HLTA - Student Wellbeing Team - Designated Safeguarding Deputy
Talbot Specialist School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 9JPThis job expired on 26 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
3 June 2024
Closing date
26 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Term time: 33.5hrs per week Term Time plus 1 week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £30,825 and £34,834
Pay scale
- NJC Scp 21-26
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you:
- A highly effective or aspiring Deputy Safeguarding Lead, with good communication skills who can motivate and encourage colleagues
- Able to reflect and work in partnership with colleagues, families and other agencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledgeable about SEND, understand procedures, documentation and have experience of working with other professionals
- Experienced in working with young people with profound and complex learning difficulties and/or ASD
- Motivated to build on your existing skills
If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here, and we will offer you:
- Support and leadership from a highly experienced senior leader and DSL
- On-going professional development
- A committed and enthusiastic team who work together to find solutions
Candidates should be willing to take responsibility for basic care and hygiene as part of their duties to ensure that the students can gain full access to the curriculum. This includes meeting personal care needs and feeding.
Undertaking training in the following areas will be a requirement: Moving and Handling, Makaton Signing, Team Teach (Positive Handling Techniques), Safeguarding and Medical Needs.
If you believe you have the skills, energy and vision to support our students, we would be delighted to hear from you.
We would encourage you to take a look at our website: www.talbotlearningcommunity.org.uk
What the school offers its staff
Talbot Specialist School is a recently inspected good school for students aged 11-19 with Cognition and Learning Difficulties – including emotional needs, behavioural needs, profound and complex learning difficulties and autism. We are based in the South of Sheffield, serving approximately 230 young people and their families from across the city. Situated on the same site as Newfield School, we offer high quality facilities which enable our students to be as independent and prepared as possible to have purposeful and fulfilled adult lives. We actively seek opportunities to promote inclusion and work closely with Newfield and other Sheffield Special Schools.
We have a new leadership team in place and are developing our provision to include learning at different sites across the city. This is an exciting time to join the school and to be part of our amazing journey!
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.
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About Talbot Specialist School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 217 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Talbot Specialist School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@talbot.sheffield.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01142507394
Arranging a visit to Talbot Specialist School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@talbot.sheffield.sch.uk.
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