Family Support Worker

Leodis Academies Trust, Wakefield, WF3 1QQ

17 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  20 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  3 October 2025

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: £25,870.00 - £29,037.00 Annually (Actual)

Family Support Worker job summary

As a Family Support Worker, you will manage a caseload of pupils and families aged 2-19, offering tailored support for a range of challenges including health, behaviour, parenting, and peer relationships. You’ll work closely with pastoral teams, external agencies, and early years professionals to deliver impactful interventions and practical strategies—both 1:1 and in group settings.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and support families in need across our Trust, with a focus on early years.
• Deliver parenting support and guidance to improve family dynamics.
• Conduct Early Help Assessments and maintain accurate case records.
• Collaborate with schools, social services, and community organisations.
• Champion the SilverCloud parent programme and contribute to the Leodis Support Service.
• Facilitate coffee mornings, targeted groups, and transition support for vulnerable students.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience working with children, young people, and families in an educational or social care setting.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage a varied caseload.
• Knowledge of Early Help processes and multi-agency working.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Leodis Academies Trust and our individual Academies are committed to ‘Forging Young Futures’. To do this, each Academy has its own ethos and identity, and has the freedom to develop individually as well as working collaboratively to secure high quality outcomes for all its young people. By providing an extensive curriculum, both within and beyond the classroom, we cater for the wide range of talent and ability that our students have to offer. We work tirelessly to improve the life chances of all our young people and support them to make a positive contribution to their community.

Benefits include Contributory pension through West Yorkshire Pension Fund, free parking, access to an expanding range of lifestyle benefits including the SAS Employee Assistance Programme which includes access to GP and Physiotherapy appointments, free flu jabs and a cycle to work scheme.

All posts are subject to pre-employment checks, two references will be sought and successful candidates will need to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS), medical clearance and provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and evidence of qualifications.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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 Leodis Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Leodis Academies Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/leodis-academies-trust

Leodis Academies Trust was established in April 2016 to formalise the collaborative working of four high performing schools within close proximity of one another. In September 2018, Blackgates Primary Academy joined the Trust, cementing our place at the heart of the Tingley and Ardsley Community. Leodis offers young people the opportunity to experience consistency and security in their education, from 2 years old to 18 years old; from the start of nursery, to the end of Sixth Form and into adulthood.

Leodis Academies Trust and our individual Academies are committed to ‘Forging Young Futures’. To do this, each Academy has its own ethos and identity, and has the freedom to develop individually as well as working collaboratively to secure high quality outcomes for all its young people. By providing an extensive curriculum, both within and beyond the classroom, we cater for the wide range of talent and ability that our students have to offer. We work tirelessly to improve the life chances of all our young people and support them to make a positive contribution to their community.

Whilst Leodis consists of schools closely geographically located, the Trust works collaboratively with a wide range of partner organisations both locally in Morley and South Leeds, as well as further afield with our Initial Teacher Training partnerships, Universities and employers.

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