Learning Mentor, Safeguarding and Attendance Officer
Lightwoods Primary Academy, Oldbury, Sandwell, West Midlands, B68 9BG10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours per week, term time only + training days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 29,269 - 33,945 per annum pro rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
- To oversee, deliver and maintain the learning mentor program.
- To support child protection systems, arrangements in place to enable the Academy to undertake their statutory responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
- To provide safeguarding advice and guidance to Academy staff to promote the welfare of students.
- To monitor, evaluate and support with reporting on the effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements.
- To support attendance throughout the Academy.
- Uphold and maintain the Trust and School values at all times.
- To work with outside agencies to support and develop safeguarding practice within the Academy.
- To represent the Academy in the community when developing good practice around the safeguarding agenda.
- Ensure that referrals to MASH and EHA are appropriately made and outcomes recorded.
- Record and monitor the number of safeguardingreferrals made and their outcomes.
- To support both Academy students and their families with presenting safeguarding issues.
- Identify key areas of difficulty and obstacles to the effective safeguarding of children and recommend strategies for overcoming them.
- To support the Vice Principal in undertaking an annual safeguarding audit to provide an annual report of key findings and issues to the Standards and Performance Committee.
- Attendance at Safeguarding and Child Protection meetings as required.
- Work closely with the school staff and pupils to ensure that mentoring activity supports and is complementary to existing structures and procedures.
- Work with school and trust staff and the pupils to be mentored in groups or individually, to agree targets and action plan accordingly to improve the rates of progress being made in pupils’ learning.
- Use and development of ICT to support efficient and effective practice.
- The post holder must at all times carry out his/her responsibilities with due regard to the Academy's policy, organisation and arrangements for Health and Safety at Work.
What the school offers its staff
We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice where all staff can thrive. We believe that supporting our staff both personally and professionally allows them to give their very best to our students. Our aim is to foster a working culture that recognises and reflects the importance of good mental health and wellbeing and provides effective support when colleagues need it.
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 Lightwoods Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 418 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lightwoods Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@shirelandcat.net
- Phone number
- 01212811602
Arranging a visit to Lightwoods Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@shirelandcat.net.
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