Pupil and Parent Engagement Lead and Designated Safeguarding Lead

Teach. Champion. Empower. Safeguard.

Starting Salary: Dependent on Experience

• £48,241 - £51,677 per annum (TCES Salary Band 4.03)

Location: Wimbledon (with home working up to 2 days per week) and community settings

Contract: Permanent, Term time only, plus 3 weeks

We are seeking a highly child-centric education professional to manage a highly complex caseload of pupils and their families affected by Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA). Working flexibly from TCES’ Head Office, the community and pupils’ homes, you’ll work intensively with professionals and families to enable positive change and improve educational and wellbeing outcomes for children with the most complex needs; and you’ll hold responsibility for coordinating multiagency liaison and assessments with external partners. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will play a leading role in the development of TCES National Online School and ensure that operations meet service standards and strategic objectives.

In this role you will work with National Online School Headteacher and Provision Manager to ensure the successful delivery of a bespoke pupil induction programme. Lead the election and coordination of a pupil council, to ensure pupil involvement in the running of the school, including the use of student voice, opportunities for co-production and participation in interviews, curriculum and other elements. 

As National Online School’s Lead Family Practitioner, you will oversee the coordination and implementation of our bespoke FAST offer, and hold specific responsibility for family liaison, partnership and direct family work through a variety of mediums (including face to face, online and via phone).

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

• A champion of SEN and advocate for young people, with similar values to ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!
• Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding professionalism.
• Substantial demonstrable experience in supporting the needs of complex caseloads, families and care systems.
• Proven skills as a collaborative and supportive member of a team, actively engaging in solutions focused work.
• Organised with attention to detail.
• Proactive and innovative, collaborating with team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently.

In return we offer:

• Competitive salary & commission, and terms and conditions.
• An opportunity to join a leading provider of specialist education in one of the most rewarding sectors whilst directly contributing to the positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC.
• Comprehensive induction process, and excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development. Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.
• A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform.
• Gym & Active Health discounts.

The Company

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education.  

TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, at our Create Learning Primary, through our Create in the Community service or within our National Online School; our Create services support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with highly differentiated and personalised holistic therapeutic education programmes developed for each pupil focusing on development milestones. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main school, our Sixth Form, or into mainstream provisions. 

Closing date 15 August 2024

Interview Date 20 August 2024

To apply

Please complete the online application form or contact recruitment@tces.org.uk for more information.

TCES is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.