Family Support Worker

New Leaf School, Walsall, West Midlands, WV12 4EG

2 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  21 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  19 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 35 hours a week; 40 weeks a year
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 Months
• Pay scale: Grade: 6 (SCP 15 – 23)

What skills and experience we're looking for

New Leaf School

New Leaf School is seeking to recruit a skilled and enthusiastic

Family Support Worker

Grade: 6 (SCP 15 – 23)

Fixed Term Equivalent: £30,024 - £34,434

35 hours a week; 40 weeks a year

What the school offers its staff

This is an exciting time to join New Leaf School. This is a fast paced and energetic environment, where all staff work together, with families, to improve the life chances of some of Walsall’s most vulnerable children.

New Leaf School is a Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) serving the whole borough of Walsall. All pupils attend New Leaf following permanent exclusion from a mainstream school; many pupils might have a range of needs including social and emotional difficulties which can often impact upon their learning. Consequently, the ability to engage with challenging and vulnerable learners is an essential part of this job. Our mission is to ensure that each young person leaves New Leaf on the correct pathway to be able to fulfil their best educational outcomes and life chances.

New Leaf School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Suitability checks will be undertaken for any successful candidate in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (2025) including identity, Right to Work, qualifications, prohibition check, two references and DBS check (enhanced).

Please contact Claire Fairburn if you require any further details: cfairburn@newleaf.walsall.sch.uk

Forms to be returned by the closing date shown below.

Closing date: Wednesday 21st January 2026.

Interviews will be held: Thursday 22nd January 2026

The school reserves the right to bring forward the closing date for applications if there are suitable applicants.

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 New Leaf School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: No information available
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/new-leaf-school

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