Family Support Worker

Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 2XG

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  25 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £31,537.00 - £34,434.00 Monthly

Family Support Worker job summary

This is an exciting position for a candidate who has a passion to transform lives and change society through education. A key role within our mission to ensure we are inclusive and ensure all pupils can flourish and succeed at St Edmund Arrowsmith. We are looking to welcome a colleague who can strengthen our existing pastoral team and believes that our school can serve every child in the community. The right candidate for this role will be passionate about education and supporting all pupils in our school and relentless in the pursuit of equality and justice for all. They will have excellent communication skills and the willingness to use those skills to ensure that every child has the chance to succeed, understanding that some pupils require further support and guidance to enable them to flourish.​

• To support the school parents and pupils to ensure good attendance of all pupils.
• Setting high expectations for the pupils in all attendance matters.
• To work within the remit of the Trust Attendance Policy and procedures. Working with the Senior Lead Attendance, Deputy Headteacher and in collaboration with other members of staff, to provide support and intervention strategies to ensure pupils attendance is excellent.
• Undertake general attendance duties as directed to support the needs of the school and to improve pupil attendance.
• To work alongside key school staff and staff within the Pope Francis Trust to administrate and support the reduction in levels of student absence.

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.

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.

About Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 730 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/saint-edmund-arrowsmith-catholic-academy

At Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, our mission is to become the number one school of choice in the local area. It will be a school characterised first and foremost by our faith and strength of our Catholic community. We will be recognised for having an exceptional curriculum
that provides pupils with powerful academic knowledge and the character development they need to really 'Live life to the full'.

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