Family Support Worker

Links Multi Academy Trust, St. Albans, AL4 0TZ

44 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  20 August 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or Lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,061.00 - £34,434.00 Annually (Actual)

Family Support Worker job summary

The Links Academy Trust is seeking a flexible Family Support Worker to provide targeted, early-intervention support to vulnerable families across St Albans, Harpenden, Welwyn, Hatfield, and Hertsmere. Managing an active caseload, the successful candidate will work directly in family homes and school environments to address barriers to education, tackle issues like poor attendance and risk-taking behaviour, and model positive family dynamics. Key responsibilities include creating tailored support plans, delivering practical parenting guidance on routines and behaviour, helping with benefit applications (e.g., DLA, PIP), and coordinating with multi-agency partners through Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings.

This is an emotionally demanding yet highly rewarding role split between office-based case management and active community outreach. Candidates must possess exceptional communication skills, deep empathy, strong safeguarding knowledge, and the ability to maintain professional boundaries under pressure. The position requires a clean criminal records disclosure and the ability to travel across all Links Academy sites.

We are recognised as a ‘School of Character’ and encourage Responsibility, Respect and Resilience. These are characteristics we expect of all of our students and staff regardless of their role within the school.

The Links Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We will also require two appropriate references. As part of the recruitment process on line checks will be carried out on shortlisted candidates.

Any other comments:

We reserve the right to appoint during the recruitment process

• Support Staff: Numeracy and literacy skills to NVQ level 2 or GCSE grades: A-C/9-4

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

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 Links Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/links-multi-academy-trust

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