Safeguarding and Pastoral Lead
Ravensdale Junior School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE3 9EY9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
6 January 2025
Closing date
22 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 November 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
- £35,235 FTE - £30,306 Actual Salary per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
You will:
- Take a lead role, working in liaison with the Senior Leadership team (SLT) in the planning, coordinating, management and evaluation of the safeguarding and child protection provision within the setting.
- Take a lead role in ensuring behaviour management strategies are effective and appropriate. Monitor progress of behaviour interventions and strategies to ensure they are robust and fit for purpose.
- Provide family centred support to remove barriers to children’s learning.
- Work directly with vulnerable children and their families and engage with outside agencies to ensure the safety and welfare of our children
- Work with the schools’ inclusion team to help coordinate provision.
- Prioritise work to meet conflicting deadlines.
- Use IT applications and databases effectively to deliver administrative tasks.
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and in written format, in relation to work undertaken.
- Oversee the implementation of effective strategies and communication around pupil attendance with a safeguarding concern.
What the school offers its staff
In return we offer:
- A collaborative and supportive team of talented professionals.
- A commitment to professional development opportunities in order to enhance your ability to develop and improve provision.
- The opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children.
- Motivated, friendly and hardworking children.
- A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven
- towards conti35nuously raising standards.
- Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives
- Calm and purposeful learning environments
- Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community
- A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school
- Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust
Further details about the role
Ravensdale Junior School is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified Safeguarding and Pastoral Support Manager, to take a pivotal role as part of our safeguarding team. We warmly welcome applications from those who have experience in this area and are passionate about making a real difference to the lives of children. Applicants should have a good working knowledge of safeguarding and thrive on challenging themselves and others towards continuous improvement.
As part of the pastoral role, you will support pupils to overcome their barriers to learning and develop their potential, both inside and outside of the classroom, effecting positive behavioural change through intervention. You would be joining a team of committed and supportive professionals and the school can offer a breadth of opportunity to develop and enhance your skills through training and support.
We are a school who pride itself on belonging and kindness and keeping children at the heart. We work together as a team to ensure children and staff have the best experience.
Commitment to safeguarding
Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education
All school roles are classed as regulated activity and as such, it is an offence to apply to for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children
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About Ravensdale Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 352 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ravensdale Junior School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- w.evans@ravensdalej.derby.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01332 512373
Ours is a happy school where children are well cared for, encouraged and supported to achieve their best and develop the skills necessary to be independent learners. Our ethos is underpinned by our RAVENS attitudes; you and your children will quickly become familiar with these!
Our School Aims
At Ravensdale Junior School, we aim to:
• Provide an atmosphere in which children feel happy and secure where there is a strong and consistent expectation of good behaviour, positive attitude, mutual respect, trust and honesty,
• Enable each individual child to develop the life-long skills necessary for an ever changing world and the positive attitude to allow their full potential to be reached,
• Continually develop an increasingly enriched and exciting curriculum within an inclusive learning community,
• Embrace and value contributions made by our children, promoting self-esteem and enabling them to develop into respected members of society,
• Develop meaningful partnerships with parents/carers and other members of our community.
• Personalise learning to cater for individual needs and styles, helping to develop independence, co-operation and lively, enquiring minds,
• Enable children to acquire moral values and respect for others’ culture, background and religious beliefs
All staff at Ravensdale are committed to helping pupils achieve high educational standards within a caring and positive environment. We regularly review all material relating to the curriculum to ensure equal educational experiences for both girls and boys and children from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Arranging a visit to Ravensdale Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email w.evans@ravensdalej.derby.sch.uk.
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