Job Title: Year Care Team Officer
Start Date: ASAP
Deadline: Monday 10th February 2025
Interviews: ASAP
Scale: Scale 5 (SCP 22-25) at SCP 22 is (FTE £29,803). Actual salary £25,409 per annum
Appointment: Full Time & Permanent - 36 hours per week (39 weeks per year)
About Us:
Our vision is simple – to ensure that all of our students achieve beyond our expectations and thrive as confident learners with the highest aspirations, ready for a bright and successful future and ready for the world in which they will work and live. We are relentless in our pursuit of the very best for all our students. We understand challenges but do not accept them as limitations.
Welling School is an all ability, co-educational 11-18 school, located in the London borough of Bexley. As well as serving our local community, we welcome students from a diverse range of backgrounds and areas. Each of them bringing their own part to make up the Welling School Community. We are proud to be part of The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) which is one of the largest Multi Academy Trusts in South East England with over 40 Primary and Secondary Academies in the TKAT family. We are an ambitious school on a transformational journey to excellence and are always looking for excellent potential colleagues to come and help us achieve the very best for our students. See our website for further information about the school
The Role:
We are looking to appoint an inspirational and dynamic colleague to join our Year Care Team. A team of committed and talented colleagues who will do whatever it takes to help our young people achieve great things - beyond expectations. As a member of the Year Care team, you will be working with students and their families to offer personalised and bespoke support and guidance. Working with a particular year group you will be responsible for promoting students’ positive attitudes to themselves, their peers and their learning.
You will be a real advocate for students, especially those that need us even more and will work hard to help them maintain excellent attendance and meet the school’s high expectations of behaviour and conduct. Over time, you will get to know the students in your year groups very well. You will understand their individuality and know how to get the very best out of them and importantly what they need in order to achieve their very best. You will forge profitable and trusting relationships that inspire confidence and help bridge the gap between school and home.
This role will also afford the chance to make a significant contribution each day to the running of the school and supporting the year group’s Achievement Team Leader in ensuring the highest standards of engagement and learning as well as working with other professionals to develop student ambition and resilience for a successful future. No two days will ever be the same - although they will always be rewarding and exciting. Your previous experience as a school professional is less important to us than your clear vision on what can be achieved for our students and how we can motivate and inspire them to achieve great things. Because you have a calm, personable and patient manner and because you are creative, persistent and interested you will know why that is.
Our new colleague will have an unstinting belief that every young person, whatever their starting point or circumstances, can make and sustain exceptional progress and that our purpose is to change lives.
You will have access to on-going development opportunities and the support of a forward thinking, successful multi-academy trust. You will be joining a team of strong and experienced staff who will do whatever it takes to help you to succeed in your new and exciting role. As well as having a passion for young people and their futures our colleague will:
●be an approachable warm professional with the ability to foster excellent relationships
●be compassionate and able to understand people and their own contexts
●have a high level of emotional intelligence
●bring an unwavering commitment to doing whatever it takes
●have the ability to engage and inspire others
●be steadfast in ensuring high standards
●be a resourceful problem solver
●To be tenacious and well organised with good time management This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly ambitious team of staff and make a real impact on our students’ lives. Contact and Application Information: Informal discussions with the Executive Headteacher and/or visits are actively encouraged. If you would like an informal and confidential discussion about the role and to arrange a visit to the school please email recruitment@wellingschool-tkat.org We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of applications.
Safeguarding
TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full safer recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.
Flexible working
TKAT recognises the value of enabling our employees to develop their career and balance this with their commitments and interests outside of work. In TKAT we promote flexible working practices and opportunities to promote a positive work life balance.
Our Commitment - Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging
At TKAT, we are committed to Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging. We embrace and celebrate differences, value individual experiences, aspirations, and achievements, and continuously learn how to grow better together. We actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, as we believe diversity strengthens our community and drives us forward.
Access to interview
Be Who You Are at TKAT - should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the recruitment process to enable you to participate as your authentic self. We want applicants to be able to engage with us in ways that support who they are and we are committed to making adjustments within the recruitment process and within the workplace.