Parent Family Support Adviser

3 weeks ago

Yeovil, United Kingdom Westfield Academy Full time

_**This post is 15 hours per week, term time only. Grade 12, £24,496-£27,852 pro rata**_

**Main Purpose of Job**
- Provide advice and guidance to the schools, families, parents, children and young people to encourage their involvement in the school environment and thereby encourage the positive participation of the students in the learning environment of the school, and improve the learning opportunities for those students.
- Investigate the circumstance behind absence or investigate the circumstances contributing or causing children and young people to be unable to make best use of time at school and, if appropriate, help resolve difficulties and identify areas that may be of concern in the near future. Enable the focus of attention on likely causes to provide a preventative option for the school and other agencies.

**Main Responsibilities and Duties**
- Undertake Early Help Assessments, advising and working with parents/carers to find the most appropriate way in which they can address and resolve issues. Liaising between home and school, providing a direct line of communication and link with the school.
- Undertake the role of Lead Professional where appropriate.
- Provide advice and guidance to families and students with known attendance issues, identifying the expectations from the school and also identifying how the school can provide assistance to the family should this be necessary and/or concerns regarding their positive engagement in school.
- With the families consent visit families at home with the purpose of empowering them to make the best use of their own resources, e.g. supporting families whose children are experiencing emotional health difficulties.
- Devise, implement and monitor the effectiveness of action plans and suggest amendments that should be considered to provide further assistance to the families. Involve other agencies to enable access to a wide range of services and opportunities.
- Identify likely consequences of actions not being completed and alternative courses of action by the school and/or other agencies, as a means of emphasising the responsibility of the parents.
- Provide advice and guidance to families in an informal setting and explain and publicise the available areas of assistance, e.g. parenting courses.
- Make presentations to individuals, groups of parents, students or those at risk of becoming exclusions on the consequences of a continuance of current behaviours, and identify approaches to changing behavioural patterns.
- Where appropriate, work with a range of agencies to support children and families, such agencies are likely to include Children’s Social Care, Family Intervention Service (FIS), Education Safeguarding Service and others. Where appropriate, attend, advise and contribute for multi-professional meetings.
- Publicise, promote and run any local appropriate group activities and parenting interventions.
- Facilitate the planning, development, monitoring, evaluation and review of parenting.
- Manage, develop and continuously improve local information systems to monitor, control and report on the operation of action plans, parenting support classes
- Provide appropriate advice, guidance to the schools Senior Management Teams and Governing bodies, e.g. on trends, and possible causes identified by the pooling of the information from a variety of other agencies and workers and its possible impact in specific areas which will have impact on vulnerable families and school attendance.
- Contribute to the transition work ensuring integration of students and families into the new establishments from other local provision and feeder schools, ensuring a consistency of approach and treatment and reinforcing the expectations of the school and the families in these new establishments.
- Identify and give an overview of local resource requirements and help develop local provision.
- Develop and produce promotional information, e.g. co-ordinating the production of newsletters and other PR marketing literature, specifically aimed at families who are experiencing difficulties.
- To pro-actively gather information about local services for families in the area and provide a signposting service for parents/carers and others
- Where appropriate to set up, provide and deliver new initiatives, to support parents/carers (e.g. respite/support during holidays).

**Facts and Figures**

Typically, a part-time postholder will hold an active caseload of 10. All work should be solution focused and time limited.

**SUPPORTING PROCESSES**
**Problem Solving and Creativity**
- Investigate absences and establish the real reason behind these occurrences. Provide advice and guidance to other agencies’ workers and share information on the likely cause and determine and implement solutions to resolve position.
- Ability to make holistic assessments and work with children, young people and their families to devise action plans linked to assessed needs.
- Ability to work with competing

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