Children and Families Support Worker

Park Community Academy, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 9HF

30 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  12 April 2026 at 10pm

• Date listed

  12 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 28,848 - 32,363.07

Children and Families Support Worker job summary

Applications are invited for:

Children and Family Support Worker

      

We are seeking to appoint a Children and Family Support Worker to work within our Children and Family Support Team. The Family Support Team address the increasingly complex needs of a rapidly expanding school population at this large and popular Special School for pupils with moderate and complex learning difficulties (age 2 – 19)

The role involves ensuring that pupils and families are accessing relevant services to improve outcomes for pupils. To promote and develop the service and work effectively with other agencies.

 

Other necessary qualities include being able to maintain confidentiality, efficiency and being able to work on your own initiative and under pressure and a willingness to contribute to the continued improvement of our school.

 

Further details of the requirements of this post can be found on the Job Description.

     Ofsted October 2023

Park Community Academy continues to be an outstanding school.

Park Community Academy is a school where everyone is welcome. The school recognises pupils, including children in the early years, and students in the sixth form, as incredibly talented individuals. All pupils have special educational needs and/or disabilities. The school’s tenacious approach to enabling pupils to overcome their barriers to learning helps them to thrive

Closing Date:          Sunday 12th April 2026

Interview Date:         TBC

Start date ASAP



Please note that The Sea View Trust are a Joseph Rowntree Foundation employer

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Safer Recruitment
The Sea View Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. We are committed to protecting our students and staff and therefore have a rigorous recruitment process that includes assessing candidates’ suitability to work with children.

The settings within our Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will be required to hold an enhanced DBS Disclosure. To ensure compliance with Safer Recruitment Guidelines, CVs will not be accepted.

Applying for the job

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

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Park Community Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 328 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Park Community Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/park-community-academy

Park Community Academy is a large all age special school (2-19 years) for pupils with moderate and complex learning difficulties.

OFSTED May 2018 – Judged to be an ‘Outstanding School’ in all areas
• ‘This school, above all else, is a happy and life affirming place in which to learn and work’
• “The school’s values radiate from every member of the school community’
• ‘All groups of pupils make exceptional progress at this remarkable school’

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