Family Liaison Officer (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)

Elms Bank, Bury, Lancashire, M45 8PJ

2 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  13 May 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Normal working hours: Mondays 8.45 am – 4.45 pm and Tuesdays to Fridays 8.00 am to 4.00 pm The post is 37.5 hours per week term time plus 5 PAD days and 15 additional days to be worked during school closure.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade 10, SCP 24 - 27, actual salary £31,306 - £33,885

What skills and experience we're looking for

Family Liaison Officer (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead) Elms Bank School and College

Normal place of work: Elms Bank, although you may be asked to contribute towards trust wide projects.

Normal working hours: Mondays 8.45 am – 4.45 pm and Tuesdays to Fridays 8.00 am to 4.00 pm

The post is 37.5 hours per week term time plus 5 PAD days and 15 additional days to be worked during school closure.

The Trust, on behalf of Elms Bank School, are seeking to appoint a dedicated and highly motivated Family Liaison Officer (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead). The successful candidate will join a team of exceptional professionals, working with pupils who have a range of complex needs including profound and multiple learning difficulties and autism. You will be part of an excellent team and provided with extensive support that will enable you to develop to your full potential both in this role and beyond.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have the ability to nurture and develop trusting relationships with pupils, parents and carers, and families in order to support their needs.
• Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people ensuring that they are protected from harm.
• Offer a whole family approach to families with complex needs.
• Promote the self-esteem of pupils and their families.
• Support in the successful learning and participation in education activities to help pupils overcome barriers that are preventing them from achieving their full potential.

Successful candidates may be asked to work at either of our school or college sites.

What the school offers its staff

In return our trust can offer you:

• An incredible opportunity to be part of an exceptional school and work with experienced and successful leaders.
• The chance to be part of a growing and forwarding thinking trust that will provide wider opportunities in the future.
• Extensive support to progress your potential at an exciting time in our development.
• An opportunity to work within an inclusive and values driven organisation and the chance to be part of a highly skilled, dedicated, and hardworking team.
• Support with health and wellbeing via ‘Medicash’, a Health Cash Plan that is paid for by the trust and gives access to a range of helpful benefits. The trust also provides access to ‘Welbee’, a dedicated staff wellbeing improvement service.

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.

Applying for the job

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About Elms Bank

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• School size: 307 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Elms Bank website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@oaklp.co.uk
• Phone number: 01615530030
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/elms-bank (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Elms Bank

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@oaklp.co.uk.

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