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Welfare & Support Officer (with responsibilities for Safeguarding, attendance and pastoral matters)
· Starting salary: Scale 7 point 19 (FTE £25,481.00)
· Full time 28.75 Hours per week term time only (plus 1 week during the school holidays and additional Inset days as required).
· 8.30am to 3.15pm Monday - Friday (with an hour for a lunch break)
· Please note the job may require you to work additional hours.
St Mary's are seeking to appoint an Education Welfare, Safeguarding and Support Officer (with responsibilities for Attendance and punctuality) to support our school and its students. The successful candidate will have proven experience of working with children in an education, health or social care environment and have excellent working knowledge of child protection & safeguarding policies.
They will be required to implement successful strategies to encourage, enable and where necessary enforce attendance and improve persistent absences.
The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills and will be required to liaise with outside agencies and work closely with student's families or carers.
Please see the Job Description & Person Specification for further information.
Please contact Sonya on 01799 523384 from Monday 22nd February for further information, the closing date for this vacancy is Thursday 25th February 2021 at 4pm.
Interviews to be held: Tuesday 2nd March, Wednesday 3rd March and Thursday 4th March
This vacancy is to start on Monday 8th March (or as soon as possible thereafter)
Information about the School
"Aspiring for Excellence in a Christian Learning Environment"
Established in 1845, St. Mary's is a welcoming 1 form entry Church school with a caring ethos. We are situated in the centre of Saffron Walden, a thriving Essex market town close to the Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Suffolk borders and within easy travelling distance of both Cambridge and London. We enjoy excellent facilities, occupying a large and attractive site which also accommodates our Church Pre-school and an independent Before/After-school club.