About the role
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.
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