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Senior Lead for Engagement

Woodlands School, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 5PJ

This job expired on 31 March 2025 – see similar jobs

Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 March 2025

Job details

Job role: Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours / week
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: Associate staff scale - competitive

What skills and experience we're looking for

To be successful, you will demonstrate;

• Proven experience in a similar role within an educational or social care setting, particularly with SEMH learners.

• Strong understanding of the challenges and needs of learners with SEMH.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with families, learners, and external agencies.

• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

• A strong commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

• Demonstrated leadership skills, with experience in managing and supporting staff.

• Experience in developing and implementing strategies to reduce risks such as exclusion, suspension, social isolation, criminal exploitation, and becoming NEET.

• Ability to contribute to strategic planning and school improvement initiatives.

• Proficiency in analysing performance data and presenting findings to stakeholders.

• Experience working with virtual schools and children’s services to support learners with a social worker.

• Ability to demonstrate the impact of engagement initiatives through data and qualitative feedback.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

• Excellent professional learning and support at every stage in your career, with opportunity for continued personal development through our Talent Pathway

• Career development opportunities including funded NPQs

• Excellent resources and facilities

• Significant leadership time on your timetable.

• A core belief in staff wellbeing and work life balance for all, evidenced in policy and practice

• Benefits including funded counselling, physiotherapy and GP and other medical support

• As a school in the Marches Academy Trust teachers have opportunities to engage with staff across the Trust to support and collaborate with peers and colleagues in sharing the expertise across our family of 11 schools.

Further details about the role

Senior Lead for Engagement

Do you have what it takes to provide high teaching, learning and support for our special young people?

Would you class yourself as a compassionate, collaborative and ambitious practitioner with the determination to make a difference?

We want you to join our “Woodlands family” where Ofsted (March 2024) found “staff and pupils get along well and staff want the very best outcomes for pupils”. They described our school as “calm and friendly” where “personalised support is given to those who need it”

This is an exciting time for us as we progress our quality of education to “good” matching all other judgements of “good” in our recent inspection. We are proud of the distance travelled and we want you to join us for the next phase of our journey.

You will be unflappable, have a sense of humour, and be utterly committed to the children in your care. Woodlands is an amazing place to work, and our children need someone who is not afraid to have high expectations of what they can achieve academically and socially and will never let that standard drop. You will have a strong sense of fairness and know that you are a catalyst to change children’s lives.

Does this sound like you?

Associate Staff Scale: Competitive

37 hours per week – term time only, with possible non term-time weeks)

Permanent