Family Support & Engagement Officer (E6125) - Chellow Heights Special School
Chellow Heights Special School
Chellow Heights West Site: Thorn Lane, Bradford
Chellow Heights South Site: Netherlands Avenue, Low Moor
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9 6AL
Family Support & Engagement Officer
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Hours: 37 per week (term time only plus 5 days)
Working Pattern: Monday - Thursday, 8am - 4pm, Friday 8am - 3:30pm
Chellow Heights Special School is seeking a Family Support & Engagement Officer to work with families, parents, and carers, engaging them in the learning process to support their child’s placement at Chellow Heights Special School. The successful candidate will be an outstanding practitioner with a passion and commitment to make a difference.
The post holder will strengthen links between the school, parents, families, and the wider community to reduce the impact of disability and disadvantage on educational attainment.
Key duties will include:
* Supporting families through interventions at the preventative and protective stages. The role aims to drive improvements to family support, reducing the number of families developing more complex needs and requiring more intensive and costly interventions.
* Working closely with parents and carers to help overcome pupils’ barriers to learning, both inside and outside school. This involves maintaining regular communication, implementing interventions, and liaising with relevant staff and professionals to ensure parents and carers are consistently engaged in pupils’ development and progress.
* Promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children and families where social and emotional issues are barriers to the child’s educational progress.
* Monitoring and reporting on whole-school attendance data, analyzing data to identify key areas of concern, and working closely with pupils, staff, parents, and carers to reduce levels of absence.
Closing Date: 9am, Monday 11th November 2024
Interviews: Monday 18th November 2024
Chellow Heights is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful staff will be requested to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as part of our overall vetting checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, amended 2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and do not need to be disclosed to employers. If disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website, and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organization. To apply, please follow their application instructions.
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