Transition Officer
Foxes Academy
Somerset
- £24,000 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- 40 hours per week- 52 weeks
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 January 2022
Job overview
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Salary: £24,000.00
Hours: 40 hours per week- 52 weeks
Contract: 12 month FTC
Aurora Foxes is a truly remarkable place, having received its third consecutive ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted report it offers a wide range of support to young people with disabilities looking for training that will help them get in to the world of work.
The main purpose of the role:
As our Transition Officer, you will work alongside our Work Placement Job coach with supporting students into work plaements and at work placements when necessary. You will support students and parents through transition out of Aurora Foxes Academy and into employment and supported living.
The Transition Officer role is truly rewarding, and you will play a vital role in ensuring our students are able to thrive and live independantly once they leave full time education.
Key duties:
- Arrange suitable work experience placements for students in liaison with Education, care, and the Hotel.
- Take responsibility for driving students to work placements and keeping up to date with driver checks as required.
- Source local work experience providers and ensure that new providers are equipped to support and safeguard our students.
- Ensure that all students are appropriately risk assessed for areas and activities in work experience placements.
- Build and maintain good relationships with our work placement providers and ensure honest communication about students, including thorough risk assessments and Health and Safety documentation.
- Support students and parents through Transition out of Aurora Foxes Academy, into employment and supported living.
- Develop relationships with housing organisations to support the transition into independent living.
- Liaise with House Team Leaders, students, and parents to ensure that the accommodation sourced will best match the students' needs and aspirations.
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.
For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com
Skills and Qualifications
- Strong IT skills and an excellent telephone manner.
- Experience with working with young adults with learning difficulties.
- Desirable, experience in communicating with social workers and housing associations.
- Desirable, Careers advice Level 4 but not essential as training available for the right candidate.
- Desirable good knowledge of the SEND code of practice
- You will be a team player who is confident self-starter and finisher who can work independently.
- Desirable, experience of creating and pursuing good transition plans.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
- Full training and continued support
- Life assurance and pension
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box
- Free parking
For more information on this position please contact 07970 169223 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
Attached documents
About Foxes Academy
- Foxes Academy
- The Esplanade, Selbourne Place, Minehead
- Somerset
- TA24 5TY
- United Kingdom
If we had to capture the essence of Aurora Foxes, it would be employability and independence for adulthood. We strive daily to be the very best and we will continue to do so, to ensure that graduates from Aurora Foxes are: work ready, life ready.
Mark Costello - Principal
Our College"I think people should come to Foxes to work on their independence skills. I have been learning about shopping and budgeting. I can now travel to Taunton on the bus, which is 24 miles away to get to my work experience. My work experience is amazing, I serve customers and do the drinks. I hope to live in a supported living flat when I graduate, because I have all the skills I learnt at Foxes." — George
"I love Foxes because it is an amazing place to be. I love all of the sessions. I like 'Moving On' because you learn to cook and to do your personal shopping. There are so many activities to choose from. The activity I like to do the most is Mindfulness, because I like to do the yoga. I really like Ballroom Dancing, my favourite is the Waltz. I like Minehead Eye because I love the singing. You should come to Foxes because you'll like all the sessions and activities that we do!" — Rebecca
"I like working on going out independently. I like to go shopping independently and I have been on the bus to Dunster to go to the cafe with my friends. I am now travel training to get to my work experience, which is really good. You will learn to do things independently that will help you in the future." — Zac
Accommodation
Aurora Foxes has residential accommodation throughout the safe community of Minehead. Each student has a fully furnished room, as part of a comfortable, caring and happy home.
Each house has a highly experienced Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader and Learner Support Practitioners. There is a wide range of accommodation to meet individual needs. The accommodation ranges from 5 - 16 bedrooms. The students are carefully placed in their accommodation following a robust risk assessment process.
By their final year, students can be living in a small group in one of our independent flats where they have to do as much as possible for themselves; getting themselves up, washing, dressing, travelling to work experience independently, shopping, cooking and cleaning. Just like any young person in further education!
Foxes Hotel
Foxes Hotel is a delightful Victorian seaside hotel in Minehead on the Exmoor coast and is the UK’s only fully operational training hotel for young people with learning disabilities. From day one, our students have the opportunity to gain valuable practical work experience, learning all the skills needed to have a successful working life in the hospitality sector.
To learn more about our hotel, please click here.
The Flying Fox
Aurora Foxes has been in a partnership with Hilton for 8 years. The Hilton Global Foundation donated a grant to Aurora Foxes, which facilitated the purchase of The Flying Fox catering truck.
This has expanded our vocational training space, and has provided our students with the opportunity to transfer their work skills within this unique environment.
Our Community
An important and unique quality of Foxes, which is often remarked upon by visiting parents, is our location. Foxes is located right in the heart of the community. Students are therefore prepared every day for engaging in town life. This valuable experience helps to shape our students and prepare them for life after Foxes, as well as helping to reinforce independent living skills. As the second-biggest employer in Minehead, Foxes forms a signification proportion of the population of the town and is held in high regard by the community for the valuable part we play in shaping the culture of our town and community. This is especially helpful for students who may initially struggle with being out in unfamiliar spaces, as students become more familiar with being able to seek out a safe and friendly face. Over the course of their time with us, students become more confident in accessing the many facilities and events that are on offer and these experiences will form a solid foundation for life beyond their time with us.
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