Family Support Worker
Colne Valley High School
Kirklees
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary £23,864, full time, term time plus 5 days
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 11 April 2024
Job overview
Colne Valley High School
Family Support Worker
Permanent role
37 hours per week, term time plus 5 days
Salary - £23,864 per annum (FTE £27,334)
The successful candidate will be expected to support and assess the needs, risks and strengths of our students and their families. You will play a key role in providing families with practical support, advice, and guidance around a range of issues. You will also be responsible for signposting in need families in the correct direction, to enable them to access universal and targeted services. As a Family Support Worker, you will be enabling families to achieve and maintain outcomes that best supports them, providing a package of support interventions to meet their targeted needs.
You will be responsible for addressing the barriers to students’ attendance, engagement, and learning, and will support with the implementation of effective interventions for students and families.
Part of the role will be to provide support for students who are at risk of exclusion from school, and therefore you will work preventatively with them and their family to raise their attendance and punctuality levels.
We are looking for someone that has a warm and caring nature, who is adaptable and ready to work with other educational providers to support effective transition for vulnerable children and families. Emotional resilience is essential for this role, as is having an awareness of Safeguarding and Child Protection Issues. You must have an ability to engage with parents/carers on a one-to-one basis and possess strong interpersonal skills as you will be working daily with students, colleagues, and external agencies.
If you are committed to enhancing the lives of children, young people, and their families then we would love to hear from you.
If you are interested in this role please complete our application form, as a Word Document and return to Hayley Drummond, Recruitment Officer at h.drummond@greatheightstrust.org.uk
We look forward to hearing from you.
Closing Date – Thursday 11th April, 9.00am
Interviews - TBC
Great Heights Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out; references will be sought, and successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, an online search, and other relevant checks with statutory bodies.
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About Colne Valley High School
- Colne Valley High School
- Gillroyd Lane, Linthwaite, Huddersfield
- West Yorkshire
- HD7 5SP
- United Kingdom
Colne Valley High School opened its doors in September 2014 as an Academy, sponsored by the Mirfield Free Grammar and together, by striving for excellence in all that we do, we have developed one of the most vibrant learning environments in the district. Located in an area of outstanding natural beauty in the heart of the Pennines, the Academy has almost 1300 student on roll in Years 7 to 11. The school is within easy commuting distance from Leeds and Manchester and is situated within a 10-15 minute drive of the M62 corridor.
Outstanding schools have outstanding teaching and the quality of teaching is the single most important factor in a school’s success. All students, irrespective of ability, are driven to “be the best they can be”. Our ethos is driven by our mission – “To enable our students and staff to achieve their best” and our vision is that everyone, every student and every member of staff, can be exceptional, every day.
At Colne Valley High School we have agreed to live our school life by our values:
• Respect – we recognise, accept and celebrate differences
• Integrity – we are truthful and honest in all that we do
• Team work – we aim to be the best for our team
• Aspiration – we strive to be the best we can be.
Our staff lead by example and work hard to ensure that our young people feel happy, valued and safe, but equally they endeavour to enthuse them with a sense of aspiration, optimism and ambition. Work ethic is important and so is attitude. We encourage a “can do” attitude in relation to both work and play, and our expectations are extremely high.
We aim to:
• Sustain a culture of high expectations in which every individual is valued equally;
• equip all our students for lifelong learning enabling them to achieve their potential;
• provide an environment in which all staff experience a sense of professional well-being and are to give of their best;
• provide an engaging, creative and enjoyable experience of teaching and learning;
• engender a sense of personal worth and physical and emotional well-being which enables students to become confident, self-reliant, self-disciplined, healthy and responsible;
• promote excellent standards of behaviour through highly effective personal relationships;
• equip students with the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary for them to make a positive contribution to society and prepare them for the world of work;
• foster effective partnerships between students, staff, parents, governors and the wider community.
We work hard to maintain a happy and well-run School, where students feel confident to thrive and develop. We strive to make our School a place of sound, stimulating and appropriate learning, where every student can achieve their true potential. We create a caring community where great emphasis is placed upon good relationships and partnerships to encourage respect, understanding and co-operation.
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