Family Liaison Officer
Southfield School, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 8NN12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
27 January 2025 at 2pm
Date listed
7 January 2025
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
- £25,992.00 Annually (FTE)
Family Liaison Officer job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Family Liaison Officer.
This role is complimentary to that of other school roles working in partnership to help further the vision and values of the school.
We are seeking to appoint a pro-active, organised, enthusiastic and self-motivated Family Liaison Officer who will work closely with parents and carers in all aspects of their child’s life at Southfield and at home. This will involve regular communication with families, working with external providers and internal professionals.
The successful candidate will have a strong track record of working with young people and families.
We are an ambitious school who has high aspirations for our pupils.
This is a permanent role, term time plus two weeks (five of these days will be INSET days) and will require the post holder to be flexible with their time in support of the needs of the school. See the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.
Applicants are strongly advised to visit the school, however, if you do have any questions, please do contact us.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Southfield School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 11
- School size
- 88 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Southfield School website (opens in new tab)
Dear Applicant,
Looking for a challenge? Have a desire to work in an environment where you can make a ‘real’ difference to the lives of young
people? If so, Southfield School could be the place for you.
We are a family where no two pupils are alike, and no two members of staff are alike. Our pupils all have challenging
communication difficulties/ASD and associated conditions.
Our school vision is to support all children, so they thrive during their time at Southfield School and are prepared socially,
emotionally, and academically for their next steps in education. Collaboration with parents and carers and the entire multidisciplinary
team who support our pupils is vital and key to our success.
Everyone plays a part in the future of our pupils with staff skills being utilised in order that we have a huge range of expertise, to
support our pupils and families.
We are looking for like-minded, resilient staff who are passionate and who can work in a team. See more about Southfield in
our School Video here: https://southfield-school.secure-primarysite.net/our-school/
Come and join us and make a difference to the lives of children every day.
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