Work Related Learning Co-ordinator

**Phoenix Primary and Secondary School**
Tower Hamlets

**Salary**:

NJC Scale 5 Point 12-15 £31,716 - £33,204 Actual Salary Starting from £27,524 to £28,816

**Job type**:

Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:

Jan 2025 Start
30 September 2024

**Job overview**:
**Salary: NJC Scale 5 Point 12-15 £31,716 - £33,204 Actual Salary Starting from £27,524 to £28,816**

**Working Arrangements: Permanent | Term-Time Only | 35 Hours Per Week (8:45am - 3.30pm Including one evening until 5pm & one evening until 4pm)**

We are looking to appoint an experienced Work-Related Learning Coordinator who will work within KS4 and KS5. You will have a key role in the implementation of work placements to develop students coping strategies and resilience to support them to self-confidently work in new environments and with new people.

We are looking for a proficient, pupil centred and self-motivated individual who is equipped with the knowledge and understating of how to facilitate Work Related Learning opportunities for students who are on the Autistic Spectrum in KS5, coaching and mentoring them to fulfil their potential.

Split over three main sites with additional Satellite provisions, Phoenix supports young people aged between 3 and 19. We are an award-winning and “Outstanding” school (Ofsted, Nov 2018) accredited through the National Autistic Society and praised for our creative approaches. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our young people.

**The Role**
- Facilitate Work Related Learning in KS5, coaching and mentoring them to fulfil their potential.
- Develop students coping strategies and resilience to support them to work confidently in new settings
- Monitor the Health and safety of students on Work placements/during activities and develop student’s autonomy around this.
- Make reasonable adjustments and scaffold students to carry out work tasks with greater independence and increase their confidence in the work place.
- Capture student progress feeding back to the class Teacher/parents and gather and collate relevant evidence towards accreditation units.
- Establish good working relationships with other providers and agencies.
- Support the School mission, vision, values and strategic objectives.

**How to apply**:

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**Closing Date: 9am, 30th September 2024**

**Shortlisting Date: 1st & 2nd October 2024**

**Interviews & Assessment week commencing: 14th October 2024**

It will not be possible to re-arrange these dates.

If you are intending to apply, please ensure you are available to attend for an interview.

If you would like to discuss the post or visit please contact

**Jude Donoghue**

**Attached documents**:

- WRL Coordinator Advert Sept 2024.pdf
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JD - WRL Coordinator Sept 24.pdf
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Phoenix Job Application Form - Work Related Learning Co-ordinator.doc
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Inspection report
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**About **Phoenix Primary and Secondary School**:
**Phoenix Primary and Secondary School**
- 49 Bow Road, Tower Hamlets
London
E3 2AD
United Kingdom
+44 20 89804740
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Phoenix School is a well-established special school, which offers a unique service to the children of Tower Hamlets. It is a caring, well-ordered school, which encourages mutual respect between staff and students. We admit children and young people with severe language and communication difficulties whose needs lie within the autistic spectrum. The school has a multi ethnic population, which reflects the diversity of the borough.

We offer a rich and stimulating curriculum, which is individually tailored reflecting good practice in an environment that supports the students’ learning. The school offers a range of sensory and therapeutic interventions and a multidisciplinary approach to student needs. The school has developed a holistic approach working in partnership other agencies, parents and families to have their needs met from one centre. There is a strong focus on maintaining good relationships between home and school. We encourage respect for others, good manners and tolerance.

The school is known locally for its positive links with the wider community. It celebrates the faiths of the multi-ethnic community of the school and its surroundings

There is a commitment to sharing our learning with other communities and in turn learning through the partnership. We have alliances with schools in Bangladesh and in India following visits from colleagues to us and to them.

Phoenix School is a Rights Respecting School. We implement the UN convention of the rights of the child and ensure that students are taught about their rights. As adults, it is our responsibility to ensure that we are honouring children's rights at all times, and that we are modelling rights respecting behaviour and values in class and around the school. All classrooms have visual reinforcement regarding children's rights, and it is important that all staff are aware of this and reinforce thi