Job Title: Student Pastoral Officer
Location: Derby
Salary: £20,000 – £25,000 per annum DOE
Job Type: Permanent, full-time
The Company:
Juniper are an innovative, flexible and experienced provider in delivering training solutions to individuals and businesses in Wolverhampton and throughout the Midlands. We are listed on the Governments Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers and are rated as GOOD by Ofsted in all areas of provision.
Job Outline & Purpose:
- To safeguard the welfare of all students, preventing radicalisation and promoting British Values.
- To ensure that safeguarding reports are up to date and accurate.
- To ensure the Centre meets targets for student attendance, by ensuring robust interventions are in place and followed that lead to improving attendance and behaviour.
- To be the Centre Safeguarding Lead and ensure procedures followed and staff & students are supported.
- To make referrals to the Counsellor/external agencies in order for students to receive further support.
Safeguarding
- To have an in-depth understanding of Government legislation on Safeguarding and Prevent, including “Keeping Children Safe in Education” and “Working Together to Safeguard Children”.
- Keeping abreast of developments and understanding the latest information on data protection, confidentiality and other legal issues that impact the protection of children, including attending appropriate regular training.
- To maintain and update Juniper’s on-line Safeguarding database, ensuring all records are accurate and up to date.
- To conduct Safeguarding reviews and record updates.
- To participate in meetings with external agencies, where appropriate.
- To signpost & coordinate support from external support agencies.
- Be skilful in monitoring and championing students with a wide range of different abilities and needs including SEND, LAC and Disadvantaged.
Attendance
- To promote a culture of high expectations and achieve student attendance targets set for the Centre.
- To monitor student attendance, and chase absences ensuring that parents/guardians/stakeholders are aware.
- To ensure that each absence is followed up in an appropriate manner, escalating interventions as necessary.
- Holding meetings with parents/guardians/stakeholders and conducting home visits where necessary.
- To participate in week 3 & week 5 meetings during new students’ qualifying period to ensure suitability for the provision.
- To ensure targets are set and documented with individual students.
- To celebrate and recognise those students with excellent attendance.
- To work with staff to promote a whole-centre approach to improving attendance & behaviour.
Information, Advice and Guidance
- Assist and empower students to fulfil their potential by increasing expectations and raising aspirations.
- To know and understand where to access local and national support agencies to ensure all students access to good, quality CEIAG about learning and work to improve their employability potential, achieve personal ambitions and help to their next step.
- To signpost and refer students who need support and document this, as per procedure.
Progression
- To support centre staff in ensuring all students progress to a positive destination.
- Undertake networking & marketing activities, including social media.
- Monitor student’s programme end date to ensure achievement and progression is timely.
- Undertake tracking of students who have left programme and provide on-going support.
- Ensure that Safeguarding cases are closed down in a timely manner once appropriate to do so.
Targets
- To achieve targets to meet contractual/dashboard obligations
As part of our safer recruitment processes, all roles will require: a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, the level of which will be clearly outlined in the job specification; references and identity checks.
All Juniper employees are expected to understand their duties and responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and full training will be provided as part of our onboarding process.
Abilities
- Excellent communicator
- To persuade & influence others and deal with conflict/challenging behaviour
- Highly motivated
- Innovative & solution focused
- To be persistent & tenacious
- To work to targets & deadlines
- To remain positive, with a bubbly, engaging personality
- To develop others
- Excellent organisation & planning skills
- To work on own initiative
- To be a Juniper ambassador
- Able to build a rapport with target group but also communicate professionally with employers/progression sources
Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Student Support Officer, Learning Support, Support Assistant, Learning Support Worker, Learning Guidance Advisor, Learning Support Assistant, Learning Advisor, Learner Support, Guidance Advisor, Support Worker, Learning Assistant will all be considered.
