Safeguarding and Attendance Lead
Wishmore Cross Academy, Woking, Surrey, GU24 8NE12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
4 December 2024 at 3:40pm
Date listed
13 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34834 - £36648 per annum
Safeguarding and Attendance Lead job summary
Salary: NJC 26 - 28 £34,834 - £36,648 (actual), £29,828 - £31,381 (pro rata salary) + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
Hours: 37, 39 weeks
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Start date: January 2025
Are you passionate about education and looking for a fulfilling career?
We're looking for a dedicated safeguarding and Attendance lead to join our supportive team at Wishmore Cross Academy.
You're someone who'll be able to:
* To monitor and report on whole-school attendance data, using data to identify key areas of concern.
* You will be able to work closely with pupils, staff, parents and carers to reduce levels of absence, and act appropriately when persistent absence becomes a safeguarding issue.
Looking to make a difference every day?
Join our team and play a vital role in ensuring our students receive the education they deserve. You'll provide invaluable support to delivering an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
You're someone who has:
* A strong background in a school environment, including experience as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) or Deputy DSL.
* Proven track record in identifying and implementing effective interventions to improve student attendance.
* The ability to support students, staff, and families in creating a safe and engaging educational atmosphere.
This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of young people.
Wishmore Cross Academy is part of Lift schools, Wishmore Cross is a special school in Chobham, Surrey, for boys aged 7 to 16 years who have social, emotional and mental health difficulties. We admit up to 82 pupils which means class sizes are small and we work very closely with our pupils to ensure each day the pupils encounter a wide range of experiences inside and outside the classroom.
Ready to apply? Get in touch here. We can't wait to hear from you.
The role is due to commence January 2025. This is a permanent, full time position.
Closing date: Monday 9th December 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Commitment to safeguarding
Prior to employment all staff (paid or voluntary) are DBS checked for their suitability to work with children and young people. For more information on the Disclosure Barring Service, please click the link below.
Once the member of staff joins our school, they complete online Safeguarding training provided by Educare and sign an online AET Code of Conduct. Refresher training is provided every academic year by either one of the safeguarding team or an outside provider.
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 Wishmore Cross Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 16
- School size
- 65 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Wishmore Cross Academy website (opens in new tab)
Wishmore Cross is a school for boys aged 7 - 16, and all of our pupils have EHCPs (Educational Health and Care Plans) which detail their Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs (SEMH).
We work as a school to understand our pupils, their diagnosed and hidden needs, educate ourselves and them around these needs; and support our pupils to find their best, stable selves so that they can function independently and achieve in the world.
Our pupils may have histories of a difficult engagement with education, and our staff team works tirelessly to build secure, key worker relationships, so that we can change our pupils’ ideas of what their schooling can and should be like.
We are a school undergoing transformation and change, and are looking forward to a site that has been completely redecorated, a site that provides for our pupils sensory, occupational therapy and mental health needs, and a site that stimulates them to engage and learn in various ways.
We also work with our Local Authority to support the speech, language and communication needs that are associated with our pupils’ SEMH needs - hoping that we will teach our children to be able to tell us how they feel, understand others’ perspectives and relearn how to manage themselves and their actions when their emotions feel overwhelming.
A fair proportion of our school body joins us at Year 6 and stays with us till Year 11, but we also take in-year admissions in partnership with our Local Authority (Surrey County Council), working to make these transitions as smooth as can be.
We look forward to building more partnerships with our parents and families, within our local community and with borough and county educational services, so that our pupils can make the most of their school years.
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