Family Support Advisor
Buckfastleigh Primary School, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0DD10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 5pm
Date listed
14 November 2024
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
- £24,702.00 - £26,421.00 Annually (FTE) Pay Award Pending
Family Support Advisor job summary
Family Support Advisor
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Trust at Ashburton and/or Buckfastleigh Primary Schools.
The Family Support Advisor (FSA) works with parents/carers to ensure all pupils are supported in ways that allow them to achieve their full potential, paying special attention to those who are identified as vulnerable. The FSA fosters positive relationships with partner agencies and the wider community to promote the school as a place where safeguarding is taken seriously and done well. The FSA is a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (D/DSL) and works closely with the Head Teacher who is the Designated Safeguarding Lead.
We would be happy to consider either:
One Family Support Advisor working across both schools, or
One FSA per school, working 18.5 hours per school.
Please state your preference clearly in your supporting statement.
Westcountry Schools Trust, currently employing over 2,500 staff across 31 schools. We are a dynamic organisation with our students and staff at our heart. Our values inform our work and we hope you agree these are key to success:
Working for the Trust includes some key benefits, please see our website for full details.
If you would like an informal discussion about the role, or to organise a tour of the school, please call Laurie Archer at Buckfastleigh Primary School on 01364 643304 or Tammy Docking at Ashburton Primary School on 01364 652343.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this post.
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 Buckfastleigh Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 128 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Buckfastleigh Primary School website (opens in new tab)
A member of South Dartmoor Academy Trust
School location
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