Level 3 Forest School Leader - Furze Down School
Location: Winslow
Overview
Furze Down School are recruiting a Level 3 Forest School Leader to support across Secondary to develop therapeutic outdoor initiatives and programmes to promote good mental health and well-being.
You will be responsible for leading and delivering programmes that develops children and Young People’s confidence, social skills and language and communication and promotes:
- play, exploration and supported risk taking
- learning on the land as an integral part of their education and healthy development
- a Nature-based outdoor learning programme that focuses on holistic development and growth in children.
Term time only: Yes
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: R3 £14.16 -- £15.18 per hour
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37
Closing date: 13/12/2024 00:00
Interviews to be held: w/c 16/12/24
About us
At Furze Down School our vision is to: Create a Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs through our Specialism in Communication and Interaction; Raise the profile and status of children with Special Educational Needs, and to give support to their families and carers; Inspire and empower children and young people with SEN to become ambitious and aspirational for their futures; foster curiosity and a love of learning alongside the development of the key concepts, knowledge, skills and attributes important to being able to flourish in life, learning, work and leisure.
Website: https://www.fds.org.uk/
About the role
Please see Job Description
About you
Please see Person Specification
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.
Apply here: https://furzedownschool.face-ed.co.uk/Emp/Campaign/View/11940
Tel No: 01296 711380
Email: [email protected]
Our school is wholly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment. We a legal duty of care for the health, safety, security and wellbeing of all pupils and staff. This duty of care incorporates the duty to ‘safeguard’ all pupils and it is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that this duty is uncompromised at all times. In performing this duty, we recognise that there can be no complacency where child protection and safeguarding procedures are concerned.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
