Lead Practitioner

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

- To lead the school’s new Progress Centre.
- To create personalised learning plans providing enhanced support within the new Progress Centre for identified SEND students, to improve attendance, progress, and academic success.
- To coordinate provision and additional staff support within the Progress Centre to ensure the delivery of effective teaching to enable success for all SEND students at Key Stage 4.
- To establish professional, but caring and supportive relationships with students.
- To monitor and support the overall progress, development, and emotional well-being of students.
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to monitor personal and academic growth, and for them to achieve their individual potential alongside life skills and a preparation for adulthood in the local community.
- To contribute to raising standards of SEND student attendance and attainment.
- To participate in SEND planning meetings/ Team Around the Child meetings (as required) and lead on Progress Centre planning and review meetings.
- To support students in their return to full-time mainstream lessons (wherever possible).
- To lead a vertical tutor group within the Progress Centre to enable students to transition positively and successfully into school every day.

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**Want to know more about Gospel Oak School?**

Gospel Oak School, formerly the RSA Academy serves the borough of Sandwell, but due to its geographical position students join us from Wolverhampton and Walsall. In 2017 the school joined the Central RSA Academies Trust and has been working closely and collaboratively across the trust to offer greater opportunities for all. Over the last 5 years the trust has grown in size and strength, from September 2021 the trust is now an academy approved sponsor in its own right and the RSA will no longer sponsor the trust, although we will continue to work closely with the RSA. This changing relationship has provided the trust and the school to rebrand ourselves, the trust will now be known as Central Region Schools Trust and the school; Gospel Oak School.

The rebrand for the school has allowed us to reflect on the true heritage of the local community. The school is based in Gospel Oak and as a community we are very proud of our Black Country heritage, it is for this reason our new branding reflects the colours of the Black Country along with symbolic representation of the area, with the narrowboat which reflects the locality of the Gospel Oak canal basin, the oak tree for when the parish was so large the parishioners prayed under it once a month and the Black Country links to industry within the area.