Progress Support Worker | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £33,094 - £36,195 PA Inclusive of HCAS - Term Time |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 September 2025 |
| Location: | London, NW3 5BU |
| Company: | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7343674/260-TP-975 |
Summary
To work alongside other staff members to support the educational, emotional, social and welfare needs of the children in Gloucester House.
To support the children’s academic progress alongside their social and emotional progress.
To be an active part of supporting the children’s identity as learners and in ensuring they progress from baseline levels.
To guide the experience of learning and education as a therapeutic tool.
To take an active role working through barriers to learning. To assist in the development and maintenance of an integrated educational and therapeutic milieu, and to promote a safe and secure environment.
To work with individuals/groups of children to support them to progress in academic learning and social and emotional development.
This may be through:
• Supporting classroom management in collaboration with the teacher and other members of the class team.
• Recognising barriers to learning and implement ‘My Strategies’ and to address this under the guidance of the class teacher and with other professionals.
• Implementing programmes and delivering specific pieces of work with letters and sounds / specific educational support programmes, under the guidance of the teacher or set by other professionals e.g. SALT/OT/EP.
• Being aware of the children’s academic levels and specific learning needs through knowing Integrated Care Plan (ICP) targets and Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) objectives.
• To be fully informed of and to implement Integrated Care Plans in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team.
• To develop children’s ability to develop as ‘learners’ a good understanding of the children’s learning abilities, and to support the working through of any difficulties relating to educational development and supporting access to the curriculum.
• To take a lead role in planning and delivering specific programmes and lessons as appropriate: these may be subject-based, or may relate more generally to the social and personal development of children in Gloucester House.
Gloucester House forms part of the Specialist Schools Service of the Tavistock Clinic and is managed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. It is a specialist school and CAMHS team which provides education and clinical services for up to 21 pupils aged 5-14 years who have social, emotional and mental health difficulties, often alongside other learning difficulties such as specific language or literacy difficulties and sometimes more general learning difficulties. Baseline records show that all pupils are underachieving when they start at the Gloucester House. Many of the pupils who attend are from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, some of whom have experienced severe deprivation or trauma/abuse in their early lives. The pupils come from both inner and outer London boroughs.
Gloucester House aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment and an effectively integrated educational and therapeutic approach in order to promote the overall development of primary age and early secondary pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full responsibilities and details.
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Sep 2025