Inclusion and Welfare Officer
Wye School, Wye, Kent, TN25 5EJThis job expired on 20 February 2023 – see similar jobs
Closing date
20 February 2023 at 9am
Date listed
25 January 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Up to £19,135 per annum (0.86 FTE), pro rata to the full-time equivalent of £22,275 per annum, dependent on experience
Inclusion and Welfare Officer job summary
Wye School opened in September 2013 with a single intake of Year 7 students who delivered our excellent first GCSE results in August 2018, followed by strong GCSE and then A Level results in following years. We are a mixed comprehensive school. Ofsted praised our, ‘very vibrant and strong leadership... clear and aspirational vision,’ and, ‘high level of ambition for the students and the school.’
Located within close proximity of Wye village centre, the school is at the very heart of the local community and has the potential to grow into a truly exceptional school. Wye is perfectly located to enjoy the Kent countryside, whilst still being within an hour of London thanks to HS1.
Inclusion and Welfare Officer
This is a Fixed Term Contract until April 2024
The role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in a role that you can make your own within a flourishing school?
We are looking for an Inclusion and Welfare Officer to join our team to assist our existing SEN, pastoral and attendance teams. The core role is to help fill gaps in the wrap around care for vulnerable and emotional students, helping them transition back into school after absence, helping them deal with relationship issues, supporting the pastoral team and attendance team by ensuring students are calm and ready to access their lessons. This role is not to run a long term alternative provision, but, to help students who are not coping with mainstream lessons overcome their barriers in the short to medium term e.g. meet them as they arrive at school, get them to where they should be, check in with them at break etc. Coaching and mentoring students is part of the role, as is potentially one to one or small group tuition for candidates with the right academic backgrounds. Occasional lesson cover, taking part in school trips, running or supporting school clubs and sports fixtures are all things that you can take part in depending on your likes and experience. You would be out and about at lesson change, break and lunch, helping ensure the students you support are calm and happy as they move around site.
We have well behaved students and a clear and well established behaviour policy that you would be trained in. This role is to support the small number of students who struggle with that and need extra support. Contact with parents and external agencies will form part of the role, as would occasional home visits.
The successful candidate will be able to assist teaching and support staff with the smooth running of the school, establish good relationships with our students and make an important contribution to our wider school life via co-curricular activities.
About You
You will be working alongside our teachers and support staff, so you will need to be pro-active, organised, enthusiastic and able to use your initiative. Good time keeping and the ability to present yourself professionally are essential. This role would suit someone with experience of working in a school or youth work, experience of coaching or someone who wants to work in a school before going into teacher training or a teaching assistant role. Experience is useful but we are also open to recent graduates/training leavers with the right attitude and ability to learn.
As part of a busy school environment, the ability to deal with pupils and parents, in a polite and helpful manner is essential. You must be mature and understand about the importance of confidentiality and safeguarding in taking on such a role. People are more important than posts to us so if you think you would fit into an upbeat and diverse team and enjoy the fact that no two days are the same, we may be able to offer your ideal role.
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 Wye School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 573 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Wye School website (opens in new tab)
Wye School, which opened as a new Free School in September 2013, is an all-ability, co-educational school serving up to 600 students aged 11 to 19. It is part of United Learning – a group of over 60 independent schools and academies across the country.
Our drive is to provide an excellent standard of education for the whole community which supports and develops each and every individual to be the very best they can be.
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