Student Support Worker - Lingfield, Surrey

£12.70 to £13.26 per hour (DOE and Quals)

Term-Time only (39 weeks per year)

Full-time only available

Would you like to represent St Piers, an incredible place for children and young adults with special educational needs and disabilities to thrive?

About The Job

As a Student Support Worker, you will support students across their educational setting. You must be passionate about making a genuine difference to the young people we support and putting them at the heart of everything we do. Day-to-day, your role will include…

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team that shares a common goal; to achieve the best for our students.
• Enabling students to access learning, using needs-specific, personalized approaches, with 1:1 and group learning activities.
• Encouraging independence among the young people you support.
• Contributing to individual student records and reports, in consultation with the class Teacher and specialist staff.
• Supporting students at home (onsite), attending and contributing to classroom, curriculum, staff, and other vital meetings.
• Completing administration work.
• Promoting a high standard of hygiene and welfare for students at home and in class.

About You

Experience is not essential; we look for people who share the same great qualities as our existing Student Support Workers. Some of those things include:

• Are you passionate about supporting students?
• Will you strive for the best possible outcomes for the people you support?
• Are you creative with new ideas to stimulate students?
• Can you be adaptable to changing priorities and working flexibly?
• Can you demonstrate good initiative when dealing with challenging situations?
• Are you an engaging communicator, both verbally and in writing?
• Are you always looking for development opportunities to enhance your ability?

Does this sound like you? If so, we would love to discuss your next career move.

More about St Piers

St Piers sits in the Education Directorate of Young Epilepsy, the leading national charity working exclusively to improve the lives of children and young people with epilepsy or associated conditions. We are a non-maintained residential special school for 4-25-year-olds, and we are an innovative and creative School and College for students with SEND, and a large percentage of our cohort have Epilepsy, autism, and severe learning difficulties, along with communication difficulties.

St Piers provides a variety of interactive and inclusive environments, both indoors and outdoors, that support the pursuit of ambitions and aspirations through a range of exciting and creative spaces. Our students are at the heart of the learning experience by providing an environment where everyone can progress and gain new skills.

St Piers is a Centre of Excellence [IQM] for Inclusion and is a member of Challenge Partners [Quality Assurance Review (2019) judged 'outstanding'].

St Piers School is rated 'Good' [Ofsted 2023].

St Piers College is rated 'Outstanding' [Ofsted 2024].

To find out more about St. Piers and to take a virtual tour of our campus, click here.

St Piers is part of Young Epilepsy.