Family Support Worker
Orion Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC Scale 1, points 2-3 (36 hours, 39 weeks)
Family Support Worker job summary
Based at Orion Eden Park
Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
About the role
The Family support worker will act as a key link between home and school relationships. Working closely with the pastoral teams in school and relevant external agencies.
Key Responsibilities
Promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children and young persons for who you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
To provide professional support across all year group, which secures success and continuous improvement in attendance.
Working with appropriate middle and senior leaders to manage and / or implement and track attendance intervention for pupils depending on the severity of the needs.
Under the leadership of the Vice Principal Pastoral to work with school staff, the Inclusion Team, and external agencies, to provide support and guidance for students and families across the school.
Supporting the School’s Vision and Values ensuring every student has a sense of belonging, identity, and pride.
Be a key member of the team, which holds significant responsibility for managing the efficient and effective day to day of attendance procedures ensuring all students are safeguarded.
Building relationships with families by conducting meetings and home visits to ensure students are accessing education.
Conducting home visits with the intention of identifying barriers and ensuring correct support is put in place. This involves working alongside the Education Welfare Officers and the Local Authority.
Attending safeguarding meetings such as Child in Need, Child Protection meetings, PEP meetings and Strategy meetings to ensure attendance concerns are documented and all safeguarding concerns are shared.
Working closely with the DSL and wider safeguarding team to build partnerships with the local authority. Visiting and carrying out safeguarding visits to alternative provisions.
Management of reduced timetables and safeguarding procedures are followed.
Development and Implementation of risk assessments for high level students.
Supporting on the Early Help processes and actions related to them, including with external agencies
Parents/Guardians are updated daily via telephone calls, letters and/or emails to inform them their children has been referred and stage of attendance
Act as a mentor or keyworker for certain pupils.
Liaise with all relevant partners across the school to ensure early identification of pupils at risk of disengagement.
To act as part of the strategic Safeguarding Team and ensure that safeguarding is effective and child protection actions implemented.
Be aware and comply with all safeguarding policies.
Maintains strict confidentiality and prioritizes safeguarding in all tasks.
Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Commitment to safeguarding
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Orion Eden Park
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1303 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Orion Eden Park website (opens in new tab)
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.
Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.
We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.
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