcome barriers to learning including behaviour and attendance.
The successful candidate would ideally have experience working with children, be an excellent communicator with strong safeguarding knowledge who will maintain confidentiality at all times whilst working to achieve the best possible outcomes and wellbeing for our students.
Ethical leadership is at the core of all decision making at Southfield. As such, staff are valued, treated with respect and afforded a diverse range of opportunities that come with professional trust. We place significant emphasis on working collegiately as a staff to share our expertise and subsequently enhance the learning experience with our students.
Staff wellbeing is important to us, and we offer a range of benefits to support our employees including:
- Westfield Health Plan
- Discounts at retailers and holiday companies
- Free Parking
- Onsite gym
- Flexible working opportunities.
- Staff Wellbeing Day
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Professional Development
Further details including a full job description are available on our website www.southfieldsch.co.uk To apply for this post, please complete an application form and submit this along with a covering letter on not more than one side of A4.
Applications and any queries should be submitted to recruitment@southfieldsch.co.uk
Closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 6th February 2023
Southfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to undergo enhanced DBS clearance. The school is committed to Equal Opportunities in Employment.
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About Southfield School for Girls
- Southfield School for Girls
- Lewis Road, Kettering
- Northamptonshire
- NN15 6HE
- United Kingdom
Southfield School is a girls-only, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary school with co-educational sixth form situated in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
The school first opened in 1976 as an amalgamation of Kettering High School for Girls and Rockingham Road Senior Girls School. It fought off closure declarations from the local authority and went on to thrive, gaining specialist sports status in 2004 and science college status in 2009. In 2021 Southfield School became part of Orbis Education Trust which comprises of:
- Southfield School, 11-18 years of age, single sex (mixed sixth form), 1,200 place secondary school (Ofsted rating – Good, with outstanding features (April 23).
- Kingsthorpe College, 11-18 years of age, mixed sex, 1,500 place secondary school (Ofsted rating – Good, December 2019).
- A third school will soon join the Orbis family: Hanwood Park School, 900 place secondary school.
Headteacher
Scott Nevett
Values and vision
Southfield aims to provide for the future needs of our students. Careers and types of employment opportunities are evolving and changing continually. Some are yet to be created and so we see it as our obligation to prepare our students to be competitive in anticipation of the unknown. Therefore, our strong focus on academic attainment is equalled by our commitment to develop transferable skills and personal characteristics through the many opportunities we provide.
We provide an education that prepares our young people for a future in which they will need to be adaptable, resourceful and ethical in facing complex challenges. Being a Southfield student will mean the chance to be successful and have a positive influence on the global community. We aim for all of our students to be able to make an impact and leave a positive imprint on the world.
We nurture our students with the future in mind today.
Our shared values of Optimism, Resilience, Balance, Individuality and Synergy.
Ofsted report
As you will read, we continue to be a good school with two aspects of the inspection judgements deemed to be ‘Outstanding’. The first is the superb Personal Development our students receive, which includes opportunities such as; our bespoke Healthy Living and form time curriculums, careers guidance, our enrichment and electives programme, clubs, trips, DofE, and the CCF. The second area is the exemplary Sixth Form provision we provide for all of our Post-16 students.
We are immensely proud of the wealth of positive aspects of our school highlighted in the report and would like to thank the whole school community for their continued support and positive engagement with our journey.
Even though we are proud of how this report shows the best of Southfield, we are not complacent. It goes without saying that everyone involved with the school wants to continue moving the school forward, positively, with high expectations across the board.
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