Home School Link Worker Millbrook & Charlton Primary Schools
Millbrook Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 7LB18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
16 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £32,578.00 - £35,570.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 8. SCP 18 - 23. 37 hours, 38 weeks Actual - £27,616.12 - £30,152.42
Home School Link Worker Millbrook & Charlton Primary Schools job summary
Are you passionate about helping children and families overcome barriers and thrive in school?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring and highly skilled Home School Link Worker to join our team, working across Millbrook and Charlton Primary Schools.
This is a rewarding role for someone who is passionate about making a difference to children and families and who understands that sometimes, with the right support at the right time, a family can overcome challenges and achieve positive change.
About the roleAs our Home School Link Worker, you will build positive, trusting relationships with children, parents and carers, helping families to access the support they need and ensuring that children are able to engage positively with school.
A key focus of the role will be improving attendance and reducing barriers to children’s success in school. You will work preventatively with families, providing early intervention, practical support, guidance and signposting, particularly at times of change, difficulty or stress.
You will work closely with school staff and external agencies, helping to coordinate effective support around children and families. This will include contributing to Early Help, attending Team Around the Family meetings, supporting Children in Need and Child Protection processes, making appropriate referrals and undertaking home visits where required.
You will also:
- Develop strong, positive relationships between home and school.
- Support families to improve attendance and punctuality.
- Provide practical and emotional support to children and families.
- Help parents develop positive strategies around behaviour and parenting.
- Support children to develop confidence, wellbeing and self-esteem.
- Act as the school lead for Young Carers.
- Work closely with external agencies and community services.
- Maintain accurate records and monitor the impact of interventions.
- Contribute to safeguarding and become a Designated Safeguarding Lead within the school's safeguarding team.
- Participate in supervision, training and continuing professional development.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Warm, approachable and non-judgemental, with an ability to build trusting relationships with families.
- Passionate about improving outcomes for children and removing barriers to their success.
- Confident working with families experiencing challenging or complex circumstances.
- An excellent communicator who can work effectively with parents, children, colleagues and external professionals.
- Well organised and able to manage competing priorities.
- Able to work sensitively and professionally with confidential and safeguarding information.
- Proactive, resilient and solution-focused.
- Committed to working collaboratively as part of a wider school and Trust team.
You will need to be able to work both independently and as part of a team, using your initiative while recognising when further advice, support or escalation is required.
Why join us?This is an opportunity to become an important part of the pastoral and safeguarding work of two welcoming primary schools.
You will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of children and families, build meaningful relationships and see the difference that well-timed, practical and compassionate support can make.
The role offers variety: no two families or days will be the same. You will work alongside school leaders, teachers, support staff and external professionals, developing a broad understanding of the factors that influence children's attendance, wellbeing and success.
If you are someone who believes that every child deserves to feel known, valued and supported, and you want a role where you can make a tangible difference to children and families, we would love to hear from you.
Come and join our team and help children and families thrive.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Millbrook Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Millbrook Primary School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 482 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
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Millbrook Primary School
"Believe Achieve Succeed"
Our vision is to be recognised as an exceptional school, a school where every member strives to help each other to be their best each and every day.
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