Family Support Worker

Greet Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B11 3ND

31 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  19 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 December 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: £27,254.00 - £33,699.00 Annually (FTE) Full Time, Term Time Only (pro rata salary)

Family Support Worker job summary

Greet School is a 4-form entry primary school in the heart of Sparkhill providing the best education for children in an area experiencing high levels of deprivation.

We are a highly committed team, passionate about working in inner city Birmingham.

If you are an experienced, hardworking and a flexible team member who will strive to provide our pupils with the best education possible, we would like to hear from you!

We are friendly, welcoming and supportive and will look after your professional development and your mental wellbeing. We believe that colleagues should be treated with kindness and respect.

This exciting role will be based at the heart of our school. You will work as part of a wider pastoral team to support our pupils and families across a range of their existing or emerging support needs to include health, emotional, social and behavioural development.

You will have a key role in working with DSL colleagues in developing, delivering and ensuring the school’s Child Protection & Safeguarding procedures are robust and fit for purpose. You will work to ensure Child Protection & Safeguarding is thorough and effective in protecting all pupils. You will also play a significant supporting role in promoting good attendance & punctuality and will work closely with appropriate members of the school’s Inclusion and Senior Leadership Team.

We anticipate that this role will commence as soon as possible subject to appropriate checks.

Key Responsibilities:

• To identify pupils and families in need of additional support and promote effective homeschool partnerships.
• To engage with vulnerable children and families in order to formulate a package of support where necessary.
• To build effective relationships with families and establish good home-school links.
• To undertake outreach work, with parents in the home and the community, to provide information, guidance and support on a range of issues and interventions to include one to one, group work etc.
• To maintain regular contact with families of children receiving support to encourage positive family involvement in the child’s learning.
• To ensure that parents are fully involved in their child’s pastoral care /academic performance by establishing regular contact with those in the most need.
• To ensure the ‘Inclusive Attendance’ process is efficient and implemented timely and effectively to improve attendance across the school, and supporting the administration of attendance.

See full Job Description and Person Specification for full list of duties and responsibilities.

Create Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. Our safeguarding system is underpinned by policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

This post is covered by part 7 of the immigration act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement of this role.

Online searches are carried out on all shortlisted candidates for positions at Create Partnership Trust. The searches are carried out to identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the Trust might want to explore with the candidate at interview. Please find a link to our safeguarding policy https://www.create.org.uk/policies-documents you are encouraged to read this policy prior to applying to work with us.

CREATE PARTNERSHIP TRUST IS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE WORKFORCE

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 Greet Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 786 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Greet Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greet-primary-school-birmingham

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