EBSA Practitioner - The Blandford School

Main Responsibility

You'll need to:

• Be passionate about education and have a desire to work with children who are unable to attend school for medical or mental health reasons.
• Promote good home school communication and ensure that the child maintains contact with the school and peers while not in school and support with planning for reintegration back into school.
• Develop the use of effective EBSA assessments and interventions to embed as good practice within the school.

Every day you will be meeting with students, staff, families and professionals. Whilst some meetings are on-line, you will regularly attend meetings in school or undertake home visits.

The Ideal Candidate

You will have:

• Great personal skills to be able to build strong working relationships between students, families and the school, to raise awareness of strategies and find opportunities to work together to support the child
• The ability to work well on your own as well as part of a team.
• Resilience and confidence in contributing to parenting assessments, supporting with mediation, crisis prevention and conflict resolution
• To have effective IT and literacy skills, to support the completion of accurate documentation, reports and records relating to work undertaken with children, young people, and their families.

The Blandford School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  Any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure and acceptable references.

All applications must be made either by completing the application form.  CV applications will not be considered.