Deputy Positive Impact Centre Manager
Deputy Positive Impact Centre Manager SR4 (23—25) (£28,266— £29,913 Actual) (£32,076 — £33,945 FTE) (Based on 37 hours per week, 40 weeks per year) The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Closing Date: Monday 7th October 2024
This is a great opportunity to work as part of tour team of professional staff working in our Positive Impact Centre (PIC). The Ethos within the PIC mirrors that of the school as a whole; the environment is underpinned by the core values; RESPECT - RESILIENCE - ASPIRATION. Enabling students to gain the knowledge of themselves to access the knowledge of the wider curriculum. Supporting students across our 7 strands of impact to become successful in any classroom or wider social environment by providing a personalised learning experience. Strands of Impact: Alternative Provision ( 12 week full-time programme) Wellbeing Interventions Tailored personalised support following a period of absence/suspension Counselling Service Further Mental Health Support Peer Mentoring Programme EAL Provision The PIC offers a firm, consistent, safe learning environment in which pupils can work on and develop their full social, emotional and academic potential. Students will have the opportunity to address challenges and barriers relating to their current behaviour / attitude and adopt practical strategies, coping mechanisms and explore different approaches to grow and develop as a confident learner. To plan and deliver alongside the Senior Leader personal development, PSHE and core subjects (English, maths and science) within the KS3 Alternative Provision. The successful candidate will liaise with other colleagues to create personalised timetables for students with bespoke interventions in order to reduce repeated negative behaviour patterns. Contributing and writing weekly reports, 6 week reviews and a final evaluation of the programme. Focussing on, academic, pastoral and personal progress. Liaising with parents/carers and communicating with colleagues. Preparing reintegration programmes for individual students so they can return into the main school, enabling individuals to access the curriculum, succeed, achieve and learn. To implement agreed short term focussed interventions with individuals/groups within PIC, this could include those requiring support with mental health, wellbeing and behavioural issues. Ensuring all interventions start with a baseline assessment, reviewed and evaluated at the end of the intervention. You will be responsible for tracking the progress of the intervention through in-house systems and feedback key information to Year team, parents and line manager. Our current Interventions include Anger Management, Confidence Building, SelfEsteem, SAIL (self-assurance in life & learning), SEW (social & emotional wellbeing) Motivation, Positive Thinking, Mindfulness, Attachment awareness, Social Skills, protective behaviours and Improving behaviour/handling peer pressure. Working in collaboration with parents/carers, directors & assistant directors of year, create tailored programmes for students on a phased return after a period of absence/ exclusion. Establishing a pathway of support and implement to ensure students successfully reintegrate into the main school.
Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the heart of all that is does?
In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is:
· Built upon strong values and principles
· Places people at the heart of all that it does
· Heavily over-subscribed
· Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded
· A Behaviour Hub Lead School
· The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools
· GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history
· A school of Character
· An Investors in People Gold School
· An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School
· A Global Equality Collective School
· The home of ResearchED Northampton
· A PKC Curriculum Hub
· An Ofsted ‘Good’ school
The school offers competitive working conditions and packages, including:
· Future progression resides at the heart of the school’s ethos
· Personalised and bespoke CPD is offered to all staff
· Opportunities to attend external CPD courses and visiting other schools are positively encouraged
· An enhanced induction programme to support all new staff to the school, with a bespoke package of support for ECT’s.
· Westfield Health - Private Health Plan for permanent, salaried employees
· On-site car parking
· A laptop
· On-site Before & After School Club for Primary Phase pupils available *
· A detailed Workload Charters, which sets out the school’s commitment to support all staff with their workload
· No emails are sent at weekends nor holidays, we respect as a school the need to rest
· Co-planning is a guiding principle upon which our curriculum is built, with the use of workbooks and knowledge organisers across the school
· On-site restaurant for staff to use on a daily basis
· The lion share of directed meeting time is handed to staff to work on the curriculum
· Two faculty away days
· 4 traded days (which includes one day off to thank staff for the extra miles that they go)
· A priority place for staff children at the school
· Face-to-face meetings for all staff with the Principal to discuss your wellbeing, professional development and career aspirations
· Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff
· Membership of the LGPS Pension Scheme for non-teaching staff
For support staff
· Generous Holiday entitlement, including bank holidays (or pro-rata of) which increases with service
· Non-contractual discretionary days leave for school shutdown over Christmas
* Fees apply
Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application
The school takes the workload of employees very seriously and offers the following support : • A flexible approach to PPA, which can be taken off-site • Early finishes for parent consultation events and the opportunity to utilise the gained time as you wish if you are not involved in the event • Use of the TDS swimming pool • Cycle to work scheme • Understanding approach to outside/personal matters • Performance management based on a coaching model • The opportunity to be part of the school’s wellbeing committee • A staff CPD library • A commitment to 8 days’ worth of INSET/CPD • An opportunity to access a huge wider network that we are part of, including NITE, university based ITT providers and the Inspiring Leaders network Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application
Applying: Please complete an application form (we do not accept a CV alone) along with a letter of application to the Principal. Please email the application form and letter to: jobs@thedustonschool.org If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practice and all appointments are subject to satisfactory DBS checks. In addition references will be requested for short listed applicants prior to interview and will form part of the interview process. Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates