Job summary
Employer heading
Outreach Teacher
Main Pay Range (Inner London): £36,745 to £47,666, plus SEN allowance
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join an integrated teaching and CAMHS service working with children, families with complex needs alongside the wider network.
To work with individuals/groups of children to support them to progress in academic learning and social and emotional development.
To deliver relevant training, workshops and interventions designed to help children who have barriers to learning.
To plan and deliver targeted intervention programs designed to help children with SEMH.
To lead on assessment, planning and review for children referred to the service.
Main duties of the job
To work with individuals/groups of children to support them to progress in academic learning and social and emotional development.
Tasks specific to outreach:
- Observing children and young people in their setting to understand their needs both academically and emotionally.
- Liaise with previous or current settings, the professional network and the child and family to establish attainment / achievement levels and SEMH needs.
- Take a lead on academic and SEMH termly and weekly planning for 1:1 outreach cases using the Gloucester House outreach planning system.
- Write goals on Integrated Care Plans with agreed academic and therapeutic interventions.
- Attend EHCP meetings where relevant to discuss any barriers to learning and targeted interventions that could be put in place.
- Attend fortnightly Outreach meetings to liaise with other members of the Outreach team and feedback on Outreach cases.
- Write up minutes from meetings where relevant.
- Keeping case notes and summaries of interventions.
- Devise and implement targeted interventions and strategies with young people in school or at home.
- Implement teaching and learning support for young people within their existing school provision or their home.
- Follow the Gloucester House system for cognitive behaviour management when working with 1:1 Outreach cases.
Working for our organisation
Gloucester House Outreach Service is a unique service, offering skills and experience in both mental health and education. Although it has links, and some shared staff and working arrangements with Gloucester House, it is a standalone service that can be purchased by local authorities or schools. The service works with children, families and the professional network around the child – for example schools, CAMHS and children’s services.
The multi-disciplinary service offers bespoke multi-disciplinary education and clinical interventions for children, schools, families and networks to support pupils with complex SEMH needs to remain in school. It also provides specialist integrated education and therapeutic packages within the community where a child is unable to be educated and supported within a school setting.
The service also offers specialist consultation and trainings to schools or other partner agencies in the context of supporting children with SEMH needs through the Gloucester House model.
The Service offers support to professional and informal networks and the collaborative coordination of complex networks to achieve coherent and effective care plans. This might include bringing complex networks together, reflective practice staff groups, training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification for the full role and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Teacher Status.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children with special educational needs; in particular children with social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
- Recent successful teaching experience at primary level.
- Evidence of effective oral and written communication skills.
- Evidence of the ability to ensure good behaviour among children in the classroom and to help to create a positive ethos.
- Experience of working in an Outreach / Behaviour Support Team
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- An understanding of good teaching practice in primary years and the conditions required to raise levels of achievement.
- An ability to create a positive classroom and/or 1:1 environment that supports academic and social, emotional and mental health progress.
- An ability to work effectively with parents\carers
- An ability to work sensitively, flexibly and collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and liaise effectively with a clear understanding about the contribution of the teacher’s role in the process.
- An ability to manage a complex workload, which includes monitoring and planning for the children’s range of needs.
- An ability to understand and promote equal opportunity policies in all aspects of work.
- An ability to manage the personal, psychological impact of working with this specific population of disturbed children
- Enhanced DBS clearance
- Knowledge of legislation in the area of special educational needs.
- An ability to work with the whole range of staff in different school settings
OTHER
Essential criteria
- The post-holder will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Powley
- Job title
- Lead teacher Gloucester House outreach service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07596952929
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