Family Liaison Officer
Magna Academy, Poole, Dorset, BH17 8RE17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
5 January 2026
Closing date
8 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 37 hrs/week Term time and Inset only Monday - Thursday 7:30 - 3:30 Friday 7:30 - 3:00
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade F 12 - 17
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job overviewFamily Liaison Officer
StartDate: 05/01/2026
Term time and Inset onlyFTE: 0.856335Salary: Grade F points 12 - 19 £28,598 - £31,022 (actual salary £24,489 - £26,565)
Closing date: 9 am 08/12/2025
We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and professional Family Liaison Officer to work closely with families, pupils and staff to promote excellent attendance, engagement and wellbeing.
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting families to overcome barriers to attendance, building positive home–school relationships and ensuring every pupil can access their education consistently and successfully.
We are looking for an individual who has excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills. You should be able to manage sensitive information with discretion, work proactively using your own initiative and build trust and rapport with a range of stakeholders. A real passion for improving students' life chances is imperative in this role.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the monitoring of attendance, analysing data, implementing attendance strategies and supporting families through early help and intervention. The role also involves signposting parents to appropriate external agencies and support services, and working in partnership with outside professionals such as the BCP Attendance Team, health and social care teams, and other community-based organisations. Training will be provided as needed.We can offer a supportive and collaborative team, a vibrant professional community and a positive school culture committed to continuous professional development.
Most importantly, we are a child-centred school with enthusiastic pupils and a strong ethos of inclusion and care.For more detailed information about the role, please refer to the attached job description.
What the school offers its staff
What we offer:
- Bespoke support and line management from an experienced Head of Department
- Professional progression opportunities
- Great students who conduct themselves impeccably
- Strong systems and structures meaning students feel safe and secure
- Measures to reduce staff workload such as centralised detentions and a sensible feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – we do not have onerous/impossible marking policies
- A centralised homework system at KS3
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ feedback, helping you to continuously develop – we believe that trusting our staff with autonomy helps to develop a strong ‘develop and excel’ culture
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- CPD starts as soon as you are appointed and is ongoing
- State of the art facilities and a very pleasant location in beautiful Dorset
Next steps:
Please visit https://www.magna-aspirations.org/vacancies/ to apply ensuring you include a covering letter that demonstrates how you feel you meet the Person Specification.Magna Academy Poole offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious, talented individual looking to develop their career. We would be delighted to show you around our Academy in order to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment. Contact Zoe Challis zchallis@magna-aspirations.org for a tour
.Interview date: From 10th December 2025
About Aspirations:Across our 16 Academies, Aspirations educate more than 9,000 pupils across the ages from 2 to 19 years, covering an area from West London to the Southwest of England. Operating since 2011, we have a consistent track record of improvement and success and offer excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities.
We are determined that children receive an excellent education that prepares them for success in adult-life and are looking for people to join us who share our ideals.We welcome applications from people with disabilities and guarantee an interview for those with a declared disability should they meet the minimum criteria for the job.
The Equality Act 2010 defines disability as “any physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities”The Aspirations Academies Trust (AAT) requires all prospective employees appointed to work in its academies and/or whose role will involve the undertaking of regulated activity to submit an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate prior to taking up appointment. Applicants are required, before appointment, to disclose any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings that are not “protected” as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 by SI 2013 1198). Disclosure of a criminal background does not not automatically debar individuals from employment – consideration will be given to relevant factors, including the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
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About Magna Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 966 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Magna Academy website
- Email address
- jeldridge@magna-aspirations.org
- Phone number
- 01202604222
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Arranging a visit to Magna Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jeldridge@magna-aspirations.org.
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