Family Support Worker

Hayward’s is a thriving and expanding town school which serves its local community.  We aim to provide high standards of teaching & learning, developing confident and independent learners through our high quality provision.

At Hayward’s we recognise the importance of supporting the ‘whole-child’ in order for an individual to achieve their full potential. We know that many of our children and families, at different times within their primary education, may need access to family support of some kind. This may be supporting the management of challenging behaviour at home, coping with a difficult family situation, helping with housing and benefits or supporting a child who may have high levels of anxiety. We want to be able to respond to this need quickly and effectively while ensuring that any barriers, that impact on their ability to learn, are removed (or the impact lessened) as quickly as possible.

At Hayward’s we already have three pastoral leads across the school who have dedicated time within the week and are about to welcome a new Assistant Headteacher who will be leading on Inclusion. Part of the Assistant Headteacher’s role will be working closely with the Family Support worker to ensure that their work has maximum impact. We will be looking for the Family Support Worker to, at the same time, provide support for the Assistant Headteacher by carrying out a lot of the family focused work for the school.

The family support worker, under the direction of the Inclusion Lead, will take a role in:

• Planning, delivering, monitoring and evaluating the Early Help Provision at Hayward’s.
• Ensuring that families are well supported and appropriate time-limited help and support is available to them.
• Leading and carrying out key actions as a result of ‘Team Around the Family’ (TAF) meetings.
• Identifying the families and children who are most at need of the support.
• Ensuring that key staff are well briefed as part of the school’s At Risk Children (ARC) Meetings.
• Supporting and promoting good attendance amongst all pupils.

We offer:

• Enthusiastic, friendly and well-behaved pupils
• A hardworking, dedicated, warm and friendly staff team
• A commitment to professional development and career progression
• Half-termly supervision with our Educational Psychologist
• A network of staff to support the Inclusion and Safeguarding roles

Prospective candidates are welcome to visit the school. Please contact the school office by email office@haywards.devon.sch.uk or phone on 01363 772970 to arrange a visit.

Application form and job details are available to download from the vacancies section of the school website (www.haywards.org) or by request by emailing our school business manager: kbrett@haywards.devon.sch.uk

Applications must be completed in full and returned by 12 noon on the closing date.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.  This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and references.