School Social Worker

Our School:
Raise Education and Wellbeing school is a trauma informed independent SEMH special school that caters for 11 to 19 year olds (up to 25 if their needs require) with education and healthcare plans in addition we provide a Day 6 service to councils for children that have been permanently excluded, providing them with specialist assessment in order to determine their overall needs. We are a new school, having registered in 2016 and received an Ofsted judgement of Good with Outstanding features, in 2017 & 2022.
It’s in our name to, Raise the Youth, and we place child’s welfare and wellbeing paramount, treating all our students with a person-centred approach, with dignity, compassion and respect. We are a compassionate learning and developmental organisation with a strong team who support one another, and a school which has outstanding features and fully committed towards being outstanding in all areas. We provide a quality education with the freedom to teach, whilst meeting needs and supporting aspirations to encourage learning for life.
Raise Education & Wellbeing School are currently seeking a School Social Worker to join our team.
The successful candidate will:
Provide a School Social work service to promote the safety, welfare, and health and wellbeing of our young people.
Using social work skills and experience and applying a trauma informed and attachment aware approach to ensure that our safeguarding practices and procedures are outstanding across the organisation.
Supporting school policy and processes for improving attendance, managing safeguarding concerns, and promoting young people’s wellbeing.
Supporting the management and leadership team with compliance, implementation and management of the school’s Positive Behaviour and Restorative Discipline Policy, child protection and attendance policy. Contribute to the compliance and quality of the Independent School Standards.
Providing core group support for the delivery of Early Help functions including accountability for leading implementation, monitoring, and development across school, families, and partners.
Identifying needs and implementing agreed programmes that enable children and young people to overcome their barriers to both learning and wellbeing.
Establishing good relationships with the children and young people and follow the Raise the Youth ethos of putting the needs of children and young people first and promoting positive behaviour.
To promote and deliver effective collaborative ‘working together’ with all agencies and organisations to promote the welfare of young people and professionally respond to young people identified needs, vulnerabilities and risks and take timely action to ensure the school safeguard young people and their families.

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Job Description and Person Specification

£33,202

permanent

term time