TEAM Worker - Term Time

Five Acre Wood School, Maidstone

• Ref:KCC886-7056-597S
• Posted:09/05/2024
• Pay:£23,246.04 inc Five Acre Wood Allowance
• Start Date:TBC
• App Close Date:23/05/2024 at 10:00
• Interviews:TBC

Advert

We are looking to appoint a TEAM Worker to join our school for 37 hours per week, 8am – 4pm, Monday to Friday, term time only including INSET days. This position is available at the Loose site.

The candidate must be highly organised, a good team player, proactive, have excellent communication and ICT skills with a high standard of literacy and clear, concise hand writing.  In addition, the candidate must also have a high regard for confidentiality, be reliable, have experience with a good understanding of Microsoft office packages, good typing skills and be confident working with a wide range of professionals.

Job Purpose:

To provide support, information and education service to parents of children attending the school and investigate concerns raised by parents, pupils and teachers as agreed by the Headteacher. To work on preventative and intervention activities.

Main Duties:

• Establish and foster good relationships with parents / carers of children at the school. Encourage parental involvement in the school and its activities.
• Support parents when their child is finding it difficult to access school.
• Liaise with members of school staff regarding families / children as necessary and with parent / carer consent.
• Attend support and staff meetings to continue own professional training and development, as targeted through appraisal process.
• Attend Annual Reviews of pupils that TEAM are involved with or have supported their parents in any way.
• Contribute to the review and implement any actions according to the action plan.
• Carry out home visits in a TEAM capacity i.e. discuss with parents how they can help them to liaise with staff teams/ therapy team/ specialist teachers/ school nurse/social workers to provide the best strategy or solution to ensure consistency for the pupil.
• Where requested, to represent the school at PEP and CHIN meetings. To prepare and contribute as appropriate, cascade information to appropriate personnel and implement actions as necessary. To ensure that records of these meetings are maintained.

Please see job description for a full list of duties.

Information about the school

Five Acre Wood is a successful outward looking and expanding Special School based over 4 sites in and around Maidstone, Kent. We are one of the largest special schools in the country with over 800 pupils on roll aged 2-19 years with profound, severe and complex needs.

Our ‘Outstanding’ school will continue to expand and we are looking for people with a positive approach to join us who share our vision of ‘Only the best will do’ for all our students and staff. We are a Teaching School and part of a collaborative alliance with other special schools. We have been awarded The Schools Wellbeing Award for pupils and staff which demonstrates we really value our people and want to work with them to fulfil their career ambitions.

In addition to your salary, FAW allowance and pension benefits, we have excellent additional staff benefits including:

Confidential staff counselling service A wellbeing app and platform A range of staff social and well-being events Annual flu vaccinations

Sometimes words cannot explain how something really is, we would encourage you to view the links below:

We hold an annual music festival for our pupils, it gives them the opportunity experience something they may not ordinarily be able to access. You can see it here.

Woodstock 2023 – Woodstock 2023 Festival at Five Acre Wood School - YouTube

Woodstock 2022 - Woodstock 2022 Festival at Five Acre Wood Schools - YouTube

Woodstock 2019 - Five Acre Wood School's "Woodstock 2019" - Amazing Festival in a Day! (Longer Film) - YouTube

We produced our own songs and music videos, you can watch them here: -

Beautiful – Five Acre Wood School featuring Taryn Charles - Youtube

Five Acre Wood School Featuring Jack Rose - Hall Of Fame - YouTube

Don’t Give Up – Nathan Grisdale and Five Acre Wood School - YouTube

We look forward to hearing from you.

Five Acre Wood is committed to the safeguarding of all its pupils, you will therefore be subject to an enhanced disclosure process. As part of our responsibility for safeguarding, in addition to the Kent policy of one employment and one personal reference, the school will request additional employment references. The school will also, as outlined in Keeping children Safe in Education 2022, complete an online search for shortlisted candidates.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Nicola Devereux
• Address:Boughton Lane, Maidstone , Kent, ME15 9QF
• Telephone: (01622) 743925
• Email: hr@five-acre.kent.sch.uk

Fax: 01622 744828

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• TEAM Worker Job Description