Home School Community Key Person - Furze Down School
Location: Buckingham
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37
Interviews to be held: Week Commencing 11th November
About us
At Furze Down School, our vision is to create a Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs through our specialism in Communication and Interaction. We aim to raise the profile and status of children with Special Educational Needs and to provide support to their families and carers. We inspire and empower children and young people with SEN to become ambitious and aspirational for their futures while fostering curiosity and a love of learning alongside the development of key concepts, knowledge, skills, and attributes important for flourishing in life, learning, work, and leisure.
Job Summary
You will be responsible for a key child with Autism and complex sensory needs. Your responsibilities include:
1. Bridging the gap between home and school by providing bespoke support to meet the needs of the key child in the school, home, and local environment.
2. Fostering positive relationships with the family, staff, and wider professionals.
3. Communicating effectively using a Total Communication Approach.
4. Working closely and collaboratively with the EYFS/KS1 lead, link therapists, family, and external professionals to develop and review a bespoke provision.
5. Contributing to daily planning, monitoring, and assessment.
6. Adhering to the risk assessment and stress reduction plan.
7. Taking proactive action to address and minimise risk.
A full clean UK driving license, car ownership, and the ability and willingness to drive with the child as a passenger are essential requirements for this role.
About you
Please see the Person Specification attached.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Our school is wholly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers, and visitors to share this commitment. We have a legal duty of care for the health, safety, security, and wellbeing of all pupils and staff.
This duty of care incorporates the duty to ‘safeguard’ all pupils, and it is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that this duty is uncompromised at all times. In performing this duty, we recognise that there can be no complacency where child protection and safeguarding procedures are concerned.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
* All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
* All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e., that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
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