Havering Schools Jobs
Family Partnership Lead
- Employer: Corbets Tey School
- Reference: SCH/22/200530
Corbets Tey School
Harwood Hall Lane
Upminster. RM14 2YQ
Telephone: 01708 225888
Head Teacher: Emma Allen
Corbets Tey @ The Avelon
100 Avelon Road
Rainham RM13 7DH
Telephone: 01708 225888
Head Teacher: Emma Allen
Family Partnership Lead
Contract: Permanent
Scale: PO3
Salary: £38,385 - £41,586 p.a.
Actual Salary: £34,894 - £37,803 p.a.
Hours: 36 hours per week, 41 weeks per year.
Required: 1st September 2022 (subject to notice period of successful candidate)
Corbets Tey School is a successful special school with supportive governors, staff and 148 very special students on role across two sites. We are looking for a skilled, passionate, enthusiastic and dynamic practitioner to lead a small team to enhance our commitment to achieving positive outcomes and wellbeing for our children and their families. We would like to appoint a practitioner who will work to strengthen our families’ resilience and support them in being proactive in their own futures. With a firm focus on achieving positive outcomes the successful candidate will work closely with our vulnerable families to support positive changes and enable family health and wellbeing. We are looking for the right person to continue to strengthen our safeguarding arrangements to protect our children and families from abuse and to focus on early intervention and prevention through parent information sessions and training. The successful candidate will work with other agencies to provide seamless care and support for our families. The role will support students to have full access to educational opportunities, overcome barriers to learning and participation and support their mental health and wellbeing by creating open dialogue with families and other professionals involved in their lives.
The main responsibilities of the role:
- To lead the team of Safeguarding and Family Support Practitioners
- To develop positive and constructive partnerships in supporting and advising families, parents, carers and students
- To support students’ full access to educational opportunities and to overcome barriers to learning and participation
- To engage with local authority and community support professionals to achieve better outcomes for students and their families
- To promote and monitor the best quality service and outcomes for children and young people who are looked after or entitled to the pupil premium.
- To act as one of a number of deputy designated safeguarding leads
The successful candidate will need to
- Display excellent communication skills and ability to build effective working relationships and lead teams
- Manage conflict and difference and deal with difficult situations and/or individuals in a calm, fair but effective manner
- Understand the importance of confidentiality
- Excellent organisation, time and workload management under minimal day-to-day supervision and support
- A thorough understanding of child care, parenting skills, parental development and healthy parent-child relationships
- A thorough understanding of the range of potential barriers to learning for students
- A thorough understanding of Safeguarding/child protection frameworks and how to assess and manage intervention
- Experience within the field of education, social services/welfare or the voluntary sector and have a degree level qualification
If you wish to have an informal discussion about the role or would like to visit the school prior to applying please contact us on 01708 225888.
Please apply online
Closing date for applications: 11.59pm Sunday 3rd July 2022
Interviews to be held: Week commencing Monday 11th July 2022
This post is exempt from the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the successful applicant will be expected to undertake an enhanced disclosure.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Everybody who works for the school is expected to share and promote this commitment and to have, or acquire, the relevant abilities, skills and knowledge to carry it out.
Havering Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The protection of our pupils from abuse is the responsibility of all staff within our schools, superseding any other considerations. Therefore Havering Schools comply with the Department for Education ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance.
It is an offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. Please be advised that, again in line with ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, shortlisted candidates (who wish to accept an invite to interview) will be required to submit, prior to their interview, a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Upon submission of this information, online checks may be carried out.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the successful applicant will be expected to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure check. Having a criminal record will not necessarily debar you from obtaining a position with the School.
Equal OpportunitiesHavering Schools aim to promote and ensure equality of opportunity and equal treatment for all. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), ethnic or national origins, disabilities, age, sexual orientation, responsibility for dependants, religious or political affiliation and trade union activities. All matters related to employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
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