What skills and experience we're looking for
FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER
Required from January 2025
Hours: 37.5 Term time only
Scale Point 13 (Range 13-15)
Actual salary £22,827 - £23,617
Archibald Primary School, part of Endeavour Academies Trust, are seeking to recruit a Family Support Worker to work in this large and successful multi-cultural primary school.
This new position of Family Support Worker will play a crucial role in supporting our children and families in making the most of their education and time at school.
The Family Support Worker will work alongside key staff, children, families and external agencies to encourage positive attitudes towards keeping children safe, great attendance and successful education.
This is a varied and rewarding opportunity to support our children and their families and to work as part of a great team. If you think you have the qualities we are looking for, we would very much like to hear from you.
We can offer you:
• A hardworking and very supportive team
• A highly organised school including well established systems and structures
• A vibrant, warm and friendly working environment
• Excellent opportunities for professional development
• Parents and carers who are receptive and appreciative of the support they receive
This school is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all and ensuring that all stages of the recruitment and selection process are free from unlawful discrimination and bias. Recruitment and selection procedures may be monitored to ensure that applicants are not being discriminated against on the grounds of any protected characteristic; sex, race, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and young people. We have a robust Child Protection Policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment with the Trust. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service criminal records check for work with children.
An online search will be undertaken on all shortlisted candidates, on information available in the public domain.
If you are interested in the position and want to find out more, please contact the school office (01642 804101) to arrange a visit. Following the half term holiday, the school office will be open from Monday 4 November.
Application forms are available from the school website or the school office by contacting 01642 804101. Completed application forms should be returned to Mrs A Jefferies, Headteacher, Archibald Primary School, Ayresome Green Lane, Middlesbrough, TS5 4DY or by email to office@archibaldschool.org.uk.
Archibald Primary School is an Endeavour Academies Trust school.
What the school offers its staff
Excellent opportunities for professional development
Pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension)
Annual flu jabs for all staff
Employee assistance programme
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.