SEND Support Worker (Full-Time)

Pay competitive salary plus SEN allowance

Ref BEHAVTVKB

Posted Wednesday 20th Sep 2023

Close Date Thursday 19th Oct 2023 (closed)

Key Stage Secondary

Job Description

PURPOSE:     To support AHT for Behaviour in their role and to ensure the running of the EES support program across the school. To help ensure that students are supported in the AR and students with Social, Mental and Emotional Health (SMEH) and other difficulties are appropriately supported. Play a key part in ensuring that students with difficulties are supported and strategies and interventions are implemented to ensure that these students do not prevent the effective teaching and learning of other students.

Responsibilities/Accountabilities include:

• Coordinating the EES calls and directing staff on walk the floor/ SLT on call.
• Arranging the data for EES calls outs.
• Manning the AR room and ensuring work is completed by those in the room.
• Patrolling of the school site and completing the monitoring of the systems whilst on Walk The Floor.
• Supporting the school in order to enhance existing provision in order to facilitate learning, reduce barriers to learning, improve attainment, educational outcomes and promote self-confidence and the emotional well-being of pupils.
• To promote and support education staff deliver learning pathways for pupils to encourage engagement in learning.
• To contribute to school wide knowledge and skills in behaviour management.
• To work with students to assist them in modifying their behaviour through 1:1 mentoring relationships with identified students.
• Challenge students using a high degree of emotional intelligence to minimise difficult situations escalating.
• Support the school with students requiring positive handling.
• To assist with the investigation of incidents, including taking statements from students and to contribute to the writing of reports for students who have been excluded from school such as Pen Pictures and case studies
• Encourage and support other staff on how to deal with difficult behaviours, enabling them to have increased confidence in coming up with strategies to cope with such behaviours.
• Helping pupils to overcome a crisis and deal with the consequences.
• To support a whole school approach to behaviour management, keeping under review skill sets, competencies, systems and effectiveness of methodologies to optimise outcomes for all pupils.
• Liaise and work with parents and carers on a regular basis to ensure that they are aware of the progress of their child and preventive strategies that could help develop the behaviour inside and outside of school developing positive relationships.

Miscellaneous

• To undertake such task as reasonably requested by the Head Teacher, or on their behalf, as are appropriate to this job description.
• To carry out any other duty in line with the responsibility level of the post under the direction of the Head Teacher.
• To promote the School’s Equal Opportunities policy in carrying out all areas of the post.
• To have due regard to the Health and Safety at Work legislation in carrying out all aspects of the post.