Family Engagement Officer

2 months ago

CadoxtonJuxtaNeath, United Kingdom Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council Full time

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02708

Date posted
- 12/03/2024

Application closing date
- 12/04/2024

Location
- Llangatwg Comprehensive

Salary
- £28,770.00

Package
- Temporary Post until March 25 (Grant Funded) Hours: Full Time 37 hours per week

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Education and Schools

**Family Engagement Officer**:
Job description

Family Engagement Officer

Start Date: 1st May, 2024 (or as soon as possible thereafter).

We are seeking to appoint a Family Engagement Worker for the Community Focussed Schools Initiative to start as soon as possible. This is an exciting opportunity to support schools in developing family engagement, community engagement and multi-agency working, through a cluster approach. Effective community focused schools provision reflects the needs of their children, families and communities they serve. This project will focus on Llangatwg Community school and its cluster primaries, finding out the needs of all stakeholders, shaping community-based learning and working with our most hard to reach families. The successful applicant will be based at Llangatwg Community School and will work to provide support to Llangatwg pupil, parents, and the wider family cluster.
- Ability to promote meaningful and productive relationships with families.
- Ability to develop partnerships that serve community and learner needs.
- Ability to support the alignment of integrated services to support our most vulnerable families
- Good Microsoft Office skills essential such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external clients, both verbally and in writing, with the confidence to engage with a variety of people (pupil, families, colleagues and stakeholders alike) and the aptitude to rationally explain, explore and discuss technical issues and capture feedback
- Enthusiastic, hard-working, with ambition and drive
- Ability to structure and prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole
- Ability to work in a team and independently without losing initiative and focus.

To support the delivery of the Community Focussed Schools Project within NPT. This will involve working as part of team of professionals to help develop a framework to support schools in developing family engagement, community engagement and multi-agency working, through a cluster approach.
- To promote meaningful and productive relationships with families.
- To develop partnerships that serve community and learner needs.
- To support the alignment of integrated services to support our most vulnerable families

Effective community focused schools provision reflects the needs of their children, families and communities they serve. This project will focus on Llangatwg Community school and its cluster primaries, finding out the needs of all stakeholders, shaping community-based learning and working with our most hard to reach families. The family engagement officer will work with a team of four family engagement officers at primary schools, and work within the school improvement service within the authority.

Main Responsibilities
- Engage with schools, through a cluster approach, to develop a shared understanding of effective parental engagement, sharing research and supporting them to develop their own vision for effective working.
- Conduct and participate in regular team meetings and develop effective lines of communication.
- Develop strong relationships with children and young people, parents/carers and school staff to understand their views and experiences. Effectively develop and manage these partnerships with all stakeholders throughout the CFS Project.
- Assist in developing and delivering training, presentations to all partners in the project on the importance of the impact in engaging effectively with parent to improve pupils’ outcome
- Assist in preparing reports to the local steering group on project progress and insight
- Work collaboratively with the relevant departments within the Local Authority to share good practice and problem solve issues identified.
- To be responsible for the delivery of the parental engagement and child poverty work, this will involve working with local partners, including project management, professional networks and in-service training.
- Developing plans to support activities with schools and ensuring that work undertaken generates the learning and evidence required.
- To carry out data, research and evaluation tasks to support the generation of the evidence and learning required to fulfil the national change strategy, including responsibility for the high quality implementation of agreed monitoring and evaluation activity. (Professional Learning Networks)
- To support influencing for local and national change, and sharing of our learning, including supporting the creation of resources, organising events and developing case studies.

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