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About the role

Join our Young People Service to support the expansion and development of the Skills and Education offer, with this exciting opportunity. You would be joining a high performing and innovative team, committed to improving outcomes for children and young people, many of whom have not had successful experiences in education or are not in education training and employment. Whilst sat under the Youth Justice structure, this role will also support children from across the Young People’s Service as a whole. You would be managed by the Youth Justice Education and Skills Manager and would be a key member of the wider Education and Skills Team. In addition to this, you would be joining our current specialist tutor in the expansion of an outstanding tutoring team.

We currently have 1 full time permanent position at grade 8.

The young people of Southampton need someone who is passionate about education and improving the lives of young people, recognising the barriers they often face, as well as the complexities of their needs. They deserve a champion who is passionate about their success and will nurture not only high expectations of themselves, but also of partners and providers across the city and beyond.

About you

We are looking for someone who celebrates the strengths of our young people, finding creative and innovative strategies to support those who require additional help to do so. Within our service, we believe passionately in the power of positive relationships, and it is imperative that the person in this role will successfully build these in a Trauma and Attachment informed way. Within this role, the successful applicant will be expected to use these positive relationships to motivate young people to bring about positive change, that supports a future with high aspiration and positive outcomes. This post requires someone who is kind, consistent and compassionate about everyone they work with.

You will be working in a challenging but supportive environment, working in both small group as well as through 1:1 delivery styles. You will be designing and delivering a varied and highly bespoke curriculum, that meets the needs of children with a range of complex needs. The post will require innovative and engaging delivery styles, to support children with developing a passion for learning and raising aspirations.

You will work with the education and skills team, to drive forward the alternative provision and accreditation agenda in the hub. This role also includes the tracking of achievement and progress, to celebrate each child’s strengths and growth, which can be shared within their professional network. It is therefore particularly important to bring a creative and innovative approach to the work, finding engaging ways for children to demonstrate their strengths and to creatively capture evidence of progress.

The successful candidate needs to have an excellent understanding of developing positive relationships with the children in our care. This is particularly important as we grow our provision to ensure we have the role models, support, and most importantly passionate practitioners around our young people.

We will give you the training and development you need to be at the forefront of classroom delivery for children with a number of barriers to accessing education. As well as this, you will be working alongside experienced, committed, and enthusiastic staff, focused on child centred and trauma informed practice.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with young people with complex backgrounds and challenging behaviours, and will be able to implement a variety of approaches to bridge any potential learning gaps. They will have experience of working in school environments, working with groups of children, delivering teaching sessions and will understand the complex educational landscape to be able to support our education colleagues in the achievement of re-integration to education. The candidate will also be familiar with educational progress measures, to support in the delivery of target setting and goals for not only our school colleagues, but also around Laser accreditation pathways for all children across the young people service.

This exciting role is a highly rewarding one, working with a team passionately advocating for children who often do not have a voice, and supporting them to create positive changes. We pride ourselves on the quality of our delivery and strive to be at the forefront of Attachment and Trauma informed practice.

Our young people’s hub where you will be based, has been designed by young people and is an amazing place to work. It has a common room space, a kitchen, a music room and skills area where young people can learn to be a barista, bike mechanic, learn hairdressing and much more! We hope to increase the activity and learning space as we grow, with a new innovative classroom space due to be opened for September. We are looking for someone that has aspiration and vision, to join a team who are passionate about achieving great things, and making significant impact on improving opportunities for the children in our city.

What we can offer you:

Salary: The salary band for this role is £37,280 - £40,778 per annum. The starting salary is £37,280 with annual progression through the salary bands.

Here at SCC we have a range of different benefits, a few examples can be found below.

• Excellent local government pension with 15.2% employer contribution
• Death in service benefit of x3 salary, and optional salary sacrifice shared cost AVC (additional voluntary contribution)
• Generous holiday 25–31 days, based on role and service
• Flexible working options (role-dependent)
• Family-friendly policies - Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Shared/Unpaid Parental Leave, Time off for Dependents
• Training and development, including coaching and mentoring
• Health and wellbeing support - Employee Assistance Programme, Menopause Pledge, Mental Health First Aiders and access to a variety of staff networks
• Veteran-friendly employer with the Armed Forces Covenant
• Retail discounts and savings through the Southampton City Council benefits platform
• Discounted memberships at local sports and fitness centres
• Sustainable travel benefits - low emission car scheme, cycle to work, season ticket loans
• Employee volunteering scheme with 2 paid days leave to volunteer

For further information on our benefits package please visit: Employee benefits (southampton.gov.uk)

Contact details for informal discussion:

For further information and details regarding the role, please contact Hannah Lothian, Education and Skills Manager on 07713056378 or Hannah.Lothian@southampton.gov.uk

Recruitment contact details:

Email: recruitment@southampton.gov.uk
Tel: 023 8083 4033

For more information about SCC please visit Southampton City Council
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