Parent Ambassador

Chiltern Wood School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 3NE

42 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  23 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  12 December 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: £6,878.00 - £7,443.00 Annually (Actual)

Parent Ambassador job summary

Chiltern Wood School is a Special School currently supporting over 200 students ranging from ages 3 to 19 years. We are based across three sites in the High Wycombe area.

We are actively recruiting a Parent Ambassador to join our team on a part-time basis.

We pride ourselves on building positive relationships with our pupils, their families and supporting professionals to enable communication, physical, social and emotional development for each individual.

We have extensive facilities on site to support this development and provide learning opportunities through a variety of experiences, lessons and routines.

Suitable candidates should have the ability to work with a high level of confidentiality and resourcefulness with parents, carers, partner organisations and external services in order to proactively support families in accessing a range of appropriate services and build effective relationships.

Duties will include but will not be limited toworking directly with children and their families in the community, within their homes as well as at the school, in order to promote, strengthen and develop the relationship between parents/carers, children and young people and the school.

As Parent Ambassador, the successful candidate will develop links with and utilise the resources of the community by effectively signposting and encouraging the access of all appropriately identified services to our families.

The ideal candidate will be able to establish positive relationships with children and their families and be a regular point of contact and a source of information for parents about the range of support agencies which are available to support them as well as signposting at the start of every day.

Further detail can be found within the Job Description.

Chiltern Wood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory, Enhanced DBS, qualifications and reference checks.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications

Closing Date: 23rd January 2026

Interviews : 26th January 2026

For full details and details of how to apply via My New Term please visit www.chilternwood.bucks.sch.uk

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

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.

About Chiltern Wood School

• School type: Special school, ages 3 to 19
• School size: 218 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Chiltern Wood School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chiltern-wood-school

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