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Family Support Officer

Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford, OX4 2AU

This job expired on 19 August 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  19 August 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 August 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,873.00 - £28,770.00 Annually (FTE)

Family Support Officer job summary

We are seeking an energetic, resilient, confident and empathetic individual to join our community. Working between our Pastoral, SEN and Safeguarding teams to enable the best outcomes for our students.

The successful candidate will be able to:

Develop good relationships with parents/carers of children at the school and encourage parental involvement in the school and its activities.

Be proactive and inclusive in identifying needs, and support children and families with information, advice and guidance in parent-craft and children's upbringing.

Competently investigate concerns raised by parents, pupils and teachers

The role is 37 hours per week, term time only.

We appoint on potential as well as experience, and we are committed to nurturing staff development. In return, we offer you a friendly and supportive environment and the chance to make a genuine difference to the amazing young people that make up our Academy.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’. Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

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.

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About Oxford Spires Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1317 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Oxford Spires Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oxford-spires-academy (opens in new tab)

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