Community Engagement Manager
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,331 to £47,532 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, N17 0PG |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BRA-5815-91 |
Summary
Community Engagement Manager
Location: Haringey, UK
Salary: SCP 32 - 35, £44,331 - £47,532
Education Phase: Secondary
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 13th August 2025
Interview Date: 15th August 2025
About our client
Our client is a charitable Trust of entrepreneurial community schools and colleges that help young people to reach their potential. They support their schools' Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at early years, primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of their students.
They believe that education should be stimulating, enriching and enjoyable.
That strong schools achieve this through creating the right environment for high-quality learning having strong, broad and relevant curricula; by having clear boundaries, building excellent relationships and working to close gaps for every learner.
They believe that a great education empowers people, both children and adults, because it offers them genuine choices for their future decisions. And helps them to appreciate the value of learning throughout their lives.
Job Description
Overall Purpose of the Role:
This role exists to ensure that there is strong engagement between the Academy and its local community.The role will reach into admissions and enrolment; EAL and additional needs; and pastoral, attendance and welfare support.As such it works in close partnership with expert leads in the school including pastoral teams, safeguarding, additional needs and admissions officers.Making sure that school in all its facets is accessible to all of the community and using school to fulfil its broadest civic duty, this officer will ensure a full offer of multi-agency support is available in their Community Hub space.Engagement is a strong indicator of future success for their students, meaning that this post is central to the current and future success of the breadth of their local community.
Key Duties:
- Manage the Community Hub, ensuring that it runs daily as a safe space, is well looked-after by all and is a welcoming, tidy and orderly place for all who visit it.
- Meet the needs of the local community who attend the Hub to ask for support with applications, ongoing enrolment matters, and/or any matters relating to their child's time at the Academy.
- Work in close partnership with the staff team to ensure that parents get the support and assistance they require, even if language or other barriers exist for them.
- Where appropriate, signpost matters and concerns arising to other staff so that there is holistic support for families and for students, and they are flagged up for school support as required.
- Lead the school in utilising technology and other aides to ensure that language is less and less of a barrier for parents, potential parents and newly-enrolled students with low levels of English.Ensure that this is modelled in the Hub, and also rolled out across the school as appropriate.
- Work with additional needs staff to identify potential barriers to school accessibility and address these barriers including, but not exclusively, signage.
- Build a weekly programme of self-funded external agency drop-ins to the Community Hub, which could include medical, Citizens Advice, housing, debt advice etc.Work with the DSL and school leaders to determine the scope of these invite to external agencies.
- Ensure the suitability of all external contributions to the Community Hub, along with the conduct of all attending.Raise any concerns immediately with senior leaders and the DSL.
- Run a range of group interventions for parents as part of the Hub programme, based upon postholder's qualifications and expertise.
- Build a holiday programme of provision that includes ongoing support for the community alongside sign-up sessions for students - offered first to students known to the additional needs/safeguarding team.
- Act as a facilitator/leader of student holiday provision and work with school leaders to explore funding available to employ other staff for holiday programmes.
- Keep clear, timely, and accurate records of all pupil and family contact, interventions, and referrals.Use CPOMs, Bromcom and other platforms as required to ensure that there is appropriate and timely record-keeping.
- Provide evidence of impact for reviews, reports, and funding purposes.
- Be alert to signs of concern and raised these swiftly with the Designated Safeguarding Lead.
- Promote positive attendance and school expectations around behaviour etc.
Benefits
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