Parent Support Advisor

Oakhill Primary Academy, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71 5AG

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  29 September 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  10 September 2025

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: Grade 7
• Additional allowances:

  Grade 7

Parent Support Advisor job summary

The Parent Support Advisor will be Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead on site.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Support for pupils

• Support for teachers

• Support for curriculum

• Support for the school

Duties and responsibilities:

• Promote high quality parenting, supporting parents by helping them to improve their parenting skills for example by running basic and specialist parenting classes and providing appropriate information or referrals through Early Help Plan processes and other routes.

• Promote high levels of attendance.

• Adopt the role of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, leading and managing referrals and partnership work with other agencies.

Parental Engagement:

• To work with parents in a school context, supporting them and building their engagement with their child’s learning and progress.

• Support parents and their children through transitions to ensure continual engagement with school and learning.

• Ensure parents feel confident to engage with their child’s learning by arranging family learning opportunities at the school.

• To work in partnership with the wider team to facilitate family learning opportunities.

• To liaise with outside agencies to ensure up-to-date signposting for families who require additional support.

• To identify further opportunities to promote good relationships with parents and to support any challenging circumstances they may encounter.

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead:

• The deputy designated safeguarding lead should take responsibility for safeguarding and child protection (including online safety).

• The role of the deputy designated safeguarding lead carries a significant level of responsibility and training, resources and support will be given to allow you to carry out the role effectively.

• Additional responsibilities include providing advice and support to other staff on child welfare, safeguarding and child protection matters, taking part in strategy discussions and inter-agency meetings, and/or supporting other staff to do so.

• Demonstrate good understanding of all policies and procedures relating to child protection and safeguarding. Work with SLT to coordinate staff training to ensure policies and procedures are well understood and implemented across the academies. Work with SLT to undertake monitoring to ensure that policies and procedures are followed and develop action plans to ensure that staff are confident and competent in all aspects of safeguarding.

• Support SLT to ensure that staff induction is comprehensive and ensure all staff are aware of expectations in relation to safeguarding and to maintain accurate training records to ensure all statutory training is completed within timeframes.

• To attend and contribute to weekly safeguarding supervision to ensure that the safeguarding team have opportunity to discuss ongoing casework, to quality assure decision making and to monitor the completion of planned actions.

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 Oakhill Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 330 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oakhill Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oakhill-primary-academy-barnsley

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