HLTA Link Tutor (Gloucestershire)

<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.</span><br><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p>
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<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Title:                           HLTA Link Tutor</span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Location:                     Hospital Educ Serv Outpatient Team Base </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Salary:                              £31,015 - £33,673 per annum (pro rata) </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Hours per Week:                36.00 TTO </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Contract Type:                   Permanent </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Closing Date:                    02/11/2026 </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Requisition Number:    15065 </span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">This post is not open to job share</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We are looking for a highly experienced Link Tutor to join our pastoral support team, working alongside our existing Link Tutors to support students in Key Stages 3 and 4.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">The Link Tutor role is varied and hugely rewarding. You will join a highly motivated, creative and experienced team committed to ensuring that children and young people are able to access education despite the health barriers they may be facing.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">The role has a strong pastoral focus. Link Tutors provide individualised support to help students engage with their education while they are with us and, wherever possible, successfully transition back to their mainstream school, an alternative provision or their post-16 destination.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Regular contact with students, including visits to their homes, is a fundamental part of the role. These visits enable Link Tutors to build strong relationships with students, identify barriers to learning, recognise key milestones, develop strategies and skills, and support aspects of our wellbeing curriculum. Student voice is central to this work and to the decisions made about the support each young person needs.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Link Tutors work closely with parents and carers, mainstream schools, GHES teaching staff and the wider network of professionals supporting each young person. This includes liaison with Social Care and medical professionals, as well as attendance at meetings such as TAF, Child in Need (CIN), Child Protection (CP), PEP and Graduated Pathway meetings.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">As GHES is a short-term service, transition and reintegration are key features of the role. Link Tutors have an important part to play in facilitating carefully planned and supported transitions, working collaboratively with the student, family, school and other professionals to achieve the best possible outcome.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We are looking for candidates who have experience of working with children and young people with additional needs and who understand the importance of effective multi-agency working.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">The successful candidates will:</span></p>
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<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">understand the Graduated Pathway and the importance of a student-centred approach;</span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">have experience of, or a good working knowledge of, the professional agencies that support school-age children and young people;</span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">place a high value on safeguarding and understand their responsibility for keeping children and young people safe;</span></li>
<li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt&quot