Primary Purpose of the Role:
To complement the work of our multi-disciplined team by:
* Provide a school social work service to promote the safety, welfare, and health and wellbeing of our young people.
* Using social work skills and experience and applying a trauma informed and attachment aware approach to ensure that our safeguarding practices and procedures are outstanding across the organisation.
* Supporting school policy and processes for improving attendance, managing safeguarding concerns, and promoting young people’s wellbeing.
* Supporting the management and leadership team with compliance, implementation and management of the school’s Positive Behaviour and Restorative Discipline Policy, child protection and attendance policy. Contribute to the compliance and quality of the Independent School Standards.
* Providing core group support for the delivery of Early Help functions including accountability for leading implementation, monitoring, and development across school, families, and partners.
* Identifying needs and implementing agreed programmes that enable children and young people to overcome their barriers to both learning and wellbeing.
* Establishing good relationships with the children and young people and follow the Raise the Youth ethos of putting the needs of children and young people first and promoting positive behaviour.
* To promote and deliver effective collaborative ‘working together’ with all agencies and organisations to promote the welfare of young people and professionally respond to young people identified needs, vulnerabilities and risks and take timely action to ensure the school safeguard young people and their families.
Responsible to: Assistant Principal
Principle responsibilities: All aspects of safeguarding and risk management work. To have a focus on attendance, welfare, and promoting young people wellbeing so that they can safely enjoy attending and engaging in school and its learning and activities to make overall progress in their lives and prepare them for positive destinations. To deliver a highly skilled social work-based model of care, support, prevention, intervention, and response to the needs of young people, families, and the wider school community. To contribute to the assessment, action planning, delivery of services and reporting and review process.
Applications: Applications should be completed to demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the Job Description and Person Specification and returned to Recruitment@raisetheyouth.co.uk
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