University Collegiate School, Part of Quest Trust, are looking to recruit an inspiring and talented Pastoral and Welfare Officer - Head of House.
Professional Responsibilities & School Ethos
Uphold the culture and ethos of the Trust, ensuring school environments for teaching and learning that empower both staff and children to achieve their highest potential and be their best selves.
Work with colleagues in creating, inspiring and promoting excellence at all levels.
Attend and participate in events intrinsic to the daily life of the schools and Trust, celebrating success at every opportunity.
Actively support the Trust’s policies relating to equality and diversity, inclusion and safeguarding, health and well-being, confidentiality and social networking.
Key Responsibilities
· Deliver interventions to support students facing challenges.
· Provide counselling and mentoring to students in need through outside agencies or in-house practice.
· Act as Head of House overseeing the pastoral care of a specific cohort.
· Work closely with staff and parents to address students’ welfare concerns.
· Contribute to the development and implementation of welfare policies and procedures linked to supporting students.
· To support the leadership and management with the development, implementation, and monitoring of the school pastoral care function
· To identify, monitor, evaluate and support student progress tracking and target setting.
· To mentor and supervise students when required, including social times.
· To liaise regularly with parents/carers
· To work with the relevant senior manager to identify students who are vulnerable.
· To support the relevant Senior Leader to develop, implement and maintain appropriate information and recording systems to provide management reports as required.
· To support the relevant Senior Leader in ensuring that the principles of care, guidance and support are there to impact on pupil/student attainment.
· To ensure the maintenance of accurate up-to-date information concerning the relevant area.
· To implement and maintain robust reporting systems to monitor and evaluate the pastoral function and to be responsible for child protection documentation as a DDSL.
· To assist with the development of relevant school policies and procedures and ensure they are effectively implemented.
· To contribute to the development of effective links with partner schools, the community.
Safeguarding
· To support and initiate and coordinate referrals to social care, attending and contributing reports for relevant meetings and keeping careful records of actions, liaising with school staff.
· To support the DSL in responding in a timely manner to safeguarding concerns to ensure pupils are kept safe from harm.
· To support the DSL to pro-actively work with parents/carers and other agencies through joint planning and monitoring of their arrangements for the safeguarding of children.
· To support staff who make referrals to local authority children’s social care.
· To support the DSL in keeping detailed, accurate and secure written child protection documentation.
· To support the DSL to encourage good practice by promoting and championing the school’s safeguarding and child protection policy and procedures and ensure staff can access and understand the policy and procedures.
· To support the DSL to respond appropriately to disclosures or concerns which relate to the well-being of a child and provide alerts to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) (Principal) when these happen.
· To maintain accurate, confidential, and up-to-date documentation on all cases of safeguarding and child protection and provide reports where required linked to the local authorities and wider school.
· To support the DSL to ensure that vulnerable pupils who are victims of abuse and maltreatment are supported appropriately and sensitively and that all agreed actions are successfully carried out and monitored.
· Maintain confidentiality at all times, and ensure appropriate confidentiality is maintained by all staff during safeguarding processes.
Other Specific Duties
· To carry out the duties in the most effective, efficient, and economic manner available (including meeting, corridor duties, internal exclusion and the ‘On-Call’ system).
· To continue personal development in the relevant area.
· To participate in the staff review and development appraisal process.
· To promote actively the school’s corporate policies.
· To supervise students as required
· Health and Safety Training
· To undertake Health and Safety Training on areas within the designated work area
Performance Management and Professional Development
· Embrace and actively take part in CPD, fulfilling obligations to maintain and continue professional development in line with the QUEST expectations.
· Take a shared responsibility for your own continuing professional development by participating in a range of appropriate professional development opportunities linked to pastoral and safeguarding support.
· Actively engage with the annual performance management review process, in accordance with the Trust’s policy and national guidance
· To be passionate, committed to improve your own abilities and those of others you interact with, either student or staff
· Be the embodiment of our values in action and stay true to our core moral purpose, to unlock the potential of all.