HSLW
Wantage Church of England Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8DJ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
3 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,559.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE)
HSLW job summary
Come and join the team!
Home School Link Worker
Are you a current or aspiring Home School Link Worker (HSLW) looking for a new opportunity? If you enjoy making a meaningful difference to the lives of children and families, this role is the perfect opportunity for you.
The successful candidate will work at Wantage CE Primary School to support children and families to thrive in school. A main focus of the role will be to help families to address barriers to attendance and success in school for their children.
We are looking for someone to add their experience to our successful and supportive Pastoral Team led by our Pastoral Lead. You will be a suitably qualified professional who is able to demonstrate and deploy well-developed professional skills, knowledge and abilities in order to add value to both schools and fulfil this role successfully. You will need a positive, resilient attitude and be able to support our most vulnerable families and children.
The successful candidate will be approachable, knowledgeable, particularly in relation to Safeguarding procedures, as they will work closely with the Headteacher and Pastoral Lead as part of the school pastoral team.
We are looking for someone:
Who is resilient, relentless and believes all children can succeed.
Is a highly skilled communicator.
Form strong, empathetic relationships with parents and teaching staff & uphold confidentiality.
Who is highly motivated and able to efficiently manage their timetable and prioritise workload according to need and as directed.
Has ability to work flexibly and effectively on your own and as part of a team.
Some understanding of the range of issues which can affect learning and attendance as well as an understanding of how to signpost families to receive help.
Has sound ICT skills to keep efficient, concise and accessible records.
Has English and Maths to GCSE grade C.
Has a positive attitude and a sense of humour.
Hours/Working Pattern & Salary
Come and join the team….
Responsible to: Senior Leadership Team
Contract Hours: 37 hours per week (term time only). Flexible working hours can be discussed.
Pay Range: Grade 8, scale P18 -P23 (£30, 559- £33,366 (pro rata) depending on experience and current qualification.
Closing Date: 3rd January 2025
Benefits include: Free car parking, Employee Assistance Programme and a focus on staff wellbeing, Term time only, Flexibility with hours.
How to apply
If you are interested or would like further information (visits to our lovely school are warmly welcomed) please contact Andy Browne via the Wantage CE Primary School office.
A full job description can be found on MyNewTerm.
Safer Recruitment and equal opportunities
Wantage CE Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting
procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Wantage CE Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Wantage Church of England Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 426 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Pupils at Wantage CE Primary School are safe, happy and enjoy their learning. We are well-supported by the Vale Academy Trust, governors, the local church, parents, and the wider community. This allows us to offer our pupils a broad and balanced curriculum that enables pupils to flourish and to live life to the full.
We are pleased to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities including sports clubs such as judo, rugby, netball, tennis, frisbee, water-polo, tri-golf and ‘quad kids’ athletics. We are very proud of our sporting successes and the ever-increasing percentage of children who take part in a wide range of sports. We achieved the Schools Sports Mark Platinum Award this year, an accolade which we are proud of. We also competed in several local maths competitions and ran popular computing and robotics clubs.
We have a rich tradition of music at Wantage CE. Every year, Year 3 learn a brass instrument; and individual instrument lessons take place in all years including flute, keyboard, piano, drums and guitar. Gordon Campbell, VAT music specialist, teaches one day a week, leading Key Stage choirs and whole-school singing.
Our church links are very important to us. A team from church present a weekly Open the Book assembly and join us for collective worship. We attend church each term and we look forward to the Prayer Space team who visit us twice a year. Our Year 5 pupils enjoy the dedicated support of the nuns from St Mary’s Convent Wantage in helping them to understand the deeper meaning and significance of the Passion play which the pupils write, produce and perform every Easter.
Staff development continues to remain at the heart of Wantage CE Primary School. We have two staff who have completed their teacher training and are now teaching full time with us, we employed the first apprentice TA in the trust (he is performing extremely well), and this year we have a TA who has progressed to train as a SCITT with us.
School staff, parents and governors have together formulated a distinctive Christian vision for the school. Excellence for all in an environment of love, respect, hope, forgiveness and courage; where every pupil flourishes and lives life to the full.
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