What skills and experience we're looking for
• To oversee, deliver
and maintain the learning mentor program.
• To support child
protection systems, arrangements in place to enable the Academy to
undertake their statutory responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting
the welfare of children.
• To provide
safeguarding advice and guidance to Academy staff to promote the welfare
of students.
• To
monitor, evaluate and support with reporting on the effectiveness of
safeguarding arrangements.
• To
support attendance throughout the Academy.
• Uphold
and maintain the Trust and School values at all times.
• To work with outside agencies to support
and develop safeguarding practice within the Academy.
• To
represent the Academy in the community when developing good practice
around the safeguarding agenda.
• Ensure
that referrals to MASH and EHA are appropriately made and outcomes
recorded.
• Record
and monitor the number of safeguardingreferrals made and their
outcomes.
• To
support both Academy students and their families with presenting
safeguarding issues.
• Identify
key areas of difficulty and obstacles to the effective safeguarding of
children and recommend strategies for overcoming them.
• To
support the Vice Principal in undertaking an annual safeguarding audit to
provide an annual report of key findings and issues to the Standards and
Performance Committee.
• Attendance
at Safeguarding and Child Protection meetings as required.
• Work closely with the school staff and pupils to ensure that
mentoring activity supports and is complementary to existing structures
and procedures.
• Work with school and trust staff and the pupils to be
mentored in groups or individually, to agree targets and action plan
accordingly to improve the rates of progress being made in pupils’
learning.
• Use
and development of ICT to support efficient and effective practice.
• The post holder must at all times carry out his/her
responsibilities with due regard to the Academy's policy, organisation and
arrangements for Health and Safety at Work.
What the school offers its staff
We pride ourselves on being an employer
of choice where all staff can thrive. We believe that supporting our staff both
personally and professionally allows them to give their very best to our
students. Our aim is to foster a working culture that recognises and reflects
the importance of good mental health and wellbeing and provides effective
support when colleagues need it.
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.