Parent Family Support Advisor
The Priory Learning Trust, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 6BP5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
29 June 2026
Closing date
31 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 May 2026
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
- TPLTSS6 £28,653 - £30,773 (actual salary)
Parent Family Support Advisor job summary
Contract type: Permanent
FTE/Hours: 37 hours per week
Working weeks: Term Time Only plus 2 weeks
Salary: TPLTSS6 £28,653 - £30,773 (actual salary)
Location: The Priory Learning Trust Central Team
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Interview dates: 10th June 2026
Proposed start date: 29th June 2026
Are you a compassionate, resilient and proactive professional dedicated to breaking down barriers to education? The Priory Learning Trust is seeking a Parent & Family Support Advisor (PFSA) who thrives on empowering families and transforming student outcomes. Initially working with our Somerset based schools, you will be a bridge between home and school.
You will lead Early Help Assessments, facilitate multi-agency support, and deliver impactful support to families to allow them to access education successfully. We need someone who can navigate complex, emotive situations with diplomacy while maintaining the professional boundaries essential for safeguarding. If you have the drive to help children to thrive in school alongside excellent organisational skills, flexibility and flair you could be the vital link our community needs to ensure every child succeeds.
About the role
- Act as the vital link between home and school by providing targeted advice, undertaking Early Help Assessments, and conducting home visits to help families overcome barriers to educational success.
- Lead "Team around the Child" meetings and collaborate with external services, local authorities, and the Education Attendance Service to design, implement, and monitor robust family action plans.
- Design and run parental support courses, manage transition programs for feeder schools, and proactively promote pastoral services through local community engagement.
About you
- Educated to GCSE level (Grade C/4+ in Maths and English) with strong ICT skills (Microsoft/Google Suite); a counselling qualification or experience with student databases (like SIMS) is a plus.
- An excellent communicator who can build sensitive relationships with complex families, handle emotionally challenging situations with tact, and maintain strict confidentiality.
- Fully committed to child protection and safeguarding practices, with the organisational skills to work reliably in a team and collaborate with external agencies.
About us
The Priory Learning Trust is a group of like-minded schools whose shared ambition is to provide A Great Education for Every Child. Whilst each of our schools retains its own unique identity and ethos, being part of a family of schools brings additional support as well as opportunities to share expertise, provision and costs across our entire network.
From September, we will be part of the newly formed Pathway Trust. Our new trust brings together two existing organisations, Castle School Education Trust and The Priory Learning Trust who have been working closely together over the last few years with great success. Pathway Trust will comprise seven secondary and thirteen primary schools across Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We educate children from 2-18 years old. We have a strong track record of school improvement and a positive trend of improved outcomes. We are bringing together the complementary strengths and values of both trusts, with the sharing of resources and expertise across an extended network of schools enabling us to further invest in leadership and teaching for the benefit of all.
As a trust, our ambition is to enable every child to experience a great education. We have a compelling vision for each of our schools based on a deep understanding of each community we serve. Many of the challenges facing school leaders are common to all schools. Our approach to school improvement enables staff and pupils to benefit from the sharing of resources and expertise whilst remaining true to their unique identity and context. The Trust has employee development as a key priority.
We can offer you:
Teachers Pension Scheme: Secure your future with the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, one of the most generous and reliable public sector schemes in the UK with built in peace of mind, including a tax-free Death in Service lump sum, it ensures that your long term financial well-being is as robust as your professional legacy.
Local Government Pension Scheme: You will benefit from generous employer contributions with built in peace of mind, including a tax-free Death in Service lump sum, it ensures that your long term financial well-being is as robust as your professional legacy.
Enhanced Sick Pay: enhanced sick pay scheme during illness or unexpected sickness related emergencies, so you can focus on what matters most- your recovery.
Family Friendly: Enhanced leave packages to support your work-life balance.
Great team dynamics: Become part of a highly collaborative professional community, working with inspiring senior leaders and colleagues and sharing ideas, resources, and best practice across our family of schools.
Central partnership support: You will benefit from access to high-quality central services and specialist expertise, providing strategic support to enable you to focus on leading teaching, learning and school improvement.
Continuous Service: Full recognition of prior service for benefits which protects and enhances employment entitlements including sick pay entitlement, job security and protection of employment rights and access to family friendly leave.
Exceptional CPD: Dedicated budget and time for your professional development.
Diversity & Inclusion: A proactive commitment to creating a workspace where diversity is celebrated.
To find out more about the role, please refer to our job description attached.
In order to apply for this role please complete an application form via the link above. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the process.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
Join us in Providing a Great Education for Every Child
The trust is committed to equal opportunities and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and communities, as we recognise the importance and benefit this has for our pupils.
The Priory Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Successful candidates will be required to provide a disclosure of any unspent convictions and cautions, as well as any spent convictions or cautions that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered) under the Amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 and 2020).
All appointments are subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process. This includes an Enhanced DBS check (including a Children’s Barred List check), satisfactory references, medical fitness, Right to Work in the UK, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching/management check. In line with KCSIE guidance, we will also conduct online searches on all shortlisted candidates.
Our full Recruitment and Selection policy is available on our website.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Priory Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
TPLT is, in law, an educational charity as are all Multi-Academy Trusts; we support primary and secondary schools in the South West of England. At our core is a passion to put 'Students First' and deliver exceptional education for every single child and for every single family we work with.
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