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Role: Outdoor Education Instructor
Start Date: January 2025
Duration: Permanent
Location: Redruth
The School is a brand new, Independent, SEMH special school which opened in September 2024, in Redruth Cornwall. We are looking for excellent practitioners, with experience within upper KS2 to KS4, desirably with Core subject specialism (KS3-4) who want to focus their skills in a fully inclusive, therapeutic environment, tailored to meet individual need.
It is an exciting time for the school, at the start of our school journey, therefore we are looking for dynamic, adaptable practitioners who want to make a difference to the lives and outcomes of pupils with SEMH needs.
Pupils attending the school have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) outlining their Special Educational Needs - EHCP’s of commissioned places includes needs such as high anxiety, social and emotional mental health needs and autism. Many of these pupils will have found life in a mainstream school very challenging and will have experience of anxiety-based school refusal and/or of short-term placements in a range of alternative provisions.
The Role
- Be part of a team delivering Outdoor Education and learning outside the classroom opportunities to groups of students.
- Lead on the development of the Outdoor Education Curriculum.
- Providing support for pupils, teachers and the whole school as outlined below
- Facilitating and instructing across a wide variety of age groups from KS2 to post 16 aged pupils who have a range of complex needs.
- Leading assigned groups
- Using Specialist knowledge to support pupils
- Working with individuals and groups to support learning activities and develop behaviour for learning
- Working with pupils on individual targets set
- Motivating pupils to engage in Outdoor Learning activities including
- Forest School, Hill Walking, Water sports (Kayak, Canoe, SUP, Wild Swimming), Camping Expeditions
If you are interested please upload a CV ASAP
