Safeguarding and Wellbeing Officer
Nailsea School
Nailsea, North Somerset
- Expired
- Salary:
- JG 5
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2021
- Apply by:
- 30 July 2021
Job overview
Grade/Salary JG5 (range of 22-26) Actual Salary £18,283
37hrs per week - term-time plus 3 INSET days
Overall Job Purpose:
To work with Pastoral and Wellbeing Manager, the pastoral team and the Assistant Head teacher (Behaviour and Wellbeing) sharing responsibility for safeguarding and child protection across the school. The successful candidate will be trained or will attend Level 2 Safeguarding Training.
To act as the named administrative lead for Safeguard My School – our software package that records any safeguarding concerns.
To take part in strategy discussions/inter-agency meetings and contribute to the assessment of children. This will also include advising and supporting other members of staff on child welfare and child protection matters.
To be First Aid trained (Training will be offered to enable this to be the case if the qualification is not already held by the successful candidate)
Main Responsibilities:
• To provide care, support and advice to students across all key stages to improve their social and emotional development and wellbeing.
• To intervene with personal issues that are affecting students’ performance and advise senior and middle leaders on appropriate action.
• To be the first point of contact and liaison between families and other children’s agencies, such as social services or child health where appropriate, supporting students with integration issues within the wider school environment.
• To carry out the role, as the lead non teaching member of staff within the Safeguarding Team, with a high degree of professionalism and integrity.
• To act as the named administrative lead on Safeguard my School, ensuring high quality records are kept and information is shared appropriately and in a timely fashion in line with guidance, including the preparation of written reports when required.
• To be an excellent role model for students.
• To develop a relationship with students, which is professional, firm, fair, caring and friendly.
• To ensure all communication with parents/carers is accurate and timely.
• To assist with the organisation of Parents’ Evenings / Open Evenings and other calendared events (such as transition projects, and Year 6 taster days)
We can offer you:
• The opportunity to work supportive and driven colleagues
• CPD opportunities through a personalised programme and as part of a Teaching School Alliance
• Time to develop wider leadership skills across the school
Nailsea School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical questionnaire and satisfactory references.
Application Process
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For further details and relevant application form please visit our website: www.nailseaschool.com
If you have any questions or queries please contact Lorraine Coombs, Assistant Business Manager, HR, on 01275 866799
Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday 30th July 2021
Proposed interview date: Wk comm 2nd August
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About Nailsea School
Our School
Nailsea School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form. Situated less than 10 miles from Bristol it enjoys the benefits of a small town whilst being on the doorstep of one of the U.K.’s most prosperous, vibrant and creative cities. Nailsea School is a community that demonstrates a common purpose - to ensure the very best for each and everyone of their students.
At Nailsea School all students are valued and each individual is encouraged to be the best version of themselves: to Aspire, Believe and Succeed.
The Whole Child
The change from childhood to adulthood can be challenging and we believe that confidence, happiness and strong communication skills form the foundations for success. Our in-school pastoral team advise and nurture the whole child, offering support with social skills, peer problems, anxiety, home or academic issues. Experts in safeguarding, counselling and mentoring work alongside our Heads of House and tutors to support students well-being. The House structure’s vertical tutor groups integrate year groups and encourages peer to peer learning and support. This leads to strong friendships, confident relationships between groups and a comfortable family base from which students thrive. Feedback from a dynamic student voice programme connecting the whole school, reveals students to be happy and flourishing. We are proud of the behaviour of our students and visitors often remark on the studious, calm atmosphere within the school. Staff and students work together to ensure the effectiveness of rules and behaviour policies around the school create a fair and safe environment for all, with a focus on effort as well as achievement.
A Place for Everyone
Understanding that each child is different, Nailsea School has developed a range of inclusive ways to meet individual needs including a specialist learning centre within the school for students with specific educational needs and disabilities. The Hub is a place where children access a reduced mainstream timetable to improve literacy, numeracy and social skills. The low stress setting of The Hub, within the centre of the school, provides a nurturing environment through Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, and children using this area are encouraged to join in with mainstream life.
Teachers at Nailsea are skilled in adopting and responding to the learning needs of all students and there is also extra support in the form of dedicated Teaching and Learning Support Assistants within lessons for those who experience specific learning difficulties.
Our Facilities
Nailsea School was re-built in 2009 and the space speaks for itself; designed with students in mind, its free-flowing structure makes navigation easy and there is a sense of calm learning throughout the school. As well as benefiting from excellent sporting facilities, including an all-weather pitch, fantastic creative arts facilities with music, TV and art studios, and technology throughout the school, it has excellent ecological credentials. Students can visit the DEN area (Developing Engagement with Nature) where forest school principles are taught. Green technology has been developed throughout the school, the main heating source is through a biomass boiler, we have sensory lighting and use solar panels to heat our water and provide electricity for external lighting. Even the toilets use recycled greywater. Our carbon footprint is improving year on year and we recycle throughout the school.
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