Job Introduction
At Linwood Campus
Permanent
BCP Council Grade F, points 12 – 17 £26,421 - £28,770 per annum FTE
Actual salary £19,873 for 32.5 hours per week
Linwood School has an exciting opportunity for those currently in a Teaching Assistant or in a pastoral support role. We are looking for a Regulation and Engagement worker to support students at our Linwood Campus.
We are currently on a journey to revolutionise the approaches and our practice around regulation and engagement (formally known as behaviour management/support.)
Trauma informed practice and fundamentally understanding that ‘behaviour is communication’ are what is underpinning our current approaches. The PACE team (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy) are a new dynamic team who will be fundamental in the strategic development of the Pace Team who will use their Regulation & Engagement training, Positive Handling training and experience to provide high quality interventions to help our students maintain their regulation during the school day.
Some examples of the interventions you might use could be in class supporting and modelling plans to help students maintain their regulation, create intuitive support plans and personalised learning as well as creating and running Nurture Groups to help students become regulated to enable them to return to the learning environment.
You will also be required to make records of regulation and engagement incidents ensuring they are recorded accurately and in a timely manner, adhering to policies and procedures as required. You will help write and implement Personalised Regulation and Engagement Plans alongside class teams.
These roles will be overseen by our PACE lead, Andy Maher, Assistant headteacher who oversees the Pace Team across Linwood School.
We are seeking applicants who clearly demonstrate: -
- An ability to be solution focused using your training and experience.
- An alignment to the values of the school and how you use them to enhance your work with our students.
- Knowledge and understanding of positive, pro-active strategies to support wellbeing, engagement and regulation in practice.
- Demonstrate a commitment to addressing root causes of dysregulation in order to secure the best outcomes for individual students.
Closing date: midnight on Sunday 3rd March 2024
Interviews: w/c 11th March 2024
All applications should be submitted to hr@linwood.bournemouth.sch.uk
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our young people and the successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced DBS check as well as an overseas criminal records check, if worked or lived outside the UK within the past 10 years. Offers of employment are also subject to satisfactory references, health and right to work checks.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. If the role is exempt, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed, and if they are disclosed, we cannot take them into account.
All Linwood School staff are expected to adhere to our policies and procedures in respect of safeguarding and child protection, including Keeping Children Safe in Education and Guidance for adults working with children and young people in an education setting.
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