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About the role
We are seeking a warm, proactive and resilient Intervention & Engagement Lead to support students within our Achievement Centre at a secondary school in Durham.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced education professional who can combine a nurturing and understanding approach with clear boundaries, high expectations and a strong focus on student engagement.
The Achievement Centre provides support for students with additional needs who may require time away from mainstream lessons. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring that students receive appropriate support, remain engaged in their learning and are encouraged to access mainstream lessons wherever possible.
This is a varied role requiring excellent relationship-building skills, confident behaviour management, strong organisational ability and the flexibility to support the wider SEN team.
Key responsibilities
- Student support and relationships: Create a welcoming, safe and supportive environment for students with a range of special educational needs and individual support requirements.
- Reintegration into lessons: Recognise when students need additional support and when they are ready to return to mainstream lessons. Encourage and support reintegration, maintaining clear boundaries around the appropriate use of the Achievement Centre.
- Behaviour management: Manage challenging behaviour calmly, consistently and confidently, addressing disengagement, disruption and attempts to avoid lessons.
- Learning and engagement: Ensure students have appropriate work to complete, remain on task and are supported to make productive use of their time in the centre.
- Understanding individual needs: Quickly develop an understanding of students' needs, triggers, support strategies and individual approaches, adapting practice accordingly. xgikmsk
- Administration and record-keeping: Maintain accurate registers, monitor student attendance within the centre and ensure records are kept up to date.
- SEN team support: Complete administrative and organisational tasks to support the wider SEN team, contributing to the eff Please click on the apply button to read the full job description
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