Senior Lead for Learner Welfare
Deadline is today
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week Monday - Friday. Term time only with possibility for non term-time weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £36,186 and £43,421
What skills and experience we're looking for
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Significant experience in a leadership role within an educational or welfare setting.
- Proven track record as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) or in a similar capacity.
- Experience of managing pastoral care systems and implementing strategies to support learner well-being.
- The ability to work effectively with external agencies and stakeholders to support learners.
- Experience of leading and managing staff teams, with a focus on welfare and pastoral care.
- Comprehensive understanding of statutory requirements related to safeguarding and child protection.
- An understanding of SEND, specifically but not exclusively SEMH, and the annual review process as set out in the SEND Code of Practice.
- Strong knowledge of mental health issues affecting young people and strategies to support them.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with learners, staff, parents, and external partners.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work under pressure
- Ability to analyse data and use it to inform decision-making and drive improvements.
- Have the patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
- Be flexible and open to change.
What the school offers its staff
- 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
Are you a dynamic practitioner with the determination and compassion to strategically lead a team committed to improving the life chances and outcomes for all the learners here at Woodlands?
Would you class yourself as a compassionate, collaborative and ambitious practitioner with the relentless 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” Developing our offer of personalised support to ensure we meet all the differing needs of our learners is fundamental to the progress we want to make. This is why we have shaped this role to be the strategic lead this transformational development.
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 learners in your care. You will have a strong sense of fairness and know that you are a catalyst to change learner’s lives
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.
Every one of us plays a key role in supporting our learners to be the best they can be and live the best lives they can..
Does this sound like you?
No SEMH experience is necessary, but a desire to learn and develop is essential.
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
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About Woodlands School
- School type
- Academy, ages 9 to 16
- School size
- 55 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Woodlands School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lisa.dugmore@wdl.mmat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01939232372
Woodlands is a special school for pupils who have social, emotional and mental health needs. We are part of the Marches Academy Trust, based in the beautiful county of Shropshire
Arranging a visit to Woodlands School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lisa.dugmore@wdl.mmat.co.uk.
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