Grade 12, point 35-38 Hourly rate £23.17 - £24.75. Actual salary £35,729.29 - £38,161.01. 37.5 hours per week, to be worked from Monday to Friday between 8.30am-3.30pm. employed for 39 weeks, term time only, plus 2 weeks

Full Time, Permanent

6th January 2025

27 November 2024

The Propeller Academy Trust is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage, or civil partnership.

Job details

Location: Fitzwaryn School, Denchworth Road, Wantage, Oxon OX12 9ET
Salary: Grade 12, point 35-38 Hourly rate £23.17 - £24.75. Actual salary £35,729.29 - £38,161.01.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, to be worked from Monday to Friday between 8.30am-3.30pm. employed for 39 weeks, term time only, plus 2 weeks
equivalent to ensure cover through holidays.
Contract type: Permanent
Reporting to: Deputy Headteacher
Responsible for: HSLW
Closing date for applications: 9am Wednesday 27th November 2024
Interview Date: Wednesday 4th December 2024
Start date: 6th January 2025

Main purpose

To ensure the implementation of the school’s Child Protection Policy, safeguarding processes and procedures. This includes contributing to the school fulfilling its statutory duties in respect of s157 of the Education Act 2002, s94 of the Education and Skills Act 2008, and other key statutory documents [including Keeping Children Safe in Education, Working Together to Safeguard Children].
The DSL will take the lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection across the school, including online safety.
To act as the main point of contact for families and professionals supporting the welfare and safety of children.
Working with pupils, families and school staff to ensure the highest level of attendance is maintained for pupils.
To promote a culture of listening to children, considering their wishes and feelings, working with teachers to gain these views using the child’s preferred method of communication.
To contribute to effective partnership working between all those involved with providing safeguarding services for children.
To advise and support members of staff on child welfare, safeguarding and child protection matters, liaising with relevant agencies, such as the local authority and police.
To retain ultimate lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection even where safeguarding activities are delegated to others including the DDSLs.
Application process
Please note that CVs will not be accepted. No agency applications either please.
Visits to the school are welcome by arrangement.
Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews arranged accordingly.
Please note, the school reserves the right to close adverts if a sufficient response is received. Early applications are therefore advised.
If you have not received communication from the school inviting you for an interview within ten working days of the closing date of the post, you can assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We thank you for your interest in the school and encourage you to apply for suitable vacancies in the future.
The Propeller Academy Trust and its member schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people according to child protection and safeguarding guidelines. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with children or vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All post holders are subject to the necessary pre-employment check, including a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, including a Child/Adult’s Barred List check (where applicable to the role in question).

Fitzwaryn School is a Special School and is part of The Propeller Academy Trust. We are located in Wantage, Oxfordshire.
Fitzwaryn is for children from 3 to 19 years whose special needs range from moderate (MLD) to severe (SLD) and profound multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) Currently there are 122 pupils on roll. The new Student Centre building opened in September 2018, providing spaces for more pupils to be admitted into the school. The school is continually oversubscribed.
The curriculum is organised so that children with similar needs can work together; each class has a mix of needs ensuring inclusion for all our pupils. Generally, each class teacher is responsible for all curriculum areas with individual subjects led across the school. Our organisation is flexible allowing individual needs to be catered for.
The school policy is to broadly follow National Curriculum subjects for all pupils from 3 – 16 years old and an Adult Curriculum model from 16 – 19 years of age thus meeting individual learning needs and encouraging the development of each child’s social and independence skills. School trips and residential visits are an important part of the curriculum offered by the school. A PMLD curriculum is in place for those pupils with more complex needs for whom National Curriculum subjects are not applicable.
The school offers accreditations; during 2023 – 2024 for the sixth form pupils we are transitioning to the offering of Entry Level Qualifications in Skills for Further Learning and Employment via Open Award.
Students can also work towards their Duke of Edinburgh Awards; we were delighted that in July 2023 some of our pupil achieved their Silver Awards.
Our Year 10 and 11s are working towards Open Awards Skills Passport.
Pupils can also achieve their Entry Level Functional Skills in English and Maths
Sport plays an important part in the school's curriculum. Pupils swim either at the local pool or at Kingfisher school when they need hydrotherapy, and there is a range of both competitive and non-competitive sports offered, as well as the use of PE apparatus and more specialised equipment for children with particular disabilities. Many of the pupils are involved in competing in sports events with other schools, both mainstream and special, and all pupils enjoy many outside trips.
In recent years Fitzwaryn’s choir has grown in popularity and they practice at lunchtime. The choir sings at local events e.g. the mayor’s carol concert.
Fitzwaryn School serves an area from Faringdon to Wantage, but a number of pupils come from Didcot, Abingdon, Oxford and surrounding villages. We also have pupils from the neighbouring Local Authorities of Berkshire and Wiltshire.
Fitzwaryn is the registered office for the Propeller Academy Trust and many of the central team are based within the school.