Social Care & Education Advocate

Our work spans education, social justice and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action and getting people into work.
Catch22 Include schools help vulnerable young people with challenging behaviours to realise their full potential.
With extensive experience of delivering services to children and young people, who have experienced difficulties in mainstream schools and whose education has irretrievably broken down, we support learners to achieve academic and vocational targets and progress into education, training and employment. This approach delivers significant long-term benefits to learners, parents and carers, communities and local authorities.
Our independent schools and a range of tailored support programmes are targeted at young people who fall into high risk groups in all key stages, including those who are excluded, or at risk of exclusion from mainstream schools, or Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), and those with social, emotional and/or mental health needs (SEMH) or special educational needs (SEN).
Provide tailored advocacy and support for individual pupils across the school, delivering and managing agreed interventions in collaboration with the Pastoral Manager and SENCo.

• Work directly with pupils, families, teaching staff, and support staff to ensure the emotional, social, and learning needs of vulnerable children are identified and effectively met.
• Support the Assistant Headteacher in their managerial role by contributing to the planning, implementation, and monitoring of pupil support strategies.
• Deputise for the Assistant Headteacher during short-term absences, ensuring continuity of support, decision-making, and leadership within the relevant areas of responsibility.
• Undertake line management responsibilities for designated support staff, including providing guidance, supervision, and support to ensure effective delivery of interventions.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with pupils and families through regular communication, family liaison, and personalised interventions.
• Contribute to a holistic, person-centered approach for each child, ensuring collaborative work with TAs, teachers, and external professionals to support individual progress.
• Play a key role in developing, implementing, and reviewing pupil support plans that promote inclusion, wellbeing, and academic development.
• Contribute to and promote implementation of EHCPs and SEN Support Plans under the guidance of the SENCo.
• Embed safeguarding, inclusion, and emotional wellbeing principles into all areas of practice, ensuring these remain at the core of all support strategies.
• Use assessment tools such as the Boxall Profile to identify pupils’ social and emotional needs and monitor progress over time.
• Oversee the tracking, analysis, and reporting of intervention outcomes to measure impact and inform future planning.
• Liaise effectively with internal staff and external agencies to ensure consistent, joined-up support for pupils and their families.

Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent.
Start Date: ASAP (subject to clearances)
*This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Catch22 Independent school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.