Student Support Co-ordinator

Term-time only

At Northolt High School, our vision, mission and values underpin everything that we do. We want our students to develop strength of character, to be articulate and confident and to secure the best academic outcomes possible. We have recently updated our school vision, which is "committed to excellence". This summarises our core aim of continuous improvement. Our mission statement describes how we work to achieve this core aim - through "seizing opportunity, instilling ambition, realising potential". Join us and you will be welcomed by a hard-working, dedicated staff team who are united in their focus on student achievement.

We’re at an exciting time in our development of our innovative school improvement partnership with Sycol. Through this, all members of staff in the school are part of a high quality leadership development programme. We run termly innovation improvement projects to ensure that systematic school improvement is embedded in everything we do. These projects involve every member of staff which helps us quickly and effectively share ideas whilst forging strong partnerships across the staff team.

We are a small school at the moment with ambition to grow in size in the coming years, with a new building project on the horizon to help us with this. Despite our small size, we maintain a broad and balanced curriculum offer for all students. Our ambition is for the school to have a STEAM focus (the ‘A’ is for Art). As part of the our facilities planning process we plan to introduce a unique curriculum in Robotics to support students’ learning in STEAM subjects, whilst at the same time improving our performing arts and other curriculum learning spaces.

This role involves the line management of our pastoral and mentoring team. This team is responsible for running our mentoring provision and for supporting students who are sent from lessons into our Internal Exclusion Room. We have this year been awarded funding from the GLA to run an innovative Stepping Stones mentoring programme for our Year 7 students which is proving to be very successful. We are planning to build on this by devising a programme for Year 8 students next year. Students also benefit from mentoring provision from a range of external services.

We are looking for excellent practitioners who will:

• Play a full part in termly innovation projects to contribute to the development of schoolwide continuous improvement;
• Develop an outstanding mentoring provision and behaviour support provision for our students;
• Raise the profile of the department through contributions to the wider life of the school.

We can offer you:

• Great support and training as you develop your career;
• The opportunity to innovate and bring in new ideas to contribute towards improving our school;
• A caring and supportive professional environment;
• A thoughtful and well-structured school calendar with careful attention paid to balancing workload.

A Job Description & Person Specification plus an application form can be found on our website : www.northolthigh.org.uk  Please email your application to the Headteacher’s PA at: lweeks@northolthigh.org.uk  

Closing date : 9am, Wednesday 3 April 2019

Interviews to be held on Thursday 4 April 2019

The school is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment processes are always robustly followed. Successful candidates’ appointment will be subject to safer recruitment checks and satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check.. Further information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about