Educational Social Worker
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PWThis job expired on 3 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
3 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Pro-Rata Salary
Educational Social Worker job summary
Are you looking for a career in a thriving, friendly and supportive environment where staff welfare is a priority? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people in a role that really matters? If so, The Bishop of Winchester Academy wants you!
The academy has a rare and exciting opportunity for a qualified Social Worker to take on the fundamental role of working with our pastoral leaders in ensuring our outstanding school attendance is maintained by students and helping to transform their futures.
We would be delighted to welcome you on a tour of the academy and answer any questions that you may have, prior to applying.
The successful candidate will be resilient, highly committed to the role and passionate about providing efficient and dependable support to our students and their families. You will champion the attendance, safeguarding and overall wellbeing of our students and be motivated by the prospect of making a difference to their lives.
The successful candidate will:
- Have a Degree in Social Work
- Have previous Social Work experience, ideally working with young people with a history of attendance
- Have previous experience in an educational or pastoral role focused on attendance improvement
- Have evidence of and be willing to undertake training for Safeguarding and DDSL
- Have an energetic, open-minded and flexible approach
- Be highly organised, methodical and able to prioritise effectively
As Educational Social Worker, you will be welcomed into an exceptional team of professionals to:
- Establishing and maintaining supportive and nurturing relationships with students and their carers
- Liaising with external agencies including the police and MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub)
- Monitoring and maintaining the academy’s Safeguarding system
- Identifying and assessing risks and devising strategies to minimise risks
- Developing support care plans and making recommendations for support from external providersTo manage attendance referrals and conduct home/welfare visits, as required. Please note that a full driving licence and access to a vehicle is therefore a requirement of this role.
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.
We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:
- Generous employer pension contribution at 23.8% of basic salary
- Career development with a bespoke CPD programme
- Excellent newly refurbished teaching facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
- Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Close proximity to beaches and the Jurassic Coast to assist your work life balance
To apply for this Educational Social Worker role, please visit the vacancies section of our website to complete an application form: https://www.tbowa.org/staff/-vacancies/support-staff
Please email completed application forms to recruitment@tbowa.org, addressing your covering letter to Mr Paul McKeown, Principal.
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
About The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1148 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Bishop of Winchester Academy website
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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