Vacancy Details
Vacancy Summary
This is an opportunity to work alongside Newhall Park Primary School to support children and families to improve issues which are causing poor attendance and behaviour, and helping parents to become more engaged with their child’s learning attainment and aspirations.
School-Home Support Practitioner – Newhall Park Primary School
Location: Bradford
Salary: £18,074 - £20,401 per annum depending on experience
Contract: Permanent, 5 days a week during Term Time only
Vacancy Information
School-Home Support (SHS) is a dynamic charity working to ensure every child is in school ready to learn. For over 35 years it has been working with children and young people struggling to stay in school due to a wide range of complex issues. We get children and young people back in school ready to learn, whatever it takes.
This is an opportunity to work alongside Newhall Park Primary School to support children and families to improve issues which are causing poor attendance and behaviour, and helping parents to become more engaged with their child’s learning attainment and aspirations. The practitioner will work with pupils and their families to provide practical and emotional support to vulnerable families across the school.
The successful candidates will have experience working in a school environment, be a motivated creative thinker and have strong abilities in engaging challenging children and their parents.
Duties of the role:
- Provide targeted casework for vulnerable pupils and families
- Organise group work for both children and families
- Provide 1:1 emotional and practical support for families
- Encourage parental engagement in learning
- Undertake work supporting improved attendance
- Support wider parental engagement in school
- Work as part of a team
- Collate and utilise data and statistics and produce reports for the funder, sometimes at short notice.
- Support families and children transitioning to secondary school.
For further details and an application form, please go to https://www.schoolhomesupport.org.uk/about-us/jobs/school-home-support-practitioner-newhall-park-primary-school/
Closing Date: 9.00am, Monday 6th December
The advert may close early if we get suitable applications
First Stage interviews will be held: Tuesday 7th or Weds 8th December
Second Stage interviews: TBC
Start Date: TBC
School-Home Support is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
School-Home Support takes very seriously the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and is committed to ensuring that our safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice. Our safeguarding policy recognises that the welfare and interests of children are paramount in all circumstances.
This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.