School Social Worker

Gospel Oak School, Tipton, West Midlands, DY4 0BZ

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st January 2025

• Closing date

  26 November 2024 at 10am

• Date listed

  22 October 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: £35,407.73 - £37,162.18 Annually (Actual) Scale PO1 Point 29-31

School Social Worker job summary

The successful candidate will:

• Embody the values, vision and ethos of the Central Region Schools Trust and assist the Principal in delivering policy which will ensure high quality and successful outcomes.
• Support the monitoring, evaluation and continuous review of the quality and effectiveness within the school.
• Support the pastoral and academic work across the school.
• Work in partnership with teaching and other educational support staff within the school as well as the student's families.
• Ensure that staff are trained well to understand safeguarding policies, systems, and processes.
• Liaise and embed direct working relationships with external agencies.
• Ensure that pupils, staff, and parents know how to identify and report a safeguarding concern.
• Ensure that Gospel Oak School develops pupils’ confidence, resilience, and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally healthy.
• Ensure that pupils recognise online and offline risks to their wellbeing.
• Act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, providing high level support to the Designated Safeguarding Lead.

You will be joining a group of 13 successful schools serving approximately 7000 children from nursery through to 18 years of age as part of the Central Regions Schools Trust, founded by the RSA. The school is highly aspirational, boasting fantastic facilities for both students and staff.

Job Description

Main Duties will include:

• Practice the full range of social work values, knowledge and skills required to improve the lives of Children in Need (CIN) and their families.
• Work in partnership with children, parents and carers, education, health, and other agencies/professionals supporting children and young people to provide effective support that improves outcomes. This may include assessments, Child In Need, safeguarding, Children In Our Care, young people going through transition, Public Law Proceedings and Mental Capacity Act Proceedings.
• Act as the lead professional in statutory cases that require a qualified social worker, including child protection, care proceedings and looked after children’s cases if appropriate.
• Ensure the effective and efficient use of available resources in support of the well-being, development, and progress of children.
• Identify children and their families in need who may also need protection and effectively safeguard them.
• Assess the needs of children, parents, carers, and families and determine an appropriate level of intervention and service provision, including packages of support for families.
• Provide information to students and parents about services available within the community.
• Responsible for undertaking visits to children and parents and carers; undertaking and being a part of reviews of plans, meet needs and promote best possible outcomes for the child and their family.
• Ensure all children for who you are responsible have a clear care plan to promote their development, well-being, outcomes and protect them from harm.
• Contribute to Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP) reviews and providing advice as appropriate and undertake direct work and interventions with children and their families and carers as identified in the Child's Plan.
• Present and be accountable for your work with children and parents, carers, and families, in relation to quality assurance, audit and inspection processes.
• Take responsibility for continued professional development through training and team and service meetings/briefings and keep knowledge of legislation, research, practice developments and procedures updated to work effectively with children, parents, carers, and families.
• Offer support and education for school staff to help them improve their understanding of the cultural, societal, economical, or other factors that can impact students’ education and behavioural tendencies.
• Apply knowledge, skills, and expertise to support local and national initiatives to raise educational standards.

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. Staff will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description. This job description will be reviewed annually and the Principal reserves the right to alter the content of this job description, after consultation with the post-holder, to reflect changes to the job or services provided, without altering the general character or level of responsibility.

All staff are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the safety and welfare of children and young adults.

Next steps

If you are excited by this role and believe you have the vision and values to fulfil this challenge, then please contact the HR department on GOSHR@gospeloakschool.co.uk or by calling us on 0121 556 1351.

A visit to the School and an informal chat with a member of the Senior Leadership Team is welcomed and encouraged prior to making your application.

Closing date: Tuesday 26th November @ 10am.

Want to know more about Gospel Oak School?

Please visit our website www.gospeloakschool.co.uk, the Central Region Schools Trust website www.centralregionschoolstrust.co.uk and don’t forget to take a look at our promotional video.

The Central Region Schools Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All our posts are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, 2 work references and other employment checks.

Commitment to safeguarding

Central Region Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All our posts are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, 2 work references and other employment checks.

Applying for the job

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About Gospel Oak School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1217 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Gospel Oak School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gospel-oak-school (opens in new tab)

Gospel Oak School, formerly the RSA Academy serves the borough of Sandwell, but due to its geographical position students join us from Wolverhampton and Walsall. In 2017 the school joined the Central RSA Academies Trust and has been working closely and collaboratively across the trust to offer greater opportunities for all. Over the last 5 years the trust has grown in size and strength, from September 2021 the trust is now an academy approved sponsor in its own right and the RSA will no longer sponsor the trust, although we will continue to work closely with the RSA. This changing relationship has provided the trust and the school to rebrand ourselves, the trust will now be known as Central Region Schools Trust and the school; Gospel Oak School.

The rebrand for the school has allowed us to reflect on the true heritage of the local community. The school is based in Gospel Oak and as a community we are very proud of our Black Country heritage, it is for this reason our new branding reflects the colours of the Black Country along with symbolic representation of the area, with the narrowboat which reflects the locality of the Gospel Oak canal basin, the oak tree for when the parish was so large the parishioners prayed under it once a month and the Black Country links to industry within the area.

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