Virtual School Advisory Teacher WCC621254

Job Details:

Salary range: £41,580 - £55,710 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: 101 Orchardson Street, London, NW8 8EA
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent 
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check    
Closing date: 11 June 2025
Interview date: Week commencing 23 June 2025

About Us:

The Role:

As an Advisory Teacher with our Virtual School, you’ll support and advise school leaders, social workers and staff as you help them identify educational barriers to children in care. Working to develop strategies to improve educational attainment and delivering high quality training and support, you’ll ensure statutory duties and best practice standards are met. We’ll also expect you to use a high level of technical knowledge in relation to all aspects of education, including SEN, exclusions and behaviour management.

In detail, your work will involve providing intensive educational casework for a designated cohort of children and young people, and delivering the education vision for our Virtual School. Ensuring high quality personal education plans are in place, and each child is receiving appropriate support, you’ll also work directly with children and young people to ensure that their educational needs are being met. This will include observation, mentoring and tuition, and would involve travelling to wherever our children are placed.

But your work won’t stop here – you’ll also develop positive and effective relationships with schools, leaders and teachers, and help to maintain the data for tracking pupil progress. We’ll also expect you to support the development and delivery of cross-service training for school staff, carers and social workers to raise awareness of the diverse educational needs and complex circumstances of looked after children.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

With a minimum of a 2.2 degree, qualified teacher status, and well developed knowledge of relevant education and social care legislation and  policy relating to children in public care, you’ll have worked for at least two years in a mainstream teaching post with experience of two or more key stages of education. Your inspirational communication and presentation skills will allow you build excellent relationships with a diverse group of clients and professionals, and you’ll be ready to use your superb organisational skills to prioritise a challenging workload.

Capable of identifying and recording children's progress, you’ll be an experienced user of IT systems, a confident report writer and possess a strong understanding of relevant theory and research. A motivating team member with a non-judgemental and reflective approach to your work, you’ll have a good understanding of children’s development and be able to produce evidence of continuing professional development. A champion for children and with the    courage to positively challenge school practice where it falls short, we’ll also expect you to have experience of implementing successful school improvement strategies.

Join us, and you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. And as a key member of our team, you’ll also have plenty of opportunities for development and progression within our organisation. We’re committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We’re a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role. 

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.   
 
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties  
 
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.  
 
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.