Home School Link Worker
The King's CofE Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 1DP8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 June 2025
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
- £26,409.00 - £29,093.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 6 SCP 9 - 15, Term Time + 6 days, Actual salary from £20,706 (Pay award pending)
Home School Link Worker job summary
The King’s CofE Academy is looking to recruit a professional, highly organised and motivated Home School Link Worker to join the Inclusion Team.
The post holder will play a crucial role in developing strategies intended to improve the attendance/ and behaviour of particular pupils. You will work closely with pupils, parents, and staff to help create a positive and supportive school environment where our students are able to flourish.
Key responsibilities include:
- To liaise with other school staff and agencies to identify pupils at risk of disaffection or lack of parental support...
- Work with families to provide advice and support, helping to overcome barriers to regular attendance.
- Liaise with teachers, pastoral staff, and external agencies to address attendance and or behaviour concerns.
- To develop positive home-school relationships –acting as a link between home and school, including making home visits
- Promote good attendance practices within the academy.
- Support the implementation of The King’s attendance policies and procedures.
Full details of duties for this role are outlined in the attached job description.
We will review applications on receipt. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date, and we reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.
Please note that we will take up references before the interview. It is essential therefore, that all reference details supplied are correct, up to date and include a current e-mail address.
Your personal statement should include an overview of who you are, your strengths, your work experience and/or education you have that matches the job description and person specification.
For further information, or to visit the academy, please contact the Miss S Smith, the Principal’s PA on 01782 783281 or email recruitment@thekingscofeacademy.org.
Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references
Commitment to safeguarding
Three Spires Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment.
The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Section 128 direction check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
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 The King's CofE Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 765 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The King's CofE Academy website
Our academy is a superb place to grow, to learn, to work and to flourish. As a relatively new academy (we opened in January 2016 and moved into our superb new build in November 2016), we are keen to retain our place as ‘the school of choice in Kidsgrove’.
Our motto ‘Learning with truth and love’ epitomises the values towards which our governors, our staff and our students strive to embody. Students are consistently inspired and encouraged to become everything that God has created them to be, through a wide ranging and inclusive curriculum and a wealth of exciting enrichment opportunities. We work hard to create a vibrant, mutually supportive climate for learning in which everyone can thrive.
Staff lead by example and are passionate about encouraging, inspiring, challenging and stretching every individual in their care, so that they can achieve at the highest levels. We do our utmost to maximise the attainment of each student, placing great emphasis on individual character development and personal growth.
We are an inclusive school with students of all abilities and social backgrounds. For those students with individual learning and physical needs, we have an extensive inclusion team. Our staff make every effort to get to know each student as an individual.
Our well embedded ‘Behaviour for Learning’ policy is designed to encourage positive attitudes to lessons and to ensure students’ behaviour underpins their learning. A recent external assessment describes behaviour in lessons as 'exemplary'.
Our mission is to enable students to leave The King's with outstanding results and life changing experiences, equipped to be responsible and caring citizens ready to make their mark on the world in which they live.
Staff turnover at The King’s is really low: people want to stay and work here. The academy is a community of its own. Colleagues join us from the local area and from further afield - it is a place where professionals want to work.
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