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Intensive Support Advisor - Full-time

St Augustine Academy, Maidstone

  • Ref:KCC886-4000-246S
  • Posted:16/05/2023
  • Pay: WAT Grade F £22,159 - £24,294 (£25,878 - £28,371)
  • Start Date:To Be Confirmed
  • App Close Date:19/06/2023 at 23:15
  • Interviews:Shortly after closing date

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We are seeking a highly motivated Intensive Support Advisor to join an excellent, nurturing and supportive secondary school. This role is vital to ensuring students receive the support they need to excel to their maximum potential. You will be effective in providing emotional wellbeing and safeguarding advice to students and families in need and support and refer to our Designated Safeguarding Lead. This is a maternity cover for up to one year and we are hoping that a handover will be possible to go through the role with the current post holder.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide individual one to one sessions, through a referral system, to students who are experiencing emotional difficulties, at risk of disengagement or vulnerability.

On average you will see 4 students a day which will give time to complete additional work and planning per student and will offer 6-8 sessions per student which can be reviewed if further sessions are required. The DSL will support your decisions with your caseload and help you to work through any more complex cases.

• Work collaboratively as part of a friendly and supportive team, with teachers, support staff, parents and external agencies to ensure that students receive appropriate support and sign posting.

• Responsible for managing referrals to the NELFT Emotional Wellbeing Practitioners and meeting with them termly, as well as referring on to the NELFT Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service for the more at risk young people.

• You will also be the lead practitioner with The Rosewood, a local health school that takes short term placements for students at St Augustine. This will include completing referrals for placements and visiting any of our students based there and offering them intensive support onsite.

• Maintain accurate records of all sessions and interventions and complete termly caseload updates for your line manager.

• Attend termly supervision sessions to support the managing of your caseload for your own wellbeing and to seek advice from another mental health practitioner regarding the cases you are working with.

Requirements:

Desirable

• Experience of working one to one with young people who have experienced trauma.

• Have previous experience of providing mental health support to young people.

• Have a good understanding of the challenges and pressures facing young people in today's society.

Essential

• High level of empathy

• Adaptable, person centred approach.

• Creative and innovative practice.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Parking on-site and easy access to local train stations. This school is proud to be an Ofsted-rated Good school, with a supportive and dynamic team of staff who are passionate about providing the best possible archway to adulthood for their students.

If have a passion for supporting young people and are ready to make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. Please apply as soon as possible, as we are looking to fill this role quickly.

WAT Pay Scale: Grade F - £22,159 - £24,294 (£25,878 - £28,371 full time equivalent)

Information about the school

St Augustine Academy is a non-selective 11-16 school in Maidstone who is dedicated to fostering excellence in education. We pride ourselves on our supportive community, innovative teaching methods, and commitment to the personal development of both students and staff.

Our Christian Ethos helps to make our school a thoughtful community and we are welcoming, positive and open to pupils and staff of all faiths and none.

Our Academy has a calm purposeful atmosphere. We strive to broaden horizons and challenge our students to achieve their potential. We offer a rigorous academic curriculum, a strong behaviour policy.

We are committed to continual CPD and a positive work life balance for staff. We offer additional training days, support staff to complete additional qualifications and remove unnecessary workload.

We are one of six Academies which make up the Woodard Academies Trust (WAT). WAT is part of the Woodard family of schools. Created by founder Nathaniel Woodard in 1848, Woodard is the largest group of independent Church of England schools in England and Wales. Woodard Academies Trust and Woodard Schools share a common ethos and vision: to inspire young people to make a difference.

Our ethos reflects our deep commitment to delivering an outstanding education to the students we teach. We prioritise inclusion and value individuals, and excel in delivering pastoral care and personalised learning paths for our students. Our aim is to offer students not only a first-class education, but also to teach them life skills that will provide benefits beyond their time with us. We believe that our academies should enrich the communities they serve and play an active role in their development.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.