Family Support Worker
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston, preston, Lancashire, PR1 5XL18 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 June 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
- £27,269.00 - £31,067.00 Annually (FTE)
Family Support Worker job summary
The Governors are seeking to appoint a Family Support Worker who has recent experience of working with children, young people and families to support the needs of the community which we serve.
This is an exciting opportunity to be a key part of our staff team, dedicated to giving the children the best life chances possible, and living out the School’s mission, ‘You are precious in My eyes’
We are looking for a dedicated, enthusiastic and knowledgeable person to:
- work with a genuine child-centred approach;
- work alongside other agencies to deliver services to parents and children
- deliver established procedures to address the needs of pupils and their parents/carers who require additional support to overcome the barrier to learning; including attendance, punctuality, health and pastoral support
- promote and deliver safeguarding processes within school as a Designated Safeguarding Lead
This position is term time + 2 weeks, please note the salary quoted is full time equivalent. If successful the salary received will be paid on a pro rata basis.
If you are ready for a new and exciting challenge then we would like to hear from you.
Safeguarding
Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share the commitment and undergo an enhanced DBS check. The successful candidate will be appointed under the terms and conditions of a CES contract which they will be required to sign. The employer will be the Mater Ecclesiae Catholic Multi Academy Trust.
The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013), If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a ‘Disclosure.’ Information provided by you or the Disclosure and Barring Service will be dealt with in a confidential manner in accordance with the DBS’s Code of Practice. You may view the Code of practice on the DBS website at www.gov.uk/dbs or alternatively a copy is available on request.
The school’s safeguarding policies can be found using this link.
Mater Ecclesiae has adopted Lancashire County Council’s policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders. This is available to all applicants upon request.
Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
Commitment to safeguarding
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff 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 are not accepted.
About St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 345 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston website
We are uniquely different as a Catholic school. Prayer, worship, Gospel values and the celebration of Mass as well as preparation to receive the Sacraments are central to what makes us a Catholic school. Jesus is at the centre of all our work, relationships and dealings with each other.
St Joseph’s is a Good School. (Ofsted September 2019). Its staff and leaders are confident in the strong teaching and learning opportunities they are providing for the children as well as having a clear vision, and direction for further improvement.
The Quality of Education is GOOD, Behaviour and Attitudes are GOOD, Early Years is GOOD and Leadership and Management are GOOD.
We will continue to strive to maintain these high standards for all.
St Joseph’s is a school where everyone is encouraged to achieve their best. But in addition to raising academic achievement, we also aim to develop character, embed important values for life and build confidence and self-esteem. Our aim is to enrich the lives of our children and to provide a breadth of opportunities for everyone.
St Joseph’s has wonderful children who want to learn, and dedicated, caring adults who always put the children first.
The interior of the school is warm and welcoming with big airy classrooms, high quality resources, interactive whiteboards, well stocked ICT equipment and happy, smiling children. We have a large sports hall for P.E lessons and extra-curricular clubs as well as for use by the community. We also have a school hall for assembly, worship and lunchtimes.
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