About Us
Virtual School Advisory Teacher
£, - £, per annum
Permanent
Full Time ( Hours)
Wandsworth, London
Are you adynamic teacher who has extensive experience of working in a Virtual School?
Working as part of Wandsworth Virtual School, you will support the educational outcomes for looked after children and care leavers aged - years. Your role will be to enable a ‘class’ of looked after children up to years old to achieve the very best educational outcomes and high aspirations. This includes supporting the wider network with meeting their statutory responsibilities to ensure that education is prioritised in all care planning.
About the Role
Your role will be crucial to ensure that every learner in their ‘class’ has an up to date, robust and effective Personal Education Plan that targets learning, and progress completed each term.
You will navigate the multi-professional network to ensure barriers to learning and progress are overcome. As a teacher, it will be your responsibility to monitor and track pupil progress and to recommend interventions to enable pupils and students to achieve and succeed. Part of your role will be supporting and equipping the network with skills and experience they need to support our learners, and this will include training to social worker, schools and foster carers.
As looked after children are placed throughout the UK, the role will include travelling to meetings at schools outside London. The role will also include leading and co-facilitating enrichment opportunities that take place after school and occasionally during school holidays and weekends.
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge
1. You will have Qualified Teacher Status and are educated to degree level : or above with recent Key Stage or experience.
2. Have proven knowledge of education systems in schools, assessment frameworks and how to challenge under-achievement.
3. A strong understanding of child development, attachment, trauma and its impact.
4. Clear understanding of the barriers children may experience in accessing their learning.
5. Effective team player with the experience of compiling professional reports for a variety of audiences and ability to meet deadlines.
6. Effective communication and presentation skills and with the ability to develop positive relationships with vulnerable children, young people and a range of professionals.
If you meet the above criteria and have proven experience of raising attainment for vulnerable pupils, including those with special educational needs and English as a second language – we encourage you to apply for this opportunity.
For an informal discussion about the role