Trust Family Support Worker
Ladybarn Primary School, Manchester, M20 4SR4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
1 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
8 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 5 points 13 to 19 £28,163 - £31,067, term time only + 3 weeks
What skills and experience we're looking for
‘Pupils are extremely happy to attend Cringle Brook Primary – they thrive in the caring and supportive school community’ – Cringle Brook Ofsted 2024
‘Staff are committed to helping pupils to develop a strong sense of community and belonging. Pupils feel confident to be themselves because of the supportive atmosphere that permeates the school’ – Ladybarn Ofsted 2023
‘The school promotes outstanding relations with parents. Parents are highly complementary about all aspects of the school, and are of the view that their children are happy, safe, and achieving well. ’ – Green End Ofsted 2015
Do you want to make a real difference to the families in our trust?
Do you want to play an important role in improving the life chances of our pupils ?
Do you have high aspirations for children and families in an urban context?
Do you have a strength in empathy, patience and self motivation ?
This could be the role for you. Kingsway Community Trust are looking to appoint a Trust Family Support worker, to work across the three primary schools in the Trust; Cringle Brook Primary, Green End Primary and Ladybarn Primary.
Main responsibilities
- Build positive relationships with pupils, parents and colleagues in the Trust.
- Support parents in addressing identified issues which are presenting as a barrier to developing further their parenting capacity.
- Support parents of children with signs of social, emotional, health or behavioural issues and work with them, school staff and other support agencies
- Utilize a trauma informed approach to working with parents and their children
- Support families to improve school attendance
- Work with parents with financial management and nutrition planning as required.
- Develop strategies to improve the engagement of parents and carers in school life
- Develop parents and carers understanding of their capacity to support their children’s learning
- Attend multi agency meetings as may be required regarding identified families.
Employee benefits include: -
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Professional Development and Training
- Company sick pay dependent upon service
The role is working across the three schools in the trust. Strong literacy and numeracy skills are essential and successful completion of tests in these areas is part of the interview process.
What the school offers its staff
Kingsway Community Trust a Multi Academy Trust, which is made up of Green End Primary School, Ladybarn Primary and Cringle Brook Primary School. This provides the staff and children of both schools with enhanced development and networking opportunities.
The Trust is led and managed by one Executive Headteacher, and a Trust Board. In each school there is a full time Head of School who lead and manage alongside the Executive Headteacher.
Kingsway Community Trust can offer you:-
- A thriving learning community with a positive ethos and innovative approaches
- A supportive and empowering environment, supported by a National Leader of Education
- The support of a well-established, highly successful and forward thinking Trust
- A culturally rich and diverse urban community
This position is subject to 2 professional references and DBS clearance
Further details about the role
First Stage assessment date: 6 December
Second stage assessment/interview: 10 December
We cannot accept CVs as an application. Our application form must be used and completed in full, making sure you address the person specification. Submissions received without a completed application form will not be considered.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@kingswaycommunitytrust.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ladybarn Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 479 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ladybarn Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@kingswaycommunitytrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 432 7036
Ladybarn Primary is part of Kingsway Community Trust, which also consists of Cringle Brook Primary in Levenshulme and Green End Primary in Burnage, both of which are also Ofsted Graded Outstanding. As part of the Trust, Ladybarn benefits from strong links with these two schools.
The curriculum we provide at Ladybarn is tailor made to give all children a thirst for learning, a motivated engagement in school and the best chance to attain high academic success. There is a strong emphasis on developing confidence and skills to be excellent communicators in all situations. Our school has a very strong sense of community, with nurture and strong relationships at its core.
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