Nurture Learning Partner

Protocol Education Limited; West of England; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Protocol Education is seeking a nurturing Learning Partner to support primary-aged children with SEN and SEMH needs in a specialist resource base in North Bristol.

You will help pupils build trusting relationships, regulate emotions, and develop confidence while maintaining warmth, empathy and clear boundaries within routines.

Qualifications

• Experience in education is welcomed, but candidates from nurture, pastoral, family support, mentoring, childcare and youth work backgrounds are encouraged.
• All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role.

Responsibilities

• Build trusting relationships with pupils and adults.
• Recognise and regulate pupils' emotions.
• Develop confidence and self-esteem in learners.
• Help pupils navigate friendships and social situations.
• Support transitions and changes to routine and gradually increase engagement with learning.

Job description

For some children, feeling safe, understood and trusted is the first step towards being ready to learn.

We're looking for a nurturing and emotionally aware Learning Partner to support primary-aged children within a specialist resource base in North Bristol.

You'll work with pupils with SEN and SEMH needs, some of whom may find relationships, routines and the demands of the school day difficult to navigate.

Your role will be about more than academic support. You'll help pupils:

• Build trusting relationships with adults
• Recognise and regulate their emotions
• Develop confidence and self-esteem
• Navigate friendships and social situations
• Manage transitions and changes to routine
• Gradually increase their engagement with learning

We're looking for someone who can combine warmth and empathy with clear, consistent boundaries.

Experience in education is welcomed, but candidates from nurture, pastoral, family support, mentoring, childcare and youth work backgrounds are also encouraged to apply.

If you're passionate about understanding the child behind the behaviour, this could be an incredibly rewarding next step.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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