Family Support & Engagement Officer

The Role

Chellow Heights Special School would like to appoint a Family Support & Engagement Officer to work with families, parents/carers and engage them in the learning process to support their child’s placement at Chellow Heights Special School. The successful candidate will be an outstanding practitioner with passion and commitment to make a difference.

The post holder will strengthen links between the school, parents, families and the wider community in order to reduce the impact of disability and disadvantage on educational attainment.

Key duties will include;

• Supporting families through interventions at the preventative and protective stages. The role aims to drive improvements to family support – reducing the number of families developing more complex needs and requiring more intensive and costly interventions
• Working closely with parents and carers to help overcome pupils’ barriers to learning, whether inside or outside school. This will involve maintaining 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
• Promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children and families where social and emotional issues are proving to be barriers to the child’s educational progress
• Monitoring and reporting on whole-school attendance data, analysing data to identify key areas of concern. To work closely with pupils, staff, parents and carers to reduce levels of absence

Please note: We do not accept CV’s.

Closing Date: 9am, Monday 11th November 2024

Interviews: Monday 18th November 2024

Chellow Heights is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful staff will be requested to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check and where applicable a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as part of our overall vetting checks.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and they do not need to be disclosed to employers. If they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website and further information about filtering offences can be found in DBS filtering guide

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