This role offers the opportunity for the successful candidate to offer early pastoral, behavioural, EAL and SEND interventions, preventative support, guidance and advice to improve outcomes for children, young people and families within a school context, through working in partnership with pupils, parents, carers and other agencies. They should have good communication skills and a passion to support children and their families.
Overall Purpose
- To offer early pastoral, behavioural, EAL and SEND interventions, preventative support, guidance and advice to improve outcomes for children, young people and families within a school context, through working in partnership with pupils, parents, carers and other agencies.
- To support good attendance at school from all pupils.
- To support new pupils and families to the school (in-year transfers) to feel welcome and understand the school’s systems and processes, especially those families where English is an additional language.
- To contribute to the SEND and safeguarding assessment processes ensuring the voice of children, parents and carers are heard, working closely with Lead Professionals.
- To support the work of the Inclusion and Safeguarding teams as directed by the SENDCO and Designated Safeguarding Lead.
- There may also be the opportunity to pick up extra hours as a Teaching Assistant for the right candidate; please indicate on your application form if this is something you may be interested in so we can discuss this further at interview.
General Duties
- Lead small groups of pupils or individual pupil intervention sessions. These could be linked to a pastoral, behavioural, EAL or SEND need.
- Provide ELSA interventions for individual or small groups of pupils as directed by the SENDCO.
- Plan, resource and lead Nurture sessions for small groups of pupils as identified by the SENDCO. Complete all relevant assessments and paperwork for individuals at Nurture.
- Record progress towards targets, including EHCP targets for all pupils at Nurture.
- Feedback to parents, class teacher, headteacher and SENDCO on pupil’s progress in Nurture as needed.
- Liaise with visiting professionals from outside agencies to support external interventions.
- Build good relationships with families to create a partnership between home and school eg. supporting good and punctual attendance, being a presence at drop off and pick up times, communicating directly with parents as required.
- Talk to pupils on a 1-1 basis to gather their views ahead of SEND and safeguarding assessments.
- Support children with early signs of social, emotional, health or behavioural issues, and work with them, their parents, school staff and other support agencies to address problems which may prevent engagement with school and learning.
- At the request of parents and the school to talk to children experiencing difficulties and convey the voice of the child to parents and school staff.
- Keep records and all documentations pertaining to meetings/contact with children and young people and their families, and conduct reviews and assessment of the effectiveness of the work being carried out.
- Monitor the success of interventions for families and young people.
- Attend supervision and training when required and develop knowledge and skills to fulfil the overall purpose and principles for the role.
- Carry out other duties and responsibilities with due regard to the policies of the school and the MAT such as child protection, health and safety, equal opportunities, confidentiality, data protection etc.
Safeguarding Responsibilities
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection.
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection.
- Report all concerns to an appropriate person.
- Be aware of who is the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead.
- To support the school’s policy and procedure for safeguarding children.
Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the Pastoral and Nurture Lead role, each individual task will not be identified. It is expected that all colleagues will endeavour to deliver any tasks identified as reasonable by their Headteacher.