Vocational Lead Instructor

**Full Job Description**:
**_Work less hours to do the stuff you love doing_**

**Location: Belmont Secondary School, Rawtenstall**

**Salary: up to £32,000 per annum**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week**

**Contract: Permanent; term time only**

Are you a Vocational Lead Instructor committed to improving the lives of children and young people?

As the Vocational Lead Instructor, you will be responsible for the provision of a full learning experience and support for students. Line managing named members of the staff as appropriate. Ensuring that the Vocational offer at Belmont School is well balanced and suits the needs of our pupils.

Qualifications Required: GCSE's grade C/4 and above in English, Maths and Science. Vocational qualifications.

Job purpose
- To assist the Head of School in developing the school as a high-quality specialist provision for pupils with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH);
- To uphold the ethos, aims and values of the school, its policies and codes of practice at all times
- To help manage the structure and organisation of the school day
- To contribute to raising standards of student attainment. To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their full potential
- Develop and enhance the teaching practice of others, especially those within the Vocational Education Department

**About the School**

Belmont Secondary is an independent, specialist day school for boys 11 to 18, catering for children with a wide range of needs. Our dedicated team, work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life.

We pride ourselves in steering children in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them both academically and socially to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build confidence in our students, so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.

Acorn Care and Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education, foster care and residential care for vulnerable children and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**Why join Acorn Education & Care?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.