Staff Wellbeing
At Barr Beacon, we place a very strong importance on wellbeing for all members of our community. This includes a commitment to staff wellbeing. We place staff wellbeing and workload at the heart of our decision taking and policy making. We meet regularly with a staff group which includes representatives from each faculty to listen to their views on workload and wellbeing and respond swiftly to their suggestions. At Barr Beacon School we:
• Place a very strong emphasis on a whole school approach to wellbeing
• Have an open door policy and listen to the needs of our staff
• Survey our staff to collect their views on workload and wellbeing
• Value every member of staff for the contribution that they make to our school community
• Place workload and wellbeing at the heart of our decision making
• Are committed to responding to the Workload Reduction Toolkit
We underpin everything that we do with our Beacon values - we are both a caring and supportive school for all members of our community. Our wellbeing overview shows how we support staff wellbeing and reduce staff workload and our mental health calendar shows our commitment to support the wellbeing of all members of our community.
Meet our cross Faculty Wellbeing Team
At Barr Beacon School, every faculty has a representative who meets at least each term to discuss staff workload and wellbeing. The team meets to discuss ideas to promote wellbeing such as Tea and Talk, flu vaccines, staff activities as well as having the opportunity to raise any concerns around workload. For example, the team worked collectively to streamline approaches to communication to ensure that they were time‑efficient whilst remaining effective for pupils, and have discussed ways to maintain effective communication whilst reducing email traffic.
We are very proud of our proactive whole‑school approach to staff wellbeing and my thanks go to all our workload representatives who have been so instrumental in helping me to reduce workload and promote wellbeing. Every meeting at Barr Beacon School starts with wellbeing – a sure sign of the commitment that we show to our staff – along with investment in the professional development of our staff such as National College and Subject Association membership.
Cross Trust Benefits
Etone College is proudly part of the Matrix Academy Trust. The Trust has a comprehensive package of support for all employees ranging from GP services to Technolgy and Cycling Schemes. Full details for the complete offer from the Matrix Academy Trust can be found in the HR section HERE
Please check out this page to see all that working for the Matrix Academy Trust can offer you.
