Working for Running Deer School and Running Deer CIC gives you a fantastic opportunity to grow and develop.
We provide excellent training to enable you to reach your full potential and opportunities for continuing personal development at every stage in your career. On top of this, you will be working in the heart of Dartmoor National Park at our head office at Butterdon Wood, the home of Running Deer CIC.
You will be working with other outstanding people throughout our network, helping to shape the futures of the children at Running Deer School and those attending our Intervention programme.
Please email
info@runningdeer.org.uk for an application pack.
As the Centre Manager you will be responsible for:
You will also be required to:
We are looking for someone who is/has:
Successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, which will include a check against the Children’s Barred List. References will always be taken up.
You will need to be able to work with children and young people who may display aggressive or non-compliant behaviour in a sensitive but firm way, while at all times ensuring that they are kept safe and well.
Running Deer School is in a rural location on the edge of Dartmoor, approximately 2 miles from Moretonhampstead.
For an application pack please email info@runningdeer.org.uk
If you would like to chat to someone regarding this position, please call 01647 400201 and ask to speak to Nick (Director of Education).
Deadline is Friday 20th December 2024. Interviews will take place early January 2025.
Term Time Only, 35 hours per week.
£20,885 pa (FTE: £26,207)
Running Deer is a not for profit organisation based in Dartmoor National Park, which supports adults and children with learning and mental health difficulties, disabilities, and those not in education, employment or training. We provide access to education, training, volunteering, life skills opportunities, and work experience through a variety of outdoors-oriented projects. These projects include the provision of a registered independent school and intervention programme.
Running Deer School provides small, specialist, high-support education provision for local education authorities. Firmly grounded in outdoor education and rural skills, and with a strong focus on core academic achievement, we work with children and young people between 8 and 16 with a range of special educational needs.
Running Deer School is a Trauma Informed School.
This is a term time only position.
Case Workers make up the core team of Running Deer School and our Intervention Programme. Working alongside other Case Workers and our teachers you will work 1:1 with our users delivering therapeutic activities and supporting them with their learning.
The majority of your time will be outdoors in our woodland and surrounding areas working on projects and activities that will stimulate our users, enabling them to grow both emotionally and academically.
• deliver project-based learning as part of our students’ individualised educational learning plan
• deliver therapeutic activities and learning based around traditional, rural, and bushcraft skills,
• deliver therapeutic activities involving animals,
• help to develop our user’s individualised learning plans,
• deliver learning activities which fit in with the national curriculum and other award bodies such as ASDAN,
• report daily on our user’s individualised learning plans,
• guide the personal development of our students,
• understand their role in safeguarding our students and staff and work with one another, our safeguarding officers, and external agencies to safeguard children and young people,
• act as a key worker for one or more of our users, and collate information from other Case Workers
• work cooperatively with other staff and senior leaders.
You will:
Successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, which will include a check against the Children’s Barred List. References will be taken up
The majority of the work associated with this role will be outdoors, and you will work in inclement weather. This role can be physically demanding, and includes walking and hiking on inclined and slippery ground, heavy lifting and carrying, and the use of hand tools.
Case Workers will need to be able to work with children and young people who may display aggressive or non-compliant behaviour in a sensitive but firm way, while at all times ensuring that they are kept safe and well.
Successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, which will include a check against the Children’s Barred List. References are always taken up.
To apply for this job please email info@runningdeer.org.uk for an application pack or download our pack using the link below.
Case Worker Application Pack (zip file)
Do not send a CV or covering letter. Applications which include a CV or covering letter will be discarded.
You will be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK.
Applicants who qualify will be invited for an informal meeting with our Senior Management team at our Butterdon Wood site, near Moretonhampstead. Working for Running Deer doesn’t suit everyone, so this is an opportunity to meet the team, discuss your previous experience and any qualifications, have a look around, get a feel for the work that we do, and ask any questions you might have.
This interview will consist of a question and answer session, which will be scored against a predetermined set of questions. The highest-scoring applicants will then be selected.
Subject to a current DBS check including Children’s Barred List, and references, we will then make a formal offer of employment.
Once the offer of employment has been accepted, you will be invited to attend an induction day, and complete our basic training sessions including e-learning which will cover our policies, procedures, the safeguarding of children and young people, risk assessments, and a health and safety briefing.
Running Deer School is a DfE registered independent school (registration number: 878/6067) for young people with Special Educational Needs.
Running Deer School is part of the Running Deer C.I.C Group.
Running Deer C.I.C provide activities and opportunities based around traditional rural skills and land based studies, bushcraft, equine assisted education, dog therapy, green woodworking and conservation.
Running Deer CIC is a not for profit organisation and company limited by guarantee. Company No: 7605814.
VAT Reg No: 289345260
Running Deer School,
Butterdon Wood,
Moretonhampstead,
Devon, TQ13 8PY
Telephone: +44(0)1647 400201
For interventions or alternative provision enquiries:
Telephone: +44(0)1647 279332