High Close School - Day Unit Project Worker (20070)

High Close is a successful non maintained special school offering day and residential provision for young people with complex social, emotional and mental health needs. Staff within the care teams support young people to be able to access their education and enable them to learn and develop social skills and coping strategies whilst providing them opportunities to experience new challenges and adventures.   

It's a challenging environment, calling for resilience, patience and tolerance, helping us to ensure children can achieve success in a safe environment.   Staff have the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team including Education, Therapy and Family Resource Team. Staff are given extensive training to meet the needs of the young people including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention.    

This is an excellent opportunity to work within our professional and highly motivated Primary school team providing holistic care to ensure the best outcomes for our young people. You will be required to work Monday to Friday. Care staff work additional hours during term time so they can have 13 weeks paid holiday a year. Staff are also given a paid day off on their birthday and there are a number of other wellbeing supports available to staff such as the Employee Assistance Programme and perks scheme 

The starting rate of pay is £24,398.  

For further information please contact Natalie Potter on 0118 9785767. 

 Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. Applicants must be willing to undergo relevant pre-employment checks, including references being taken up prior to interview, online checks and for the successful candidate, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, in line with the Keeping Children Safe in Education Statutory Guidance.  

As part of your application, you will need to provide full details of your employment since leaving secondary education, starting with your current or most recent employment first and then by working backwards, including reasons for leaving. Please also include any periods of voluntary work and/or training, providing reasons for any periods not in employment, education or training. 
 

Read further about our commitment to safeguarding and our pre-employment checks in our applicant information sheet on the link.