Outreach Coordinator

Outreach Coordinator – Aurora Wilden View  

Location: Torton, Kidderminster  

Contract Type: Permanent, Term time only  

Hours: 40 hours per week  

Hourly Rate: £14.77 - £16.13 per hour   

Annual Salary: £26,391.04 - £28,821.08 actual salary  

The Aurora Group  

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.  

About Aurora Wilden View  

Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!  

Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.   

The role: 

As our Outreach Curriculum Coordinator, you will work with students who are on transition or outreach timetables to support them to access school and make academic, social and emotional progress until they can attend school full time.   

You will be aspirational for the students that you work with and provide support to ensure that they achieve the qualification that they are working on up to and including functional skills level 2. 

You will also perform the role of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead at the school by supporting the Designated Safeguarding Lead to keep pupils safe with particular responsibility for outreach students. 

Key duties:

• Ensure that pupils are properly safeguarded and understand how to make a referral to the schools Designated Safeguarding Lead. 
• Deliver high quality teaching and learning to children and young people with additional needs like ASD, SEMH and anxiety.  
• Be responsible for the high quality of teaching and learning of all pupils who are assigned to the post holder, having responsibility for their progress, welfare and outcomes.  
• Supervise the work of any support staff who are assigned to work with the post holder’s pupils.  
• Take responsibility for implementing school policies and practice, including those relating to safeguarding and equality of opportunity.  
• Provide leadership of outreach provision across the school. 

Experience & Qualifications:  

Essential: 

• Experience of working in a special school environment and in particular with pupils with SEMH/ASD.  
• Understanding of curriculum and experience of delivering lessons that are matched to the needs of individual students.  
• Experience of managing safeguarding concerns. 

 Desirable: 

• Experience as a TA or HLTA in a specialist SEMH setting 
• Experience of successfully delivering a differentiated curriculum to pupils with a wide range of needs.   
• Safeguarding Knowledge 

Please note: The role will require you to travel for work and training purposes and there is an element of lone working. A full UK Driving Licence and the use of your own car is essential (milage paid) 

What’s on offer? 

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes: 

• Full training and continued support  
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us! 
• Free lunch during your working day 
• Perkbox subscription 
• Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme 
• Car lease scheme  
• Bike to work scheme   
• Free parking    
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more. 

Apply/Enquiries  

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact  adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. 

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. 

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. 

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.  

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.