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Student Wellbeing Officer
| Posting date: | 07 February 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 March 2025 |
| Location: | Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 2BB |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | fa59f001-5bfe-449c-86a5-2b677215c27a |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an empathetic and diligent Student Wellbeing Officer, who will work with the Pastoral Team, identifying barriers to learning and engagement of vulnerable children, leading and supporting individual plans to ensure improvement, in particular to diminish the difference in attendance between the Disadvantaged cohort and other students.
The Student Wellbeing Officer will support an identified cohort of disadvantaged students to enable an improvement in attendance and engagement in learning. The relationship between home and school is seen as crucially important in helping students to reach their full potential and therefore the role may involve home visits or meetings with parents/carers and outside agencies, in some cases leading to the preparation of case notes for legal proceedings.
The school encourages staff to participate in any relevant training, expecting them to be committed to continuous improvement and learning and to take responsibility for their professional development.
The successful candidate will have:
• A recognised qualification or equivalent experience at NVQ Level 3, GNVQ or A Level
• Recent work in a school or other organisation working with young people
• Knowledge of how to identify potential barriers to learning
• Ability to engage constructively with, and relate to, a wide range of young people and families/carers with different social backgrounds
• Ability to support and motivate students to aid improved attendance and engagement with learning
What the school offers its staff
In return we offer:
• Excellent Continued Professional Development opportunities
• A dedicated staff team supported by a committed and experienced Senior Leadership Team
• A positive environment where students are able to learn and achieve
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are seeking an empathetic and diligent Student Wellbeing Officer, who will work with the Pastoral Team, identifying barriers to learning and engagement of vulnerable children, leading and supporting individual plans to ensure improvement, in particular to diminish the difference in attendance between the Disadvantaged cohort and other students.
The Student Wellbeing Officer will support an identified cohort of disadvantaged students to enable an improvement in attendance and engagement in learning. The relationship between home and school is seen as crucially important in helping students to reach their full potential and therefore the role may involve home visits or meetings with parents/carers and outside agencies, in some cases leading to the preparation of case notes for legal proceedings.
The school encourages staff to participate in any relevant training, expecting them to be committed to continuous improvement and learning and to take responsibility for their professional development.
The successful candidate will have:
• A recognised qualification or equivalent experience at NVQ Level 3, GNVQ or A Level
• Recent work in a school or other organisation working with young people
• Knowledge of how to identify potential barriers to learning
• Ability to engage constructively with, and relate to, a wide range of young people and families/carers with different social backgrounds
• Ability to support and motivate students to aid improved attendance and engagement with learning
What the school offers its staff
In return we offer:
• Excellent Continued Professional Development opportunities
• A dedicated staff team supported by a committed and experienced Senior Leadership Team
• A positive environment where students are able to learn and achieve
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.