Gloucestershire Hospital Education Service's pastoral team is recruiting a Link Tutor for Key Stage 3 and 4 students whose health needs affect their schooling. The work is individual support that keeps students learning and helps them move back to mainstream school, alternative provision or post-16 study, through home visits and multi-agency meetings. It is a peripatetic, county-wide, term-time role of 36 hours, mixing home working, travel and time at the county office. No sponsorship is offered, so candidates need right to work for at least six months.
What the job involves
- Provide individualised pastoral support so students can keep engaging with education
- Plan and facilitate supported transitions back to mainstream school, alternative provision or post-16 destinations
- Make regular contact with students, including home visits, to build relationships and identify barriers to learning
- Recognise key milestones and develop strategies and skills with students, supporting the wellbeing curriculum
- Ensure student voice shapes decisions about each young person's support
- Work with parents and carers, mainstream schools, GHES teaching staff and other professionals
- Liaise with social care and medical professionals
- Attend multi-agency meetings including TAF, CIN, CP, PEP and Graduated Pathway meetings
What’s required
Experience
- Experience of working with children and young people with additional needs
- Understanding of multi-agency working
Skills & knowledge
- Understanding of the Graduated Pathway and a student-centred approach
- Experience of, or good working knowledge of, agencies supporting school-age children
- Places high value on safeguarding and accepts responsibility for keeping children safe
- Well organised, works independently and manages time effectively
- Flexible, creative and solution-focused
- Excellent communication and ability to build professional relationships
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced and barred (children) DBS check
- Right to work enabling at least 6 months' employment
- Fluent spoken English, as this is a customer-facing role
Other
- Good ICT skills, particularly Microsoft applications and SIMS
- Comfortable travelling regularly across the county
What’s offered
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Discounts at major supermarket chains and high street retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme with free, confidential counselling and advice, available 24 hours
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Links to employee networks including Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- Access to Reflectiev Supervision
- Continuous professional development
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
