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Description
The safe recruitment of staff is the first step to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in education.
Rivers ESC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects anyone applying to work in our school to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory enhanced criminal record with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check), health check, employment reference checks and online/social media checks.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications irrespective of race, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation and/or age. We value the individuality and creativity that every worker potentially brings to the workforce.
Rivers Education Support Centre provides educational programmes to support pupils who are at serious risk of permanent exclusion, or who have been permanently excluded from their mainstream school. We are a unique organisation that works with children in the East Herts and Broxbourne areas, who are experiencing difficulties in their mainstream schools because of their social, emotional, and mental health difficulties. A highly skilled team of Outreach staff work in both primary and secondary schools throughout both areas with children who are at risk of permanent exclusion, with the aim of supporting them and their school to overcome the issues that are making school life difficult.
Our Aims
Rivers ESC aims to provide a safe, secure, and happy environment where everyone will work hard to achieve their potential. Furthermore, we aim to build pupils’ confidence by celebrating success and by nurturing a culture where it is ok to take chances and learn from our mistakes in order to build resilience and self-belief. We aim to inspire and enable our pupils to:
- Become confident, independent, and successful young people
- Excel in learning
- Engage positively with the community
- Be ambitious for their futures
The 4 R’s of Rivers ESC:
Respect
Having respect for ourselves, other people, and our environment.
Relationships
Developing positive relationships and behaviours with peers, staff, and family.
Resilience
A never give up attitude which equips pupils with the drive to succeed in even the most challenging of circumstances.
Readiness
To move on to the next stage of life, be it back into mainstream school or on to new opportunities after Year 11.
About the Rivers ESC and The Phoenix Centre
At the Key Stage 3 Centre in Hertford, pupils either attend for a short-term respite placement “The Reset Programme” or for a longer period while the next steps are arranged. Pupils are provided with a broad curriculum and any barriers to education are identified. Pupils are supported to find strategies to overcome any barriers to support them to be successful in school. Once a mainstream school has been identified, pupils are supported to reintegrate by our Secondary Outreach team. Where appropriate, statutory assessments are conducted for pupils at Key Stage 3 to identify additional support that may be required and, in some instances, to support the process towards placement in an alternative/ specialist provision.
The Key Stage 4 Centre in Hoddesdon provides education for year 10 and 11 pupils. Where possible, pupils are supported to reintegrate back into mainstream school once it has been identified that they are likely to be successful. KS4 pupils complete a wide range of exam-based and vocational qualifications to work towards future aspirations and chosen career pathways. Pupils also complete work experience. Some KS4 pupils may work on learning pathways which include attendance at alternative provisions supported by centre staff. Pupils have access to a broad range of subjects at a variety of levels and are guided to be highly aspirational with the courses they select. Pupil outcomes are outstanding.
Rivers ESC works with the Fair Access Team in Hertfordshire to choose a new school placement and to plan how to meet the additional needs of the pupil who is reintegrating.
Rivers ESC has a highly positive, solution-focused ethos, with a strong emphasis placed on pupils making progress in behaviour as being a key factor to outstanding academic progress. There are clear boundaries of acceptable behaviour across the organisation. Inappropriate, disruptive, and anti-social behaviour is discouraged by all staff in lessons and around both centres. Education takes place in a purposeful working environment.
The Phoenix Centre has its own primary support base on the grounds of the KS4 Centre in Hoddesdon. The Phoenix Centre support children at Tier 3 and 4 of the DSPL4 Behaviour Service. We offer intensified outreach and short-term provision for primary school-aged children who are at risk of permanent exclusion. Children who attend The Phoenix Centre will receive bespoke therapeutic packages of support. These packages are designed to help children develop the skills they would need to be successful in their mainstream school. We are also able to provide short-term educational support for children who have been permanently excluded.
Visits from potential applicants are welcomed, please contact PA to Headteacher Heather Dunne (heather.dunne@riversesc.herts.sch.uk) to arrange.