Education Support Worker - Norwich, United Kingdom - City College Norwich

City College Norwich

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Norwich, United Kingdom

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Education Support Worker (ESW) within Student Services

37 hours per week, 36 weeks per year

£20,146 - £21,628 per annum

£15,995 to £17,172 per annum pro rata Term Time

Are you considering a career in education, social care or supporting vulnerable people and not sure where to start? See below for details on the ESW 2-year development plan and where this role could take you long term.

The purpose of the ESW role is to support a discreet group of students, defined by the College as vulnerable young people.

This currently includes students that are currently or have been Looked After (L.A.C.).

You will join a busy team in our student services Wellbeing Team where you will support a caseload of students to engage well with their education and in doing so have the best chance of being successful on their course.

You will work closely with a widevariety of professionals including our internal College Wellbeing Team and teaching delivery teams as well as external Social Workers, Support Workers and Carers all from a number of different Local Authorities.

The role is focussed on co-ordinating and contributing to support meetings such as Personal Education Plan (PEP) meetings, communicating planned targets, actions and progress to teaching delivery staff, parents / carers, and managers as well as monitoringand supporting individual students to attain consistent attendance and performance.

The ideal applicants would have a level 2 or equivalent qualification and previous experience working in an educational, youth work or residential care setting.

The ability to work to timescales whilst maintaining an empathetic approach, having knowledge of L.A.C, Leaving Care and U.A.S.C. processes and an understanding of Mental Health difficulties students may face will be beneficial.

These roles include occasional home working as well as flexible site working.

Previous post holders have come from a variety of working backgrounds such as retail, voluntary youth work and temping roles and through the training and experience they've received in post, have progressed into a variety of careers such as teaching, residentialsupport, mental health support and more.

Our 2-year ESW development plan includes on the job training to equip you with:

Knowledge of:

Education frame works including curriculum and assessment,
Social Care processes incl: Personal Education Plans (PEP) and LAC review
Look After Child (LAC) rights and entitlements
Trauma informed practices
Support systems for vulnerable learners
Mental health needs and support processes
Housing law
Student finance

Experience of:

Working in a large Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) College,
Supporting students from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds and languages
Working collaboratively with a variety of professionals from Social Care, Teaching, Support Teams, Residential Support, Virtual Schools, Mental Health, Learning Support, Student Finance, Guidance Advisors, International Advisers, Interpreters and many more.
A wide variety of multiagency support processes

Mentoring

Structured individualised mentoring with your Line Manager to support your individual development in the role and beyond.

Shadowing

Opportunities to shadow the wide variety of professionals to see first-hand the role of each agency and professional in supporting our vulnerable learners.

Qualification

In year two of this role, you will have the chance to study a qualification relevant to your developmental pathway.

For an informal discussion around the role or for any questions you have please contact Alex Wallace.

Closing date:
Thursday 16 March 2023

As a College we are required to undertake various Safer Recruitment checks as set out within the guidance from the Department for Education Keeping Child Safe in Education.

We require all staff to undertake an enhanced Adult and Child Workforce DBS Checkand to register with the DBS Update Service.

Please note:

From 28 November 2020 the government implemented changes to the filtering rules, and we have been instructed that we cannot accept any update service checks on DBS certificates that have been issuedbefore this date.

Therefore, a new one must be completed with City College Norwich.