Job Description

Term Time only (37 hours per week plus 1 week training and 2 weeks holiday cover)

Number of Jobs

1

Location(s)

The William Henry Smith School, Boothroyd Lane, Brighouse, West Yorkshire, HD6 3JW

Position type

Permanent

Grade

NJC pt. 18-26

Salary

\xc2\xa327,344 - \xc2\xa332,909 FTE, pro-rated at \xc2\xa324,646 - \xc2\xa329,663 (dependent upon experience)

Advert Wording

Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of The William Henry Smith School.

Due to the expansion of services and continued growth of the organisation, we are looking to appoint an established and effective Family Intervention Support Worker.

Do you have demonstrable experience in working with families in a support or intervention capacity?

Do you have strong organisational and communication skills and an ability to work using your own initiative?

Do you have a positive attitude and mindset which mirrors the physical and mental health and wellbeing ethos of the Smith Foundation?

The successful candidate will possess the necessary qualities to play an integral role in the smooth running of the Smith Foundation\'s Safeguarding and Child Protection team.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Our recruitment process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce and contains robust vetting procedures. The successful applicant will be appointed subject to references and enhanced DBS check (this is a position working in regulated activity). The successful candidate will be subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process and must always adhere to a strict code of conduct regarding behaviour.

Our offer:

• A friendly and inclusive working environment.
• Dedicated career pathways to enable you to achieve your full potential.
• Opportunities to truly enrich the lives of our children and young people and make a positive difference.
• A Quality of Life and Well-being programme of activity, experiences and gifts.
• A competitive defined contribution pension scheme.
• An employee assistance healthcare cashback plan.
• Life Assurance Scheme (3x annual salary).
• A full induction programme, including an outstanding network of support.
• A learning and development programme and CPD.
• Assistance with childcare savings and cycle to work scheme.
• Subscription to Head Space, Perks at Work and Discount for Teachers online apps which offers hundreds of discounts and benefits.
• 50% towards the cost of branded work wear.
• Personal health and fitness training, and a financial advisory service.
• Free staff lunches and on-site parking.
• Staff Savings Scheme.

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\xe2\x80\x9cThe response to children when there are safeguarding concerns is excellent,\xe2\x80\x9d (Ofsted 2022).

The Smith Foundation is a registered charity that operates our outstanding special school, sixth form, specialist college, and a children\'s home, all for children and young adults experiencing social, emotional, and mental health challenges (SEMH).

The William Henry Smith is a non-maintained residential special school for boys aged 5-19. Our students have a breadth of special educational needs, including learning difficulty and disability. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation providing \'Ofsted Outstanding\' education, health, therapy and care. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The school and college operate across 2 sites; the college provides much needed \'specialised\' support to children and young adults who are struggling to flourish as a consequence of complex needs, and/or significant time out of any school or education provision.

Opportunities for success are provided through a diverse programme of bespoke individual learning pathways and life skills across the 24-hour curriculum, which serve to develop resilience, skills and accreditation for life-long learning, happiness, and an improved quality of life. The school has a strong ethos and culture, built upon firm foundations that underpins all our work on improving quality of life outcomes for all our students and their families, through our strong focus on key working, developing relationships with students, and partnerships with parents and carers.

The William Henry Smith Specialist College provides much needed \'specialised\' support to children and young adults who are struggling to flourish as a consequence of complex needs, and/or significant time out of any school or education provision. Our multidisciplinary, bespoke approach places students at the centre of everything we do. Our highly skilled and specialist teaching, support and therapeutic teams work with each young person to ensure their needs are fully met and that every achievement takes them closer to reaching their individual goals. We prepare our students for adult life, through person-centred academic and vocational study programmes leading to independent living with employment or further study. By working together, we increase resilience, confidence, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and well-being: the cornerstones on which strong and successful long-term futures are built.

The Foundation has a wealth and breadth of professionals which form an integrated team around students, including Creative Arts Psychotherapists, Speech and Language and Occupational Therapists, School Nurses, a Social Worker and a Family team. Residential Care and Teaching and Learning staff play a vital part in children\'s lives, progress and quality of life.

Our recruitment process is further embedded, ensuring our commitment to Safeguarding and our alignment with the Safer Recruitment procedure. The process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce and contains robust vetting procedures. The successful applicant will be appointed subject to references and enhanced DBS check (this is a position working in regulated activity). The successful candidate will be subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process and must always adhere to a strict code of conduct regarding behaviour. Shortlisted candidates will also be subject to an online search in line with the KCSIE 2022 Guidance.

The successful application will:

• Relevant experience in family intervention, support and/or social work, counselling, psychology, or a related field.
• Have excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships with students, families and the wider community.
• Knowledge of relevant intervention strategies and techniques for promoting positive family dynamics
• Be confident, highly motivated and flexible in your approach.
• Be able to work on own initiative.
• Be dynamic and forward thinking.
• Be passionate in motivating, inspiring and safeguarding children and young people.
• Be honest and act with integrity, be trustworthy and understand the need for confidentiality.
• Embrace and support the school\'s Quality of Life and Positive Behaviour Support ethos.
• Have a positive attitude and mind-set, embracing the positive physical and mental health and wellbeing ethos. This includes role modelling self-care and reflection as part of our wider curriculum.
• Have the ability to promote and celebrate diversity, collaboration, and equality in the school at all times.
• Be proficient in Microsoft packages.

Special School experience is not essential but a willingness to learn and understand the complex needs of our children and young people; drive, aspiration and achievement and the ability to promote quality of life most certainly is.

The school values equality and diversity across its workforce and aims to ensure our staff community is reflective of the diversity of the children and young people within our care. We are also committed to promoting the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of both students and staff and reflects life in Modern Britain.

Visits to the School are encouraged. For further information on this post please contact the HR department on email address:

Application packs can be downloaded from the school website: (please note we do not accept CV\'s).

Closing date for applications: Monday 28th August 2023.

Candidates selected for interview will be contacted: By Friday 1st September 2023.

Kirklees Council