Student Support Officer (Pastoral)
Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, AL5 5FH3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
01/09/2024 or Sooner
Closing date
7 May 2024 at 10am
Date listed
21 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,334.00 - £32,076.00 Annually (FTE) H6-H8 (Dependant on Experience)
Student Support Officer (Pastoral) job summary
We are looking for a Student Support Officer who will be responsible for ensuring outstanding pastoral support is available for all students. The successful candidate will support the engagement and development of young people who exhibit challenging behaviour and/or have Social, Emotional or Mental Health needs. The Student Support Officer (Pastoral) will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive pastoral care and support to students within a specific year group as well as administrative support to the HOY. Working closely with the Head of Key Stage and Head of Year (Pastoral), the Student Support Officer is responsible for fostering a positive and inclusive school environment, addressing the social, emotional, and behavioural needs of students, and promoting their overall well-being, and academic performance in school.
The successful candidate will have:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Empathy, patience, and the ability to build positive relationships with students.
- Knowledge of child development, behaviour management.
- Understanding of relevant safeguarding and child protection policies.
- The ability to work confidentially.
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills, working proactively with initiative and common sense
- Accuracy and checking of work for quality.
- Full training will be provided for the bespoke school information systems such as; Classcharts, CPOMs etc.
If you feel you have the relevant desire, experience and energy and share our vision then we look forward to receiving your application.
Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process, and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.
As part of our selection and appointment process, and in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, we are required to conduct online searches on all candidates in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
At KWS, we understand the value of having a workforce that reflects and represents our multi-ethnic student body from an equality, diversity and inclusivity perspective. We therefore welcome and embrace applications from all backgrounds.
If you share our belief that young people have the right to a transformational educational experience that will enable them to fulfil their potential and realise their ambitions, then we look forward to hearing from you.
Please note that we will not consider applications submitted via recruitment agencies.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Katherine Warington School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 744 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Katherine Warington School website (opens in new tab)
Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a
further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding
schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).
Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk
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