1:1 Alternative Provision Instructor

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**Job Title:

- 1:1 Alternative Provision Instructor**

**Location:

- Belmont Secondary School, Rawtenstall**

**Salary:

- £19,000 per annum**

**Hours:

- 37.5 hours per week**

**Contract:

- Permanent; term time only**

Are you a 1:1 Alternative Provision Instructor committed to improving the lives of children and young people?

We are looking for a 1:1 Alternative Provision Instructor to join our fantastic team at Belmont Secondary School, Rawtenstall. As a 1:1 Alternative Provision Instructor, you will support the designated pupil in educational activities with outside agenciesand Coordinating and implementing other activities and lessons as applicable to raise attainment for the pupil with Specific barriers to learning, raising attainment to ensure the pupil makes the required progress.

**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 viewof 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 con?dence in our students, so they are able tohave 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 newapproaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**Responsibilities**:

- In partnership with the Alternative Provision Lead ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum that is appropriate for the pupil you are supporting that meets his needs and interests.
- Work with the pupil you support on a 1:1basis to improve their numeracy and literacy skills, and complete the relevant assessments to show the relevant progress being made.
- Help deliver the entry level, functional skills, AQA unit awards scheme and GCSE courses offered at the school and assist with ensuring all applicable paperwork is completed, liaise with exams officer to ensure the pupil you support is entered for examinationsunder direction of the teaching staff or SMT/SLT.
- Assist with departmental data assessment entry and progression tracking and use this data to identify pupil needs and where targeted support is most needed.
- Liaise with relevant staff and/or SMT/SLT to help facilitate learning through assisting with procurement of resources, planning and implementation of lessons and assist with work scrutiny and marking for the pupil you are supporting.
- In the absence of the student you will be required to attend the school and support in the relevant areas required. This role will be predominantly as a Support Worker but could include other roles such as admin or pastoral support.
- To work closely with the Alternative Provision Lead and Assistant Head Teacher to ensure all the relevant checks and risk assessments are completed for all Educational Visits involving the pupil you support.
- To play a proactive part in ensuring that all activities in place are relevant and suited to the pupils needs.

Qualifications required: GCSE's ideally grade C / 4 and above in English, Maths and Science.

**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 livesof others.