Keyworker
Include School Norfolk, Norfolk, NR6 6HE5 days remaining to apply
Closing date
18 October 2025 at 1am
Date listed
22 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,000 per annum (FTE)
Keyworker job summary
Tel: 01603 401515
Web: https://www.includenorfolk.org.uk/
- Salary: Up to £28,000 per annum (FTE)
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Term time + 2 weeks
Main Duties & Accountabilities
Service Users:
- Work with the Assistant Head Teachers and Pastoral Leads to develop a case load and support students to engage within the school environment by providing initial assessment of learners’ educational, emotional and behavioural needs and tailor advocacy and support programs around these.
- Work with colleagues to design, implement and review pupil support plans for each young person in the caseload according to identified needs at assessment. Specific consideration should be given to establishing critical baseline data regarding attendance, attainment and predicted grades followed by the use of agreed performance monitoring methodology relating to soft and hard outcomes.
- To drive attendance within your caseload, this includes making attendance calls (daily), attending attendance meetings where necessary, and running attendance interventions, as agreed by the Attendance Support Officer & Pastoral Manager.
- To work closely with teaching staff to ensure continuity of delivery and concretisation of learning lessons whether they be educational or social.
- To organise and deliver 1:1 and small group targeted support, advice, guidance, practical help and mentoring for learners as appropriate to their needs and context.
- To ensure all young people in the caseload are risk assessed regularly to identify issues and concerns relating to vulnerability and risk of harm to self or others. This includes any attendance risk assessments.
- To track pastoral progress of the young people in your caseload with regards to school attainment, classroom behaviour and risk of exclusion in order to inform development and review of intervention content.
- Under the guidance of the Pastoral Site Lead or Assistant Headteacher liaise with, and make referrals to, other agencies where necessary.
- Participate in multi-disciplinary teams and meetings, for example PEPs, planning and review, core group.
- Willingness to work in a range of settings including school, college, court, police station and young offender’s institutions. Working in a flexible manner to include occasion evening and residential trips.
- Ensure Pupil support plans are up to date regularly, reflecting their daily support needs.
- To ensure all safeguarding concerns are recorded timely and accurately (same day) in line with the safeguarding policy.
- To ensure all behaviours within school are managed effectively and timely inline with the behaviour policy.
For Resources
- Keep accurate records, which might be used in case conferences and regular professional meetings.
- To efficiently record all details of each contact or work session with young people using the agreed database system, to keep that data management system up to date and to produce reports to support case reviews and evaluations as requested.
- Ensure the effective and efficient management and organisation of learning and patoral resources, including digital technologies.
- Ensure that all resources have been properly risk assessed and are appropriate for use by pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Inclusion
- Actively contribute to our ambition of creating an inclusive culture, recognising and e mbracing difference. Act in line with, promote and carry out all responsibilities with full regard to Catch22’s Equality and Diversity Policy.
- Promote and demonstrate anti discriminatory practice.
Health, Safety and Wellbeing
Follow safe systems of work at all times in accordance with your responsibilities as an employee of Catch22. Report incidents in line with Catch22’s Health and Safety policy, so that remedial action can be taken to prevent an accident or ill health. Take reasonable care of your own health, safety and wellbeing and help support those around you with theirs.
Other requirements
- Reflect the vision, mission aims and values of Catch22 at all times. Role model Catch22 behaviours.
- Adhere to the schools code of conduct policy, safeguarding policy & behaviour policy at all times.
- Complete mandatory training in line with Catch22’s policy and procedures
How to Apply:
Click Apply for job, and you will be redirected to our website to apply.
Closing date: 18 October 2025
Interview date: TBC
Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To this end, you may be required to undergo pre-employment checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Further information about the job
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Include School Norfolk
- School type
- Independent school, ages 14 to 16
- School size
- 96 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 14 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Include School Norfolk website
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