Senior Advisory Teacher (Bi Borough Children In Need)
About Us:
Your energy and expertise will push our CIN provision forward
In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and local businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective and efficient. Rated as outstanding by Ofsted, we are committed to improving the life chances of children across Kensington & Chelsea and the neighbouring borough of Westminster. This includes imaginative, high-quality educational provision for Children in Need (CIN).
The Role:
Reporting to our Bi-Borough Virtual School Head, you will help to promote educational progress and achievement for Children in Need. Your particular focus will be on bringing the CIN education activities of the two boroughs together, utilising the shared knowledge and skills of diverse professionals, and ensuring they offer a uniform approach.
Working with school leaders and social workers to maintain vulnerable children in their school placements and ensure they make the most of school life, you will also directly manage more complex cases, particularly adolescents with complex safeguarding concerns. It’s a creative, challenging and forward-thinking role, offering real scope for your ideas as we shape the future of the service.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information
About You:
Reporting to our Bi-Borough Virtual School Head, you will help to promote educational progress and achievement for Children in Need. Your particular focus will be on bringing the CIN education activities of the two boroughs together, utilising the shared knowledge and skills of diverse professionals, and ensuring they offer a uniform approach.
Working with school leaders and social workers to maintain vulnerable children in their school placements and ensure they make the most of school life, you will also directly manage more complex cases, particularly adolescents with complex safeguarding concerns. It’s a creative, challenging and forward-thinking role, offering real scope for your ideas as we shape the future of the service.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.
You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Interview date: Week commencing 13th October 2022
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.