YFRS Safeguarding Lead For Inclusion & AP PO4

ABOUT THE NEW Youth & Family Resilience Service (YFRS)

The Youth & Family Resilience Service will be at the forefront of ensuring a holistic and wraparound support offer for children at risk of being excluded and those educated outside of mainstream schools. The evidence demonstrates that children and young people excluded from school experience limited life chances when compared with peers who are not excluded. Over the last five years, Waltham Forest has seen significant increases in permanent and fixed-term exclusions from our schools.

SCHOOL INCLUSION AND ALTERNATIVE PROVISION IN WALTHAM FORESY

Our new strategy to improve inclusion in schools and alternative provision (AP) approved by Cabinet in 2020. The strategy was produced in collaboration between the education sector and the council and aims to:

• help ensure the best start in life by keeping children & young people safe
• maximise educational & vocational outcomes;
• strengthen emotional health and well-being;
• reduce offending rates of young people educated outside mainstream settings.

We will test our new whole-system delivery model over the coming year, creating a joined-up, multi-tier approach from self-help and school-based inclusion through to long-term AP.

 

ABOUT THE ROLE: YFRS SEFEGUARDING LEAD IN AP AND INLCUSION 

Pay SCale: PO4

In this role, you will take lead responsibility on behalf of YFRS for advice, support and challenge to colleagues and partners across schools and other settings on all safeguarding-related issues during strategy groups, case work, case transfers, education transitions and safeguarding arrangements such as risk panels.

You will coordinate work with partner agencies to ensure that an enhanced safeguarding offer is in place for children and young people who are vulnerable and who have risk factors in their lives, including wider family and environmental factors risk factors. The job requires offering expert advice, support and challenge to schools and alternative settings around safeguarding and how to maintain focus on outcomes for children and young people. You will also:

• coordinate and promote parent and family engagement strategy for children and young people at risk of exclusion, children attending AP and those reintegrating to mainstream settings; 
• contribute to quality assurance, systemic practice embedding, monitoring and evaluation of YFRS and partner provision such that they lead to a strengthened safeguarding response to children and young people and increased family resilience and wellbeing;
• to ensure that local authority services, schools, settings, partner agencies and families are given the expert guidance regarding vulnerable or at-risk children and young people, including advice on systemic, trauma-informed, and child-first approaches.

Equal Opportunities
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population.

We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace.

The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives contained within the Waltham Forest Council Equality Plan 2012/2015:

- Promoting equality of opportunity

- Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage

- Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels.

- Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.

Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

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