Child and Family Support Worker (Part-time Monday to Wednesday 0.6FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
An opportunity has arisen for an outstanding Family Support Worker to work with children and their families during these challenging times. To start as soon as possible.
This is a varied role that focusses in particular on supporting the Designated Safeguarding Leader in promoting the safety and wellbeing of our children and their families.
The job purpose is to ensure effective advice, guidance and support for families, children and young people in order to encourage engagement, raise standards, aspirations and facilitate academic progress.
You will have experience of making referrals, undertaking home visits and providing practical help and support to families.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to children and their families. You will benefit from the full range of support a professional and experienced team, committed to securing the best outcomes, can offer.
What the school offers its staff
We are a large primary school based in North Solihull, catering for pupils from ages 3 – 11.Kingshurst Primary School is an inclusive and happy school where children are provided with an engaging curriculum as well as a wide variety of extra-curricular opportunities throughout their school life.We promote ourschool values; resilience, aspiration and respect through all that we do. We are fully committed to raising standards to ensure our children receive a high quality education. We are proud of our journey of school improvement and continue to strive for further success.
We provide a safe and stimulating environment for children to learn in and we expect mutual respect and understanding of the opinions, beliefs and abilities of others. We have high expectations of the behaviour and attitudes to learning of our children and we promote respect, high aspirations and resilience from the whole-school community as we embed our values through all that we do.We encourage children to have excellent attendance in order to make the best possible progress they can in both their academic and social and emotional development. We believe these things should be recognised and celebrated in a positive way.
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.