Family Support Worker and Specialist Teacher

JR United Kingdom; Cannock; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading independent specialist day school in the UK seeks a Family Support Worker and Specialist Teacher to provide vital emotional and practical support to vulnerable families. The role focuses on enhancing pupil attendance, fostering community relationships, and offering tailored interventions for students facing challenges, ensuring impactful outcomes. The position is permanent, full-time, with a competitive salary and exceptional employee benefits.

Benefits

Life Assurance

Pension scheme

Mental health support services

Cycle to Work Schemes

Electric Car Purchase Scheme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable families.
• Understanding of educational needs and mental health challenges.
• Ability to build trust and provide holistic support.

Responsibilities

• Provide emotional and practical support to families.
• Promote good attendance and manage transitions back to school.
• Deliver targeted interventions for students with SEMH challenges.

Skills

Emotional support

Social support

Child-centered approach

Job description

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Outcomes First Group

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Posted:

02.07.2025

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16.08.2025

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Job Description:

At OFG, we work smarter so you can spend more time doing what makes you happy!

Job Title: Family Support Worker and Specialist Teacher

Location: Longdon Hall School, Near Lichfield, WS15 4PT

Salary: Up to £33,000.00 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday 8.30am - 4.30pm, Tuesday to Friday 8.30am - 4.00pm

Contract: Permanent, Full time

UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.

As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Family Support Worker to join our close-knit team at Longdon Hall School located Near Lichfield.

About the role

• The role undertakes to provide support when families can be at their most vulnerable. This requires a variety of social and emotional support skills to assist and support the best outcomes for the family. With a child-centred approach, this role remains focused on the needs of the child at all times, along with providing holistic support for those around them. You will be working directly with families and will be attending contacts both at the school and in the community.
• To promote good attendance of pupils at school to enable them to learn effectively and to develop socially and emotionally.
• To provide support for pupils who cannot attend the school site with academic and personal progress and develop plans to work towards a transition back into school.
• Ensure the safeguarding of pupils and young people within the school at all times.
• As a Specialist Teacher, you will deliver targeted interventions for students who are struggling to access learning due to specific barriers, including SEMH challenges. This will involve providing tailored support to help students re-engage with their education and develop the skills needed to succeed in the classroom.

Key Responsibilities:

• To offer emotional and practical support to parents and their families, in their own homes, in the community or during family support evenings at the school.
• To build a trusting relationship with the parents and young people to help alleviate or break their social isolation and increase capacity.
• To support pupils in transitioning back into school.
• To build up knowledge and understanding of local resources and community and statutory services, including Mental Health Teams, Social Services, Health, CAMHS, Schools, voluntary services and Rights for Pupils, and communicate effectively with them in the best interests of the child and family.
• To support on Early Help Assessments and implementation of its plans within the school.

For a full list of Duties and Responsibilities, please see the Job Description

About us

Longdon Hall School is an independent specialist day school for boys and girls aged from 7 to 18, catering for pupils with a wide range of social, emotional, and mental health needs. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life.

Our vision is to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK to be happy and to make their way in the world. Every day we improve the lives of thousands of young people, their families and communities through a relentless focus on caring and learning.

This opportunity is in Lichfield which is within commutable distance of Cannock, Burton upon Trent and surrounding areas.

Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education and residential care for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover
• Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

*You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 4DWW is subject to successful completion of probation and is not a contractual benefit.