Alternative Education Provider, Trainee Session Leader, Part Time
About This Role
Trainee Session Leader, Alternative Education Provision - Must have experience and training working with children with SEMH/SEND needs.
Are you passionate about helping children in need of support and opportunities? Do you have experience or understanding of the importance of safeguarding? Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role within an Alternative Provision? If you’ve answered YES to any of the above, we want to hear from you!
Farm Club offers interim high dependency support to primary and secondary age students who are struggling to engage socially and academically in the classroom environment. High dependency provision at Farm Club is reflective of our staff ratios, the needs and requirements of the child and their families, as well as the approach that is taken to reintegrate a young person back into mainstream or specialist schooling. As a high dependency provision, we are able to supply outstanding resources, a tailored curriculum and dedicate unwavering time and attention to the children in our care, with careful consideration of the level of need required for each individual.
A career at Farm Club is exciting, ever-evolving and grounded in training and support. Farm Club are seeking a confident individual with a positive attitude and an ability to be highly adaptable. Ideal candidates will have a professional and positive attitude towards supporting young people on their journey through alternative provision.
It is essential that the applicant has experience in working with children with SEMH/SEND needs to join our friendly supportive team. Teaching assistants and candidates with experience of working with children are ideal candidates for this role.
Farm Club is a space for children to learn to understand the importance of following rules and instructions, to work on their ability to emotionally regulate, to receive help and support with communication difficulties, to build an appetite for learning and development and to be supported to develop their social integration and communication skills.
The position of Trainee Session Leader will involve supporting the delivery of sessions for students in line with the Farm Club learning programme. To ensure students are getting maximum benefit from their time with Farm Club, we require an individual with experience who can demonstrate compassion, creativity, vigilance, patience, and resilience.
Trainee Session Leaders will be supported in their development to progress towards becoming Session Leaders. A clear training plan will be developed to support the new recruit in their role.
Hours of Work
We are looking to fill part-time positions, starting at 6 hours per week.
Working hours are term-time only (39 weeks of the year).
The working hours are Monday–Friday, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.
Sessions run from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm and 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm.
Our Safeguarding Priority
Farm Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children. We strictly abide by our Safer Recruitment policy including right to work checks, identification checks, referencing checks and DBS checks. All applicants should be aware that they must undergo child protection screening appropriate for each job role. It’s an offence for any organisation to offer employment that involves regular contact with young people under the age of 18 to anyone who has been convicted of certain specified offences, or those who are included on lists considered unsuitable for such work held by the Department of Education. It is also an offence for people convicted of such offences to apply for work with young people. If you are successful throughout your application, you will be subject to satisfactory completion of an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed.
Further information about the Disclosure and Barring Service can be found at Apply exclusively via the WhatSchool platform. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Farm Club employees are expected to abide by Farm Club’s safeguarding policy, codes of conduct and will attend Safeguarding training through Cambridgeshire County Council.
Must have evidence of relevant training and a minimum of 1 years experience of working with children with SEMH/SEND needs.