What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
• Proven skills and ability to work with young people, families, schools and other agencies, with a passion for delivering outcomes.
• Professional credibility through proven relevant experience.
• Ability and desire to model and demonstrate our values.
• Professional knowledge of young people, secondary education and family support work.
• A creative and innovative approach to solution focused working, with the ability to engage, mobilise and motivate people to address challenges, and challenge perceptions, about young people in Bradford.
• A smart, flexible worker; recognising how to carry out the role in the most effective way, including collaboration and partnership working with key project partners.
• An ability to demonstrate resilience and consistency by remaining calm and in control to maintain effective work behaviours, when faced with setbacks or pressure.
• Passionate about Bradford and improved social mobility; understanding how to raise aspirations and ambitions by partnership working with young people, families, schools, the AP and other agencies.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
• An opportunity to be part of a dedicated, experienced and highly successful team
• An opportunity to make a significant contribution to our dynamic and evolving school improvement offer to schools
• An opportunity to access professional development through training and support
• A chance to make a real difference to every child’s learning
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.