Safeguarding Officer
Latymer Upper School
Hammersmith and Fulham
- Expired
- Salary:
- £40 - £45k per annum FTE (actual salary £33 – £37k per annum)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 16 June 2020
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join us and help establish the new post of Safeguarding Officer. With a minimum of two years’ experience of working within an education or social care setting, you will work with staff and parents/carers to support students who present with safeguarding concerns and/or issues related to mental health and well-being.
You will manage cases on a day-to-day basis, facilitating interventions with individual students, in school, to improve mental ill health, and/or support effective attendance. You will refer students to and liaise with external agencies as appropriate in order to access external support, write confidential reports and support plans and attend case meetings.
You will also provide professional support and advice to the pastoral team and contribute to the development of a strategic approach to the management of safeguarding, mental health and well-being provision at the School.
This role would suit a social worker or someone with experience of working in an educational or social care setting who has a sound knowledge of child protection legislation and is passionate about working with and supporting young people.
This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours a week during published term dates (including INSED) plus a further 3 weeks to be agreed.
To apply and to access further information about the role and employee benefits, please visit our dedicated recruitment website.
For further information about Latymer Upper School visit www.latymer-upper.org
Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 9am
The School will consider applications as they are received and may subsequently appoint to the role, therefore early applications are advised. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.
With the current closure of school sites across the country, we will be undertaking a remote interview and appointment process.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and receipt of two satisfactory references.
About Latymer Upper School
Latymer Upper School is first and foremost a 'learning school', vibrant, global in perspective, innovative in its teaching and learning and combining the best of the traditional and the modern. A high value is placed on scholarship in both pupils and staff and the School prides itself on the excellence of its teaching and pastoral care, its academic achievements and its exciting and innovative curriculum.
Newcomers are often surprised by the size of the site on which Latymer Upper resides, little realising on first glimpse that the School stretches from the gothic gates on King Street in Hammersmith, to Latymer's Boat House on the banks of the River Thames.
Latymer Upper School’s ethos is as strong today as it was almost 400 years ago when The Latymer Foundation at Hammersmith came into being. Our story starts in 1624 when a prosperous lawyer, Edward Latymer, left part of his wealth for the clothing and education of “eight poore boyes” from Hammersmith.
Edward Latymer's vision was to offer his wards a life-changing education that would equip them to flourish in the wider world. This vision remains firmly at the heart of the School - although we now teach rather more than those original eight Hammersmith boys. The Latymer of today consists of a vibrant, co-educational student body of 1,200 girls and boys from all over West London and beyond, and a further 167 pupils at Latymer Prep.
Latymer Upper is a happy school, where the well-being of our pupils is central to all that we aim to achieve, both in and out of the classroom. Our priority is to ensure our students are equipped with the knowledge and strategies required to live healthy, safe and balanced lives. We believe that our school should help pupils become well-rounded young people, comfortable in themselves and in the company of others, whatever their differences. There are no typical Latymer Upper pupils, but we do encourage values such as politeness and helpfulness, and seek to instill a genuine sense of social responsibility.
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