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Family Support Worker

Sandringham School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 9NX

This job expired on 6 October 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 September 2024

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: £23,915.00 - £27,962.00 Annually (Actual) This role is working 39 weeks per year. The salary is based on working full time, 37 hours per week and is inclusive of annual leave. This role is graded H6 - H7.

Family Support Worker job summary

We are seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to join our outstanding school as a Family Support Worker.

This is a new position within the school and the main purpose of the role is to work closely with identified parents and carers of Sandringham School students to help overcome students’ barriers to learning, whether inside or outside school.

This will involve maintaining regular communication, putting interventions in place, and liaising with relevant staff and professionals to ensure parents and carers are consistently engaged in students’ development and progress.

The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and will be comfortable liaising with staff, students, parents and carers in a professional and supportive manner.

For this position, experience working with children or young people with additional needs (e.g., special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities, behavioural needs, mental health needs), experience supporting and working with parents of young people and engaging with colleagues and external stakeholders (e.g., from external agencies) is essential.

This role will work during school term time plus one week of the year within the school holidays,

We are able to offer this position on a part time basis of 20 hours within Sandringham School or full time supporting further schools within the Trust.

If you would like to work in a forward-thinking school and make a difference, we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate will:

• have professional integrity
• possess empathy with young people
• have the ability to work well within a team
• be inspiring, dynamic and passionate
  
• promote Sandringham’s ethos and values

Sandringham School is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and Atlas Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organisation. Sandringham, School also leads the Alban Teaching School Hub and is also a designated Computing Hub.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Ambition Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.

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.

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About Sandringham School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1767 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Sandringham School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sandringham-school-st-albans (opens in new tab)

Sandringham is a co-educational academy school, based in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Sandringham is a non-selective school with over 1600 students, including nearly 450 in the thriving sixth form. Our aim is simple – to be 'World Class' where our students receive the best education possible in a state school.

We believe that every child can succeed in life if challenged and inspired appropriately. A strong academic curriculum supported by outstanding extra-curricular provision helps Sandringham students develop as individuals with the necessary skills to be successful in adult life. Our ethos is summed up by our motto: 'Everybody can be somebody'

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