Personalised Learning Centre Co-ordinator

Your new School
At this academy, they are dedicated to providing the best education for every child. The school is welcoming, and a supportive environment places students at the heart of everything we do. They focus on fostering a culture of success and creating a positive climate for learning.

Your new role
To manage the PLC Centre:
Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify and keep records of cohorts of students for the alternative curriculum by liaising with the relevant Learning Managers;
• Deliver alternative courses relevant to cohorts of students to provide them with relevant qualifications;
• Liaise with external agencies to find appropriate pathways for the students involved to ensure the vulnerable students are provided with the best possible education;
• Liaise with parents to improve students' behaviour, self-esteem, achievement, attainment and aspirations;
• Establish, develop and maintain effective and supportive mentoring and other supportive relationships with children and young people and those engaged with them;
• To manage the supervision of vulnerable pupils with specialist intervention such as sexual health, anger management;
• Contribute to the comprehensive assessment of children and young people entering educational establishments and the review of their progress and achievements. Working collaboratively with specialist support services and academy staff;
• To support the sharing of information between local agencies, schools, authorities and other learning mentors, and be the single point of contact for accessing a range of community and business-based programmes and specialist support services, for example the Social and Youth Services, the Education Welfare Service, the Probation and Youth Offending Services etc.;
• To work collaboratively with local agencies to offer complementary programmes of support for youngsters in academy where applicable;
• Develop, agree and implement a time-bound action plan with groups and individual children and young people and those involved with them based on a comprehensive assessment of their strengths and needs. Develop SMART targets and activities to remove barriers to learning
• Undertake testing to identify student needs/barriers e.g. Lucid, visual stress etc;
• To support, direct and encourage pupils to undertake further education, apprenticeships or employment after compulsory education.

Additional Responsibilities

• Deal with any immediate problems or emergencies according to the academy's policies and procedures;
• Respect confidential issues linked to home/students/teacher/academy work following the Trust's Data Protection and Freedom of Information Policy;
• Fire Marshall duties in the case of fire and/or emergency evacuation where applicable;
• To comply with the academy's Child Safeguarding Procedures, including regular liaison with the academy's Designated Child Safeguarding Person over any safeguarding issues or concerns;
• To comply with the academy policies and procedures at all times;
• Undertake other reasonable duties (with competence and experience) as requested, in accordance with the changing needs of the organisation.

What you'll need to succeed
Qualifications

• Level 2 qualifications in English and Maths or equivalent
• Willingness and ability to obtain and/or enhance qualifications and training and development in the post

Experience

• Experience of working in a school environment with young people with specific difficulties and vulnerabilities
• Experience and knowledge of issues affecting students and young people and how to offer supportive assistance

Skills

• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences
• Ability to support students with their work and to develop programmes of work that will develop self-esteem and confidence
• Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to use standard ICT packages including Microsoft Office
• Time management and organisation skills
• Ability to work with students and have a real interest in the issues faced by this age group

Other

• Satisfactory DBS Check

What you'll get in return

• A comprehensive induction and training process
• Automatic enrolment into an increasingly rare and valuable defined Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates
• Flexible family friendly policies from day one
• Enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period
• Holidays: A minimum of 25 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service)
• A range of working patterns are available depending upon the role.

Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme, which gives you and your family members free access to:

• Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
• Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
• Legal guidance
• Financial guidance and debt counselling
• Child and dependent care support and advice
• Support for managers

We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing strategy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies.

Other benefits include:

• Free flu vaccinations
• Free onsite parking
• Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
• Access to various discount sites

What you need to do now

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