Family Debt Liaison Officer
The Swan School, Oxford, OX2 7WPThis job expired on 8 March 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 March 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £5,400.00 - £5,950.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 6 (10 hours per week, term time only). Fixed term for 5 months starting March/April. Salary quoted is the annual equivalent.
Family Debt Liaison Officer job summary
As the Family Debt Liaison Officer, you will support the School Business Manager by liaising with families with overdue debt to establish manageable debt repayment programmes and therefore reduce the levels of debt. You will support access to education by identifying families in financial hardship and assisting them with applications for different forms of financial support, e.g. Free School Meals and the Hardship Fund.
You will have strong administrative skills and be highly organised. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and previous experience of having challenging conversations with the goal of mutually agreeable and achievable end result. Experience of debt collection within a public sector organisation is desirable but not essential
You will be confident with IT. Strong numeracy skills are needed but financial qualifications or experience are not essential.
The successful candidate will share our ambitions for our students, and be motivated to help our students and their families have the best experience of school.
This is initially a temporary, part time role, but there may be opportunities for the role to expand later as the school grows. The duration of the role is likely to be from February to May 2024. We can be flexible about the working pattern of hours for the right candidate. This role is term time only.
About the School
The Swan School is a free school which opened in September 2019 as part of the River Learning Trust (RLT). When fully subscribed it will have approximately 1200 students on the roll, of whom around 300 will be in the Sixth Form. Learning from the most successful approaches at the best schools, The Swan School provides a uniquely challenging and structured experience in a caring and disciplined environment. The ethos is academic; we regard an excellent academic education as the entitlement of all young people, no matter what their background or previous experiences of learning. Students will be inspired and nurtured, acquiring the knowledge and skills to think critically and creatively. They will learn to be confident, resilient and ambitious, and will have high expectations in terms of their own achievements and their contribution to wider society.
What we can offer
- The chance to make a real difference to families suffering financial hardship
- A supportive and friendly environment where all staff are part of the team
- Flexible working pattern with part-time term-time only hours
The Swan School is part of the River Learning Trust. RLT employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
How to Apply
If you have any questions or would like to speak to someone about this post, please contact headteacher@theswanschool.org.uk or call us on 01865 416070 to arrange an appointment. Please contact us if you have any queries regarding the application process.
The River Learning Trust and The Swan School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
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 Swan School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 862 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Swan School website (opens in new tab)
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