Overview

Are you passionate about enabling every child and their family achieving their very best by overcoming barriers?

Do you want to be part of a learning community that is bigger than one school?

Are you ambitious to develop your career with access to high quality CPD opportunities?

If your answer to these questions is YES, then Bearbrook Combined School would be delighted to hear from you…

Term time only

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 3 Scale 16-20 pro rata

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 25 hours a week: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 1.30pm

Closing date: 17/06/2023 00:00

Interviews to be held: Applications will be considered upon arrival and interviews arranged accordingly.

About us

Bearbrook Combined School is a vibrant, friendly, and exciting school at the heart of a diverse community in Aylesbury. Our school’s vision is to empower all to achieve and flourish on their journey to outstanding. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious team player to make a real difference to our children’s and their family’s lives!

A member of staff who joined us recently said “Bearbrook is one of the friendliest schools I have ever worked in. Both the staff and the children made me feel so welcome. From the day I started I was made to feel part of a team”.

We work hard to ensure that Bearbrook Pre-school and school is a vibrant, exciting learning community, where children enjoy their education and make good progress in a stimulating environment. We are committed to developing the whole child through their creativity and diversity. Our aim is for children to grow into confident, happy, independent, lifelong learners who can function as successful members of the community. In order to achieve this, we have high expectations with regard to attitudes to learning and behaviour.

In joining the Great Learners Trust, you will benefit from being a part of a dynamic and forward-thinking Multi-Academy Trust. We pride ourselves on offering high quality CPD opportunities and support structures to enable rapid career development.

www.bearbrookschool.co.uk

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic and inspirational family support officer with the capacity to grow and develop in this new role.

Experience is not necessary as we are looking for team players who understand the importance of building positive relationships with pupils and their family members in order to maximise their potential.

The role is a new role within our school and it’s main purpose is to work closely with parents and carers to help overcome pupils’ barriers to learning, whether inside or outside school.

This will involve maintaining regular communication, putting interventions in place, monitoring attendance and liaising with relevant staff and professionals to ensure parents and carers are consistently engaged in pupils’ development and progress.

About you

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on 01296 488331.

Please send completed application forms to the email address: office@bcsglt.co.uk

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Bearbrook Combined School and Pre-School is committed to safeguarding its pupils. The selected candidate will be required to provide suitable references and undergo an Enhanced Disclosure (DBS) check before taking up the post.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.