Welfare & Safeguarding Practitioner

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Plymouth, United Kingdom Greenshaw Learning Trust Full time

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**Welfare & Safeguarding Practitioner**:

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- 2300 - Stoke Damerel Community College

19/02/2024
- Welfare & Safeguarding Practitioner

The job requirements are detailed below.

Job details

**Salary**

Salary calculated in line with NJC Grade C pay scale, points 5 - 7 £23,500 - £24,293 fte, per annum Actual salary: £19,077 - £19.720 per annum

**Contractual hours**

34

**Basis**

Part Time

**Job type**

Support Staff - Educational

**Location**

Plymouth

**Job category**

Support Role - Education/Behavioural Support

**Date posted**

05/02/2024

**Job reference**

GST-R0029

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Job overview

We are looking for a Safeguarding and Welfare Practitioner to join our staff team at Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott College Campus.
- This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the campus and further contribute to the life chances of young people in the school and across the Trust.
- Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical and Healthcare College is a vibrant and aspirational community of teachers and learners. We have an excellent teaching and support staff team who demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, within and beyond our curriculum.
- Our Campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make them most of the opportunities they are given.
- Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are _‘Always Learning’_.
- Job Purpose:

- To support the DDSL and Pastoral Leaders to implement and uphold the schools safeguarding policy and procedures.
- The post-holder will provide a high standard of welfare support for young people and families to support them to engage in lessons at school.
- You must be able to establish excellent relationships with pupils, parents and colleagues, and work well within a team.
- Main responsibilities:

- To support at risk or vulnerable students and work with selected groups of students who have barriers to learning and initiate suitable interventions.
- To provide pastoral support and guidance for students.
- Arrange meetings with parents/carers and other colleagues, to provide relevant information, offer support and seek ways in which the school can help in improving individual attendance and engagement in learning, including making and attending appointments during relevant parents’ evenings.
- Provide outreach support to students and families to support integration back into school following long term absence
- To monitor students reduced timetables to support full integration
- To collect from home and support students that struggle to attend examinations
- To visit students on Alternative Provision to ensure adequate systems are in place and to act as the point of communication for provider, student, parent and school
- To organise and participate in the delivery of evening Family Support Programmes
- Have a visible presence around school, during breaks and lunchtimes and in tutor groups
- To liaise with parents/carers, staff, students and other stakeholders as needed in a timely and professional manner in relation to all aspects of students’ pastoral care.
- To ensure students feel safe in school and follow school safeguarding policies and processes required.
- To support students in developing individual welfare plans and disseminate these amongst staff.
- Liaise with the Attendance Officer regarding communication over attendance with students and support interventions to support students with attendance below the school target.
- Support multi-agency meetings and TAMS for young people as needed.
- You will need:

- GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent at least level 4
- Experience of working with young people in a paid or voluntary setting
- Ability to relate well to children and adults
- Ability to work in a team and as an individual
- Good level of literacy
- Understanding of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation
- Experience of working in a customer facing environment providing general administrative support
- What’s in it for you:

- Professional development and career progressio


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