Trust Family Support Worker
Ambition Education Trust, St Albans, AL4 9NX20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 December 2024
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
- £24,593.00 - £28,667.00 Annually (Actual) H6 - H7 depending on experience
Trust Family Support Worker job summary
We are seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to join our Trust as a Family Support Worker. The role involves working closely with identified parents and carers of pupils to help overcome barriers to learning, whether inside or outside school. This will require regular communication, putting interventions in place and liaising with relevant staff and professionals to ensure parents and carers are consistently engaged in pupils’ development and progress. You must have proven interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to inspire and motivate all members of our school community and, where conflict arises, be able to act as a facilitator in finding successful resolutions. Experience working with children or young people with additional needs (SEN, disabilities, behavioural needs, mental health needs) is essential. Ambition Education Trust comprises ten schools - you will be located at an identified home base and working across two or more schools to ensure the development of strong relationships both within each school and family.
Key responsibilities:
To support vulnerable pupils and their families to become more independent and resilient, overcoming barriers to learning and engagement
To empower vulnerable families to take a greater role in their children’s learning and thereby increase standards of achievement for vulnerable pupils
Key benefits to being an employee of The Ambition Education Trust:
Friendly working environment with supportive and caring colleagues
Extensive staff well-being programme
Generous pension benefits
Onsite catering facilities
Excellent facilities with significant recent investment
All staff encouraged and supported in their professional development
Desirable location to live or work with great transport links and perfectly located for job seekers from Herts, Beds, Bucks and North and West London
We welcome visits from potential applicants. Please contact our Trust Team on 01727 853134.
For further details and an application form please visit https://www.ambitioneducationtrust.org
Closing Date for applications: Friday 10th January 2025 at 9am
Interview Date: From Monday 13th January 2025
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We seek to ensure that all our staff feel valued, supported and enjoy exceptional professional development opportunities. For more information about Ambition Education Trust please visit our website.
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 are not accepted.
About Ambition Education Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
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