Parent Support Advisor

Oakfield Park School, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF7 7DT

27 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Sept 2026

• Closing date

  5 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 June 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: £22,836.00 Annually (Actual)

Parent Support Advisor job summary

We are seeking a compassionate, proactive, and experienced Parent Support Advisor to join our dedicated team within a specialist SEND school from September 2026. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in supporting families of children with special educational needs and disabilities, helping to strengthen home-school relationships and improve outcomes for our students. You will act as a key point of contact for parents and carer's, providing guidance, emotional support, and practical advice to help them navigate challenges both in and outside of school.

Key Responsibilities:

- Build positive, trusting relationships with parents and carers

- Provide advice, support, and signposting to relevant services and agencies

- Work closely with school staff, including SENCOs, safeguarding leads, and pastoral team.

-Support attendance, behaviour, and wellbeing initiatives

- Assist families in understanding SEND processes (EHCPs, reviews, support strategies)

- Organise parent workshops, drop-in sessions, and support groups

- Liaise with external professionals such as social services, health services, and local authorities

- Maintain accurate records and ensure confidentiality at all times

Essential Criteria: Successful candidates will be:

- Committed to providing the best possible educational opportunities for families of children with severe and complex learning difficulties.

- Enthusiastic and motivated to work alongside other school staff and other professionals to deliver and support learning programmes tailored to individual pupil needs.

- Supportive of the school’s values and ethos, and eager to contribute to our whole-school approach.

- Committed to safeguarding and child protection procedures.

- Open to training related to Autism, behaviours that challenge (Team Teach), and other complex needs.

- Confident, self-motivated, and capable of working independently and using initiative to ensure positive outcomes for students.

- Committed to continuous professional development and self-evaluation.

- Flexible and able to travel between the Oakfield Park Sites and attend offsite meetings as required.

- Experienced in working with families and students with special educational needs (SEN).

Desirable (Training can be provided):

- Relevant qualifications: Safeguarding, Working with Families, Level 3 qualification or above relevant to post.

- Experience using a recognised form of sign language (e.g., Makaton, BSL) and other communication methods.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Oakfield Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Governing Body has a duty of care to students and all members of the school community. There is a comprehensive Safeguarding policy in place which, along with a policy for Health and Safety, is regularly reviewed by the Governing Body.

Our Safeguarding policy can be found on the school website under the Policies section and is also available upon request from the school office.

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 Oakfield Park School

• School type: Special schools, Does not apply, ages 11 to 19
• School size: 162 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oakfield Park School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oakfield-park-school

Oakfield Park School is a Local Authority maintained school situated in the pleasant village of Ackworth, near Pontefract. We provide a high level of specialised education for young people aged 11 to 19 years who have severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties. Many of our pupils have additional complex needs including ASDs, sensory impairment, challenging behaviour and physical difficulties. We provide high-quality specialist resources across the school, including a hydrotherapy pool, a sensory room, activity and soft play area, a food tech room, and a variety of outdoor resources.

We aim for all our students to develop a ‘voice’, to be as independent, social, and healthy as possible, enabling them to become citizens who engage positively with society while leading happy and fulfilled lives.

In October 2019 we received our second consecutive Ofsted judgement of “Outstanding”. The inspectors found that:

• The quality of education at Oakfield Park is outstanding.
• Oakfield Park is a remarkably friendly and welcoming school.
• Pupils work hard and achieve highly at Oakfield Park.
• Pupils say they love coming to school
• They (pupils) feel happy and safe because they know that adults care about them.
• By the time students leave school, they are exceedingly well prepared for adult life.
• Sixth form students get precisely the right support to help them to get ready for when they leave school.
• [There are] exceptionally strong relationships between pupils and staff

Pupils attend from across the Wakefield Metropolitan District. The school is well equipped providing excellent accommodation for pupils with disabilities including those with physical and complex needs. It is a single-storey construction allowing access for wheelchairs. We have:

- A heated hydrotherapy pool which is used by school pupils and hired out for community use.
- Activity soft play room
- Sensory Room
- ICT Suite
- Specialist Food Technology Room
- Independent Living flat
- Adventure playground
- Horticulture area including a large poly-tunnel
- Sensory garden
- Large wildlife area
- Spacious playing fields
- Well resourced specialist classrooms
- 3 adapted minibuses and a people carrier

Our Aims

We are a school which provides a centre of excellence through:

• Working in partnership with parents, families, staff, governors and other professionals to ensure the right of every person who has special educational needs to access the quality of education to which they are entitled.
• A shared commitment to building on knowledge and skills to develop independence in preparation for lifelong learning.
• Having high expectations of pupil standards, achievements and behaviour.
• Ensuring the care, safety and welfare of all of its pupils.
• Valuing every member of the school community.
• Providing a highly trained, professional staff team who are committed to delivering quality learning experiences that are challenging and rewarding.
• Celebrating progress, success and achievement through building on ability rather than disability.
• Being inclusive and promoting equal opportunity for all.

“All Different, All Valued, All Equal”

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