Assistant Family Worker

Woodlands Secondary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3SP

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Summer term 2025

• Closing date

  17 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  27 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12,959.00 - £13,672.00 Annually (Actual) 22 hours per week 39 weeks per year

Assistant Family Worker job summary

Woodlands is an Outstanding (Ofsted 2024) secondary special school. The school is committed to the provision of high quality education for young people aged between 11- 18 with severe, profound and complex learning needs.

The Assistant Family Worker will operate as part of Pastoral/Family Work Team and will provide a crucial link between the school and the family by:

1. Supporting the Family Workers by keeping accurate records of contact with families, including monitoring attendance, making phone calls and completing appropriate paperwork .
2. Liaising with the school nurses, school dental services and visiting medical professionals in relation to routine medical screenings and appointments and communicating this to parents and staff.
3. Supporting families to complete documents.
4. Liaising with the Family Workers to act as an advocate to enable families to access services.
5. Assisting with the organisation of parent training and workshops.
6. Attending, as required, Annual Reviews, parent meetings, staff meetings and professionals meetings to build knowledge and understanding of the needs of individual pupils and their families.
7. Carrying out welfare visits alongside a colleague as part of our duty to safeguard young people.
8. Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of young people including recording information accurately and in a timely fashion on our school system, CPOMs.
   

We would like to hear from you if you have

• the desire to make a real difference to the lives of young people and their families

• We would like to hear from you if you have

  • the desire to make a real difference to the lives of young people and their families
  • commitment to working as part of a busy, productive team
  • experience of working with learners with a range of disabilities
  • experience of working alongside families and supporting engagement with a range of professionals.
  • excellent organisational skills
  • excellent communication skills

Commitment to safeguarding

Woodlands Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Woodlands Secondary School

• School type: Special school, ages 11 to 18
• School size: 262 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodlands Secondary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodlands-secondary-school

Woodlands is a large secondary special school located in the north of Luton. Our mission statement is to 'Empower our young people to become successful adults.'

Our students have severe or profound learning difficulties, some have additional learning needs.

We have developed and refined our ambitious curriculum offer to meet the needs of the different cohorts of learners to ensure that learning is interesting, relevant and functional.

We have great facilities on site and aim to enrich learning by accessing the community and applying learning beyond the classroom.

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