Exam Access Co-ordinator

**Salary**:
Salary: Band F (NJC Point 16-19) Actual Salary: £18,715 - £19,661

**Job type**:
Part Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
As soon as your notice period allows

7 January 2025

**Job overview**:
**Salary**:Band F (NJC Point 16-19) **Actual Salary**:£18,715 - £19,661

**Hours**:27 hours 30 minutes per week, Monday to Friday

**Contract**:Permanent, Term time only plus 2 days

**Closing Date**:Tuesday 7th January 2025 at 12.00 noon or earlier (see below)

**Start Date**:As soon as your notice period allows

Are you an enthusiastic, friendly and dedicated when it comes to providing excellent care and educational support to students with additional needs? Do you recognize yourself as having strong communication skills, patience and understanding? Are you a strong organizer with a keen attention to detail, who is passionate about making exams accessible to all in a safe, vibrant, and happy school? If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

An exciting opportunity has become available for an Exam Access Co-ordinator / Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA), you will work within a supportive school environment that truly values the roles within the Learning Support team.

**What we’re looking for**

Someone who:

- has a passion for children’s learning and is committed to the safeguarding of all our children
- has an outstanding track record in ensuring children succeed and reach their potential
- is highly organised
- is creative in their approach and be able to embrace change
- has very high expectations of pupil achievement and behaviour
- has excellent interpersonal skills and a ‘can do’ mentality

**What will you get in return?**

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as part of a passionate and friendly team under the direction and with the support of the SENDCO and Assistant Headteacher. At The Brooksbank School you’ll find a strong foundation where you can make a real difference to the lives of our children.

In addition to this you will benefit from:

- Automatic enrolment in the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
- Free Parking and an onsite Gym
- Staff benefits package via vivup including employee assistance program, home and electronics discounts eyecare vouchers and cycle to work
- Extra days’ holiday linked to service

**What the role involves in a nutshell**:

- Act as Exams Access Arrangements Co-Ordinator; carrying out assessments, analysing results and requesting arrangements
- Monitoring and communicating progress of identified students to the teacher and SENDCO.
- Preparing adapted materials and teaching aids for students with literacy and numeracy difficulties and identify appropriate interventions.
- Running and planning intervention strategies for SEN students supported within the SEN Department
- Line management responsibility for Level 1 and 2 Learning Support Assistants

If our school sounds like a place in which you could really make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.

**HOW TO APPLY**

the deadline.

**SAFER RECRUITMENT**

**About **The Brooksbank School**:
**The Brooksbank School**
- Victoria Road, Elland- West Yorkshire- HX5 0QG- United Kingdom+44 1422 374791

**CHARACTER BUILDING SINCE 1712**:
The Brooksbank School has a long and proud history serving the community of Elland. 1700 students make it the second largest comprehensive high school in Calderdale and one of very few to have maintained its own sixth form centre.

Brooksbank is a school that is absolutely committed to exceptional academic achievement: ranking highly amongst the top of non-selective schools in Calderdale. We are also a school which understands that true accomplishment lies beyond this success, and that dedication to the arts, sport, media and community will shape our students to become our future leaders.

2022 began a new chapter in The Brooksbank School’s journey as we joined Together Learning Trust. This is an exciting time to join a committed and supportive staff team, dedicated to school improvement and providing an excellent education for every student, every day. Just like our students, you’ll find opportunities here to shine and represent the **#spiritofbbs**.

**Location**:
Brooksbank is set in a stunning Calderdale location with beautiful green fields and open countryside, and just two minutes from Junction 24 of the M62 motorway to Leeds and Manchester. It also boasts easy access to urban culture and excitement in Halifax and Sowerby Bridge and is a ten-mile drive away from hotspot Hebden Bridge. It’s a great place to live and provides many opportunities for students.

**Did you know**:

- Sporting success is in Brooksbank’s DNA. It teaches us the value of teamwork, determination and perseverance. We have fantastic facilities, including a FIFA-grade all-weather 3G sports field and a picturesque cycle track set in its own grounds.
- Brooksbank celebrated one hundred years of teaching and learning in 2011. However, our school was founded 300 year