Family Welfare Officer

Lammack Primary School; England; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Lammack Primary School is seeking a dedicated Pastoral Support Worker to help pupils overcome barriers to learning and attendance. You will work with families, deliver wellbeing training, and develop parenting skills with parents and carers.

The role involves home visits, school liaison, and providing advice on referrals to external agencies. You will establish positive relationships with pupils and families, support self-esteem activities, and attend to personal needs and welfare matters while

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• To support pupils in school, community and home settings
• To work with parents and carers to develop parenting skills and deliver parenting training and promote excellent attendance
• To promote children’s wellbeing and emotional and social development and deliver emotional wellbeing training
• To establish positive relationships with pupils and families
• To establish strategies and support pupils in self-esteem and confidence-building activities
• To listen to and help pupils resolve a range of issues that are creating barriers to learning and attendance
• To develop and enhance parental and carers engagement with the school and other agencies
• To visit parents at home to discuss issues and difficulties (particularly linked to attendance issues)
• Advise parents on behaviour strategies and parenting skills
• To produce reports for reviews and meetings as required (linked to attendance)
• To work collaboratively with professionals from a range of agencies supporting the child and family
• To provide advice regarding referrals to other agencies
• To be a point of contact for both telephone and face to face enquiries, taking messages and making appointments
• To liaise with other primary schools and gain any relevant information on new pupils
• To provide advice and support for pupils returning to school after a long period of absence
• To work with individuals or small groups of pupils
• To attend to pupils’ personal needs including help with emotional, social, welfare, care and health matters
• To liaise with parents and staff regarding pupils’ sickness, injury or pastoral concerns
• To make announced and unannounced home visits
• To organise visits from the school nurse etc and liaise with them as necessary
• To promote positive pupil behaviour in line with school policies and help keep pupils on task
• To understand and apply school policies in relation to health, safety and welfare
• To attend relevant training and take responsibility for own development
• To attend relevant school meetings as required
• To respect confidentiality at all times

Job description

• Tosupport pupils in school, community and home settings
• Towork with parents and carers to develop parenting skills and deliverparenting training and promote excellent attendance
• Topromote children’s wellbeing and emotional and social development and deliveremotional wellbeing training
• Toestablish positive relationships with pupils and families.
• Toestablish strategies and support pupils in self-esteem and confidencebuilding activities
• Tolisten to and help pupils resolve a range of issues that are creatingbarriers to learning and attendance
• Todevelop and enhance parental and carers engagement with the school and otheragencies
• Tovisit parents at home to discuss issues and difficulties (particularly linkedto attendance issues)
• Adviseparents on behaviour strategies and parenting skills.
• Toproduce reports for reviews and meetings as required (linked to attendance)
• Towork collaboratively with professionals from a range of agencies supportingthe child and family
• Toprovide advice regarding referrals to other agencies
• Tobe a point of contact for both telephone and face to face enquiries, takingmessages and making appointments
• Toliaise with other primary schools and gain any relevant information on newpupils
• Toprovide advice and support for pupils returning to school after a long periodof absence
• Towork with individuals or small groups of pupils
• Toattend to pupils’ personal needs including help with emotional, social,welfare, care and health matters
• Toliaise with parents and staff regarding pupils’ sickness, injury or pastoralconcerns
• Tomake announced and unannounced home visits
• Toorganise visits from the school nurse etc and liaise with them as necessary
• Topromote positive pupil behaviour in line with school policies and help keeppupils on task
• Tounderstand and apply school policies in relation to health, safety andwelfare
• Toattend relevant training and take responsibility for own development
• Toattend relevant school meetings as required
• Torespect confidentiality at all times

The dutiesabove are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may berequired by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within thecontext of the job, skills and grade.