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Interim Co-Head of Service (Inclusion)

Salary £75,349 - £82,489 per annum
Location Barking, London
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This is a Temporary, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

We are seeking an experienced & qualified senior Social Worker or Teacher for a maternity cover. You will have a background leading a specialist provision for vulnerable neurodiverse young people, driving an inclusive learning environment and re-engaging pupils in education through a community-based therapeutic service.

The young people in our therapeutic education service have a history of being let down by education settings, with their needs and behaviours misunderstood. Many pupils have experienced tier 3 or 4 traumas, are at high risk of aggressive or sexualised behaviour, complex offending, gang affiliation, attachment disorders, complex physical, psychological and healthcare needs.

Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, you will be the driving force for the Create in the Community service to create and maintain an inclusive learning environment, working alongside the other Co-Head (Teaching & Learning) to ensure a holistic approach to the academic, social and pastoral education of our young people.

You will support our therapeutic practitioners to integrate and engage new young people into our service, drive appropriate baseline assessments, manage a pastoral and inclusive learning community, and bring together staff, parents and pupils from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences with shared goals.

Due to the nature of the company's work and our pupil cohorts, the individual will play a key role in overseeing and ensuring positive changes for vulnerable and complex young people, providing the opportunity and resources to thrive, supporting strategically in the community to improve and maintain pupils' attendance and engagement with learning. Your background will allow you to cascade expert knowledge to staff, guiding them in supporting pupils  in the best way possible, navigating complex behaviour, as well as drive up attendance, pupil progress and outcomes.

TCES staff deliver unique learning opportunities and therapeutic education to neurodiverse pupils who have a range of complex needs, and who demonstrate behaviours linked to  trauma. Pupils are encouraged to find and express their creativity and provided opportunities to achieve awards, alongside traditional subjects, as they move from dependence on others to independence through  therapeutic interventions..

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:  

  • A champion of inclusion with similar values to ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!
  • Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding professionalism.
  • Be a Qualified Social Worker (with current SWE registration) ideally with senior service management experience within paediatric social work, MASH Teams, therapeutic or mental health sectors; OR be a Qualified Teacher (with experience of leading an SEND, Therapeutic or Outreach provision).
  • Experience of driving high quality inclusion strategies and initiatives to support best practice with vulnerable and complex groups.
  • Proven skills in data analysis to inform strategic planning and solution focussed work.
  • Experience supporting and developing staff to provide appropriate support and interventions for neurodiverse young people, especially in developing social, personal and independent and leadership skills.
  • Proactive and innovative, mentoring team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently.
  • Experience of coaching staff to improve their practice.

The Company

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education.  

TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, at our Create Learning Primary, through our Create in the Community service or within our National Online School; our Create services support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with highly differentiated and personalised holistic therapeutic education programmes developed for each pupil focusing on development milestones. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main school, our Sixth Form, or into mainstream provisions. 

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