Stony Dean School in Amersham is recruiting a Family and Student Support Worker who is also Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead. The post works with families and pupils to improve attendance and emotional wellbeing, focusing on EBSNA pupils and those with medical needs, and helps families overcome barriers to learning. The DDSL role supports the DSL in day-to-day safeguarding within a wider team, including home visits and holiday Strategy meeting cover. Enhanced DBS and prohibition order checks apply, and visa sponsorship is not available.
What the job involves
- Improve attendance for EBSNA pupils and those with medical needs through tailored solutions
- Build relationships with families of low-attending pupils, including home visits and meetings at home, online or in school
- Ensure long-term absent pupils receive education personalised to their circumstances
- Help families access support, including benefit forms and official documents, and signpost them to services
- Work with external agencies to support families
- Support the DSL with day-to-day safeguarding and work with key staff to identify and resolve concerns
- Keep accurate safeguarding and visit records on CPOMS and write referrals, MARFs and Section 17 and 47 reports
- Attend Strategy, child protection, Child In Need and professionals meetings
- Provide emergency Strategy meeting cover on a rota during school holidays
- Support vulnerable pupils and those with a social worker, including individual learning at school and at home
- Run workshops and training events for families and external agencies
- Maintain confidentiality and follow child protection, data protection and health and safety policies
What’s required
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
- Prohibition Order check
- Social media checks
- Medical clearance
- Declaration of unspent convictions and conditional cautions, and unprotected spent convictions and adult cautions
Other
- Satisfactory references
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
