Job Description
AIMS AND PURPOSE OF THE POST:
1. To provide high quality and responsive health, welfare and safeguarding services for all students.
2. To support College attendance, retention and achievement strategies by providing high quality pro-active welfare and wellbeing support to individual students and groups.
3. To work directly with college departments to ensure learners are fully supported, with any barriers to learning dealt with promptly and effectively.
4. To liaise with external agencies to ensure students receive the best possible support in order for them to achieve to their full potential.
5. Contribute to and co-ordinate specialist support where required, including attending Looked After Children reviews, Personal Education Plans, Strategy Meetings and Child in Need plans.
6. To assist the Head of Student Support and Wellbeing in the delivery of support services across College.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
7. To act as the first response Safeguarding contact, operating rapid response to all safeguarding concerns and maintaining effective cover across the college.
8. To maintain and record accurate information using the appropriate college systems i.e. ProMonitor, UnitE etc.
9. To assist in the promotion and raising awareness of safeguarding, prevent and wellbeing support and procedures for students.
10. To liaise with outside agencies as appropriate in the protection of vulnerable young people and adults and promote and maintain links with network agencies.
11. To carry out thorough risk assessments and checks on any learners who disclose criminal convictions.
12. To create safety plans, where appropriate, for students.
13. To provide initial support and advice to individuals identified as being “at risk”.
14. To provide, on a one to one and group basis, high quality wellbeing themed interventions that encourage learners to engage to support future success and progression.
15. To measure the impact of support to evaluate effectiveness, inform continual development and target student issues.
16. To understand barriers to learning and support learners to overcome these by developing innovative practice and delivering a consistently outstanding service.
17. To maintain accurate records of all interventions and student information on the safeguarding database.
18. To manage a flexible caseload of students, prioritising those with complex needs and safeguarding concerns.
19. To be a key member of the College Safeguarding Team.
20. To attend regular caseload reviews to ensure student needs are being met.
21. To assist in activities such as recruitment events, enrolment activities and assessment of support needs.
22. To produce statistics to regularly evaluate the impact of services, improve service standards and contribute to the College’s quality processes.
23. To actively publicise support services to all students and staff.
24. To undertake duties as a First Aider, Fire Marshal
GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
25. To commit to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
26. To take direct responsibility for own continuous professional development.
27. To participate in the College’s Performance Management Scheme.
28. To undertake such other duties as are commensurate with the grade and purpose of the post.
29. To comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Regulations. To take reasonable care for the health and safety of him/herself and for others affected by his/her work and to co-operate with the employer in ensuring that the Health and Safety responsibilities are carried out.
30. To comply with the requirements of College Equality and Diversity policy.
31. To undertake such other duties as are commensurate with the grade and purpose of the post.
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
The appointment is subject to the Conditions of Service for Business Support Staff.
All successful applicants will undergo the following checks:
32. Enhanced DBS
33. 2 x References, one of which must be your current or most recent employer
34. Qualification validation check
35. Medical check
SALARY
The salary range for this post is from £24,675 - £26,821 per annum pro rata. Your starting salary will be dependent upon your qualifications and experience. Once you have successfully passed your probationary period, your salary will increase within the salary band on an annual incremental basis, until you reach the top of the salary scale.
HOURS OF WORK
The hours of work will be based on 25 hours per week x 40 weeks (term time only).
ANNUAL LEAVE
As this is a term time only appointment you will receive a payment in lieu of holiday which is in addition to your salary. You will also be paid for any Statutory Bank Holidays and concessionary days, which fall within your working week.
PENSION SCHEME
The College operates an occupational pension scheme, namely the ‘Local Government Pension Scheme’.
PROBATIONARY PERIOD
All newly appointed staff have to serve a 6 month probationary period. During the probationary period you will have to attend the corporate staff induction day, a Teaching and Learning Induction session if you deliver learning and additional mandatory courses on: Equality & Diversity session, Prevent, Safeguarding Training session and Health & safety training session. Failure to attend these will prevent you from successfully completing your probation.
FIRST AID & FIRE MARSHALL
As defined in the person specification of the job description, those staff with these responsibilities are required to undertake first aid and or fire marshal duties across the College, when called upon to do so. Staff must ensure they are up to date with the relevant training.
REFERENCES
Please note that without 2 satisfactory references being received before the end of the probationary period, new staff will not be able to successfully pass their probationary.
LOCATION
The successful applicant will be based at Bromsgrove but may be required to work across all campuses.
MEDICAL
The successful applicant will be required to satisfy the Medical Officer as to his/her fitness to carry out the duties of the post.
VALIDATION OF QUALIFICATIONS
The College will undertake qualification validation by writing to the appropriate educational institute. Only those qualifications which are essential for the post will be followed up.
CONTRACTUAL REQUIREMENT TO OBTAIN A QUALIFICATION
If you are required to obtain a qualification as a contractual requirement, the College reviews its CPD budget on an annual basis regarding availability of funds and cannot therefore guarantee that newly appointed staff will receive either part or full funding for the course fees. However, student loan facilities are available.
MATHS AND ENGLISH
All staff are required to have a minimum level 2 qualification in both English and Maths. If you are not already in receipt of one or both of these qualifications, you will be expected to obtain it (them) during your employment at the College.
SAFEGUARDING
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All newly appointed staff will be required to undertake safeguarding training during their probationary period.
Heart of Worcestershire College adheres to the Department of Education’s guidance on ‘Keeping children safe in Education’. As part of your induction, you will be required to read and understand part 1 of this document.
DISCLOSURE & BARRING CHECK
All successful applicants will be required to complete and pay for a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The costs of this check will be deducted from the applicant’s first salary payment from the College. The College adheres to the DBS Code of Practice and has policies covering the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Storage, Handling, Use, Retention and Disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure Information. Copies of these are available on request.
RECRUITMENT OF EX-OFFENDERS
The College is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offending background.
As an organisation we use the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) to assess the suitability of all prospective appointments. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed.
Applicants/employees are required to declare any pending criminal prosecutions they may have as well as any spent criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings as defined under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. The only exception to this requirement is that applicants/employees do not need to disclose any ‘protected’ cautions, or convictions as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013.
Please read the ‘Guidance Note to applicants on disclosing information about cautions and convictions in their application’ document before you complete your application form.
Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of any offences.
TRAINING
All successful applicants will be required to undertake all mandatory training and update sessions and any appropriate training and development as required, including Health and Safety.
SMOKING POLICY
HoW College is a Smoke Free environment from the effects of direct/indirect contact with smoking, including using the following:
36. Cigarettes
37. E-cigarettes
38. Vaporisers
39. Pipe smoking
40. Cigars
41. And all other associated smoking products