Family Support & Attendance Officer
Crowdys Hill School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 7HJ17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
8 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
29 July 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
- £25,700.00 Annually (Actual)
Family Support & Attendance Officer job summary
Crowdys Hill School is a dynamic and expanding special school for students with moderate learning difficulties and complex needs from across the Borough of Swindon from the ages of 4 to 19.
We are seeking to employ a Family Support and Attendance Officer to work as part of our Safeguarding Team supporting our young people and their families.
Under the guidance of our Designated Safeguarding and Attendance Lead, you will work closely with staff, pupils, parents and the local authority to monitor and improve attendance, including look for any trends and reporting this back in weekly/termly meetings with relevant staff.
You will support our families through attending and organising Early Help meetings, following a graduated response to improve outcomes for our pupils.
You will promote positive behaviours and act as a role model for the pupils. You will also work as part of our Safeguarding team attending relevant meetings and keep notes of action points.
You will work across both our sites (Jefferies Avenue and Swindon College North Star) as well as undertaking home visits so a driving licence and use of your own vehicle is essential (mileage paid).
If this sounds like the job for you, then we can offer:
- Friendly and supportive colleagues.
- Supportive school, committed to achieving exceptionally high standards.
- An interesting, diverse and exciting career.
- A strong ethos and a commitment to collaborative working.
- A commitment to safeguarding and the promotion of the welfare of children and young people.
- A sense of achievement at the end of a day.
- Ongoing training in all areas of the role.
- Working with a range of pupils from 5-19 years of age.
- Opportunities to continue with training in relevant areas of interest.
- You will be a Swindon Borough Council employee, under their pension scheme.
- You will have access to other Crowdys Hill School and SBC employee benefits and discount schemes including Blue Light..
- After 6 months successful probation you will be eligible to join our free health care scheme run by Vitality.
- Free parking at both sites.
Safeguarding Statement
No previous applicants or CV's will be considered.
In accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998, jobholders should take reasonable care to ensure that personal data is not disclosed outside Council procedures, or use personal data held on others for their own purposes. In accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, ensure requests for non-personal information are dealt with in accordance with the Council’s written procedures.
To comply with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1998 (as amended by S147 of the Nationality and Immigration and Asylum Act 2002) all prospective employees will be required to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Applicants must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the immigration act – for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).
Crowdys Hill School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, all post holders are subject to background checks, an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure and employment checks.
Online searches will be carried out and references will be called for and checked prior to interview. The right to work in the UK, qualifications and proof of address will be checked at the time of the interview.
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
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Crowdys Hill School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 326 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Crowdys Hill School website
School location
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