Job Ref: C292/0724
Salary: Scale 5 (SCP 12-17) £26,421 – £28,770
Hours: Annualised hours, equivalent to 45 hours per term time week. To provide weekend cover for absence on occasions.
Shift Pattern
07:00 – 09:00 Monday to Friday
15:00 – 23:00 Monday to Thursday
14:00 – 18:00 on Friday
Flexibility in Hours available, by mutual agreement.
Sleep ins: Between 1-3 sleep ins per week – £40.76 each (to be discussed).
INTERVIEWS WILL TAKE PLACE ON:
To be confirmed
Purpose of the Job:
To manage a collaborative Care team to provide a high standard of care to children and young people with a vision impairment. To foster a positive environment for the delivery of the waking day curriculum and to ensure high quality documentation within Care. To supervise and support staff to work with students in a proficient and sensitive manner that will enhance both their academic and social development.
BENEFITS OF WORKING AT NEW COLLEGE WORCESTER
New College Worcester is set in extensive grounds which overlook the Malvern Hills. As well as an inspiring and rewarding place to work alongside our exceptional students, all staff have the opportunity to benefit from the following:
- Free use of the College swimming pool,
- Free use of the state-of-the-art fitness facilities in our multigymFit4Purpose,
- Continual professional development and training opportunities,
- Free on-site parking,
- Great value on-site catering facilities,
- Excellent pension scheme,
- Staff wellbeing package.
Residential Special School
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
- To undertake and successfully complete a Level 3 qualification (Children & Young People / Residential with two years of appointment (if this is or equivalent not already held).
- Applicants must be at least 25 years old. This is in keeping with NCW policy.
Full details for this role can be down loaded from NCW website (www.ncw.co.uk), or contact [email protected] (01905 763933) for further details. Candidates must complete an NCW application form, CVs will not be accepted.
Main Tasks:
- To work flexibly across the site and the residential houses to manage the delivery of a comprehensive care programme appropriate to the individual students. To safeguard and promote the health and welfare of the students, ensuring that they are cared for and supported in the residential house, by a team of professional Care staff, following the guidelines as laid down by legislation, the current National Minimum Care Standards for Residential Special Schools, professional care practice and NCW’s policies and procedures.
- To line manage the Residential Key Workers setting objectives, monitoring performance, completing regular supervisions and appraisals and ensuring accurate and professional records are kept in accordance with College policies. To collaborate with College and senior Care staff to allocate Key Workers to students, ensuring this aligns with College structures.
- To monitor the care staff rotas and organise staff cover where required in preparation for senior care staff/SLT to sign off.
- To support with the recruitment and induction process for new Care staff. To ensure that all required induction documentation is completed on time.
- To be responsible for quality assuring Care plans, Risk Assessments, Key working and Support Session notes and other paperwork as may be directed to a high standard in accordance with published quality assurance deadlines. To highlight issues to senior Care management.
- To be responsible for Risk Assessments for all Activities and to write the Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans for each student.
- To attend annual reviews and other interim reviews for students and other student related meetings as may be required.
- To work in collaboration with College to manage the delivery of the waking day curriculum and to liaise with education staff over student progress. The waking day curriculum includes developing students’ independent living skills, involving amongst others: skills training in personal hygiene, nutrition and self-catering, general skills required in managing money and personal safety. It also includes support with mobility, homework and developing effective morning and evening routines.
- To manage, co-ordinate and participate in the delivery of activities both on and off the College campus in evenings and weekends and to provide and encourage access to a range of leisure pursuits and to new opportunities beyond the NCW community.
- To plan and deliver structured support sessions for students that facilitate their social development, build independence and promote wellbeing.
- To liaise with Care and Education staff, other College staff, parents and external partners and agencies in a professional manner in order to achieve a comprehensive approach to the students’ development. To take responsibility for creating and developing strong links between home and College and maintain contact with parents through face to face or online meetings, email and telephone.
- To take responsibility for the safeguarding of students and to oversee Care staff, ensuring any concerns are reported promptly and accurately via the appropriate College channels and systems. To ensure that staff respond in a timely manner to actions required.
- To support the student in coming to terms with the effect of vision and other impairments and to manage Care staff to be able to effectively achieve this outcome. To ensure trusting relationships are developed between them, their staff and students, whilst respecting professional boundaries.
- To manage staff to maintain high quality student behaviour, to deal appropriately with challenging behaviour and to administer and document rewards and sanctions as appropriate and in accordance with College policies.
- With appropriate training, to administer medication and first aid to students, ensuring all processes are followed and recorded accurately and safely. To provide personal or intimate care to students who require this support. To ensure that all staff undertake the same, are fully up to date with all relevant training and to track and monitor staff CPD.
- To manage the residential houses, including taking responsibility for building security, fire practices and fire safety checks and basic house maintenance tasks. To ensure the Care staff support the team of cleaners to maintain a clean and homely environment.
- To plan, conduct and minute staff meetings as required and other meetings as requested.
- To carry out regular supervision sessions and an annual appraisal with staff and to attend the same themselves with the Deputy Head of Care. To be open to self-reflection.
- To attend all relevant training sessions as directed and to be willing to undertake continued professional development in support of enhancing the quality-of-Care provision.
- To monitor and track any potential spends within Care under the direction of the senior Care staff.
- To maintain confidentiality on all matters relating to students, staff and the College in line with GDPR.
- To ensure that records are kept in accordance with College requirements and current legislation including GDPR.
- This job description cannot be considered to be exhaustive and other duties not included may arise which you will be expected to fulfil. The additional duties will be determined by circumstances and/or as required by your Line Manager.
- Any other duties commensurate with the nature of the post and under the reasonable direction of the Principal, Head of Care and Deputy Heads of Care
Equal Opportunities Statement:
NCW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is conditional on an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check.
Safeguarding Children:
NCW is fully committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of students at the College. You are responsible for adhering to the College’s policies on Child Protection and for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people you come into contact with.
Annual review:
This job description will be reviewed annually and may be subject to amendment or modification at any time after consultation with the post holder. It is not a comprehensive statement of procedures and tasks but sets out the main expectations of NCW in relation to the post holder’s professional responsibilities and duties.
This document is to be read in the context of NCW Statement of Purpose, NCW Equal Opportunities Statement, and agreed policies of the NCW and the Conditions of Service as outlined in the individual employee’s contract.
Important Information to read prior to applying to work at NCW:
Please note that any offer of employment will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Registration through the DBS and Health clearance which will be arranged by the College.
If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to complete and return a criminal history / suitability self-disclosure prior to interview; any relevant information that you disclose will be discussed with you at interview. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 as a result of the Exceptions Order 1975 as amended in 2020, and therefore all unspent convictions, cautions and bind-overs, and any convictions or adult cautions that would not be filtered, must be declared on the self-disclosure. Please see the Ministry of Justice website for information about the filtering of offences.
By completing an application form, the applicant confirms they are not disqualified from working in regulated activity with children, or subject to sanctions imposed by a regulatory body, eg Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) or Health and Care Professions council (HCPC). NCW will seek references on short-listed candidates, and may approach previous employers for information to verify particular experience or qualification, before interview.
If the applicant is currently working with children, on either a paid or voluntary basis, their current employer will be asked about disciplinary offences relating to their suitability to work with children, including any for which the penalty is time expired (that is where a warning could no longer be taken into account in any new disciplinary hearing for example) and whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns which are founded / upheld. If the applicant is not currently working with children, but has done so in the past, that previous employer will be asked about those issues.
To provide false information is an offence and could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal if the application has been selected, and possible referral to the police.
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