Family Support Worker

**Full Job Description**:
**_How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*?_**

**Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).**

**If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG**

**Job Title: Family Support Worker**

**Salary: £22,000 per annum**

**Contract: Permanent; Term Time only**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week; Monday - Friday**

**Location: Longdon Hall School, Near Lichfield, Staffordshire**

If you really want to make your mark in a rapidly growing business that is committed to improving the lives of pupils and young people, we have the role for you

**Job Summary**

To support the students and their families at an 7-18 co-educational SEMH special school. This support will be focused on attendance, safeguarding and welfare. It will involve multi-agency work, lone working and home visits on a regular basis.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- To monitor and support the attendance of the pupils, particularly those whose attendance is below expectations.
- Home visits to pupil’s homes and recording all contact with pupils and parents /carers.
- Supporting day to day care and welfare including safeguarding concerns working closely and communicating issues effectively with the SLT.
- Bespoke care for specific pupils requiring support with regard to attendance issues and occasions where there are difficulties with transportation to and from school.
- Responsible for dealing with any transport issues and communicating with transport directly to problem solve. Communicating effectively with parents/carers and teaching staff in school and recording actions and communications with transport and parents /carers.
- General assistance on a day-to-day basis working closely with the Stakeholder Support Leader and reporting concerns to the safeguard lead and SLT.

**About the School**

Longdon Hall School is an independent specialist day school for ages 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.

Acorn Education & Care 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.

Acorn Education and Care is part of the Outcomes First Group.

**Why join Acorn Education & Care?**

**Benefits**

**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

**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.**

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