37 Full time, Childcare jobs in Aldridge, Walsall

We are seeking a proactive individual who will take a professional and customer focused approach based upon mutual respect to manage attendance by encouraging inclusion, offering pastoral opportunities and provide support to families within our school., You'll be working to safeguard and support the education and welfare of schools children and young people with a range of special educational need - promoting inclusion and integration to attend lessons and activities in school, using flexible and imaginative approaches provide pastoral support and mentoring to raise self-esteem, behaviour and understanding, building constructive relationships with families and other agencies and professionals to achieve positive outcomes. At Two Rivers High School you will get all the support you need from our Senior Leadership Team, Safeguarding, Teaching and other professionals and have opportunities for additional training to help you to build a rewarding career., Support for School Attendance and Families

• Liaison with safeguarding team and office attendance administrator to oversee outstanding absence marks, and where necessary make home visits to ascertain welfare and pupil whereabouts.
• To check accuracy of attendance codes in a timely manner each morning.
• To provide Early Help to families of concern, via home visits and meetings within school and where necessary mediate between families and school. Ensure that these interventions are recorded accurately and timely.
• To develop attendance action plans and early help plans, which will be agreed and shared with families.
• To send initial attendance letters of concern as appropriate.
• To signpost parents to other services as required.
• Have daily oversight of attendance data and trends to provide strategic responses/ feedback.
• To identify and reduce the number of late attendances.
• To support whole school attendance initiatives and those defined as vulnerable.
• To support with preparing paperwork for referrals to the local authority.
• To support in Educational Consultation Meetings and to provide witness statements of chronological support
Support to Pupils
• To attend weekly pastoral meetings to discuss pupils with attendance concerns and in liaison with the pastoral team contribute to the development of inclusion strategies to improve attendance.
• Support the integration of students who have joined the school under difficult circumstances
• Provide academic and pastoral mentoring for specific students with poor attendance, identified by the strategic attendance lead.
• Provide support for emotional based school avoiders, this may include work with the home.
• To identify and provide intervention to students who a persistently not attending lessons.
• Organise, when appropriate, or support extra-curricular activities for disaffected Provide lunchtime opportunities for pupils as required.
• To work with vulnerable groups of students within school (e.g. student carers, 'Looked After' students, students in crisis) and 1:1 students as directed.
• To improve the behaviour and well-being of individual students by developing approaches based on our existing good practice.
• To undertake flexible and imaginative approaches in offering support to children, their families and carers.
We can offer:
• A welcoming, stimulating and supportive environment
• A focus on staff well-being with staff social events and well-being counsellor
• A well established and supportive induction programme for all staff at all levels
• Continuing Professional Development
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Excellent resources, programs and technology to support learning in school
• A highly professional team who would welcome you on board
• A large and expanding school with high standards and an ambitious desire to better the lives of our pupils and impact further on our wider community.