Educational Support Officer

We require an Educational Support Officer to play an active part in ensuring that the College's outcomes for students, including high need SEN and behaviour students, are achieved. In order to support and facilitate the wellbeing and progress for identified students, this role will include working directly with pupils in the classroom or on a one-to-one or small-group basis.

You will be an active and resourceful part of an Educational Support team that delivers responsive and effective support to students, with the ability to build and sustain positive relationships with students and parents/carers and to overcome barriers to learning both inside and outside school. You should have good literacy, numeracy and interpersonal skills, evidence of effective working with young people and high expectations for pupils' achievements.

This is a full-time, term time only position, with INSET training days and an additional seven days to be worked throughout the year. These seven days will be used for working during the summer holidays for Summer School, Stepping Stones Day and after school for Subject Review, learning events, evening meetings and additional administration time.

The hours are 37 per week, Monday to Friday, to be worked between 8.15am and 4.30pm, on a rota basis, with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break each day. The salary is proportionately reduced in the number of weeks worked during the year. The position is paid for 45.852 weeks per year. The role is paid on a grade F1 (£22,398) with a starting salary of £19.695.70 The closing date for application forms is 4th November. Interview dates week commencing the 11th November.

What the school offers its staff

The health and wellbeing of our entire school community, including staff, is of utmost importance to us. We have a dedicated Mental Health Lead and a number of employees at the school who are mental health trained to support staff and students alike.

Our Staff Wellbeing Team strive to organise a number of activities in and outside of school, including craft workshops, sports activities, and more. We also have a Workload Wellbeing Team that work to ensure the school is always considerate of staff members' work-life balance.

We actively encourage staff to take part in the many continuing professional development (CPD) workshops and classes we operate at Penryn College, helping to strengthen and/or develop new skills.

Additionally, we are firm believers in working in partnerships. We have strong links with the University, a long established partnership with a large group of primaries and we are part of the 'Creativity Collaboratives Programme', funded by the Arts Council England, testing and evaluating a range of innovative practices in teaching and learning. This has developed our strong, existing relationships with local primary schools and universities, providing many benefits for our staff.

Commitment to safeguarding