Student and Family Support Worker

Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, AL5 5FH

13 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  4 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,072.00 - £37,741.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £26,109 to £28,920

Student and Family Support Worker job summary

We are looking for a supportive Student and Family Support Worker to work 32 hours a week, term time plus 2 weeks (including INSETS)

Purpose of the Role:

To support and assist the Pastoral and Safeguarding teams working with students and their parents/ carers; primarily with cases where there is a need for intensive support impacting school progress / attendance and wellbeing in the home.

Core Responsibilities:

• Intensive therapeutic support of a caseload of students, on a regular one to one basis, to instill and develop good attitudes to learning, attendance and behaviour, so that they can achieve and flourish at KWS.

• Engaging closely with caseload students to help them learn how to manage their daily routines, learning, behaviour as well as related wellbeing and emotional issues – through personalised action plans for each student and family case.

• Liaise and communicate routinely with the caseload teachers, parents and carers so that they are constantly aware of their child’s progress, parent/ teacher views or general matters.

• Signposting parent education opportunities, external agency support or providing direct school support so that parents are empowered to engage and support in their child’s development.

• Dealing with Emergency issues that may arise as and when required to ensure students are emotionally supported and prepared for learning in a safe environment.

• Analysing student assessment, behaviour and attendance data regularly in order to identify good progress or under-performance with students in the caseload, or previous caseload, to inform planning and the implementation of new strategies, ways of working, additional support or intervention to improve outcomes.

• Weekly liaison and communication with Heads of Year to identify any student development or concerns and agreeing next steps with caseload individuals, and to agree caseload changes, including migration strategies.

• Holding regular review meetings with parents on their caseload to review and evaluate progress to then improve student’s and family therapeutic action plans.

• Shadowing caseload students around school and in lessons, to identify any barriers to learning or support the student may need.

• Liaising and communicating effectively with CAMHS, LINKS, Social Services, educational psychologists and all other outreach workers or external agencies when needed to support achievement and progress of students.

• Attend professionals meeting with external agencies to support the family

• Completing concern forms, referral documents, student reports and monitoring and other administrative support required for caseload students, e.g. ESMA referrals.

• Monitor CPOMS and attend safeguarding meetings with the safeguarding team.

Team Responsibilities:

• During the first hour of the day dealing with and signposting all daily queries either from telephone calls, emails or from the Pastoral Office face to face.

• Supporting all students emotionally at break and lunch times.

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection; health and safety; confidentiality and data protection; reporting all concerns to the appropriate person and through the appropriate procedures

• Responding immediately to any Safeguarding or CP issues.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Work attributes

• Listening skills

• Empathy

• Ability to relate well to children and to adults

• Firmness towards positive outcomes

• Self-starter

• Able to constructively build and maintain rapport

• Strength to hold people to account

• Tact

• Observing and applying appropriate boundaries

• Building self-reliance in children

• Good literacy and numeracy

• Able to recognise own development and training needs

• Able to support families and carers with students with challenging needs and behaviours

• Able to prioritise workload in consideration of safeguarding concerns

Knowledge and Understanding

• Safeguarding principles, procedures and best practice (although significant training will also be focused in this area)

• Strong understanding of child protection and external agency work

• Safeguarding training level 2 or above

• Training or evidence of practice in understanding trauma

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

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About Katherine Warington School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 923 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Katherine Warington School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/katherine-warington-school (opens in new tab)

Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a

further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding

schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).

Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk

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