Job Introduction
About Us: BCP Virtual School is dedicated to ensuring that Children in Care (CIC) receive high-quality education and have aspirational futures. We promote the importance of a well-rounded education and provide support, challenge, and guidance to stakeholders in education, social care, and health.
Role Overview: BCP Virtual School is looking for an exemplary Lead Teacher to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for promoting high aspirations and improving the educational outcomes of CIC, ensuring every child has a clear educational plan for success.
As the Lead Teacher, you will support the implementation of key policies and procedures, provide guidance to school leadership and governor teams, and work closely with social care and multi-agency professionals. Your role will also include the quality assurance of all plans and support for an allocated caseload.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor the implementation of Virtual School policies, protocols, and procedures to ensure they support the improvement of outcomes for pupils.
- Provide direct support to colleagues, school leadership teams, governors, and other professionals to ensure the PEP process and document show a clear educational plan for improving outcomes of pupils.
- Provide regular case supervision for allocated team members.
- Contribute to management oversight of all records (including PEPs) for CIC, ensuring information is accurate and up-to-date.
- Retain oversight of all data analysis pertaining to your area of expertise and contribute relevant narrative for reporting against Virtual School key performance indicators/measures.
Specific Responsibilities for Post 1 – School Training and Pupil Key Stage Transitions:
- Design and deliver an annual training programme for schools.
- Provide guidance to Designated Teachers (DTs) and support them with practice audits and action planning.
- Coordinate the annual transition planning and support for schools and young people, ensuring accurate data recording and analysis.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Educated to degree level (Essential).
- Qualified Teacher Status or other relevant education qualification (Essential).
- Experience working within the wider Children’s care system, especially an understanding of the needs of Children in Care (Essential).
- Experience working in a school or education setting as a middle or senior leader (Essential).
- Extensive knowledge of school systems and planning educational provision (Essential).
- Experience working with vulnerable and challenging young people (Essential).
- Experience of effective practice within a Virtual School (Desirable).
- Working knowledge of statutory guidance as it pertains to CIC and your area of expertise (Desirable).
- Experience working as part of a multi-agency team (Desirable).
How to Apply: If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of Children in Care and have the qualifications and experience we are looking for, we would love to hear from you.
The interview will be held on 7 November 2024.
If you would like to discuss the position, please contact Leah May via email at leah.may@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation and colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. Expected to be in place 2024 or early 2025..
DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.
Attached documents
