Child Support worker

Child Inclusion & Support - Immediate starts Full Time (Pay based on skills, experience and qualifications)

We are currently looking for support staff to work in a specialist setting based in Leeds. These schools & settings provide an education for students who can’t go to a mainstream school, because of exclusion, illness, or other reasons, and would not otherwise receive suitable education. The particular groups you will be working with will be KS3 and KS4 children that are in transition to these new environments.

You may have some experience and, more importantly, a passion for working with young people aged 8-19. The work can be very rewarding; however, it can also be challenging. Therefore, you need to be resilient, calm, composed, and have the ability to manage challenging behaviour in the school. Many students have challenging home lives and have complex communication needs, learning difficulties, or are autistic, and some occasionally present challenging behaviours.

Protocol Education has been placing teaching professionals in a range of settings for many years. We are a REC accredited and audited company, which means we take safeguarding seriously and are a leading fully compliant provider within the education sector. We have a large office network that stretches from the North East to the South West and most areas in between.

Protocol Education adheres to the following requirements from its Support Workers:

1. A DBS certificate with a live subscription to the update service or be willing to get one through us.
2. Min two professional references within the last three years.
3. Someone who is committed to the safeguarding of young people.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’; this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.

We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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