Parent & Families Support Adviser

Grade 12 (£21,074 - £23,866 pa pro rata)

Provide advice and guidance to families and students with known attendance issues at the point of transition into the new school, identifying the expectations from the school and also identifying how the school can provide assistance to the family should this be necessary.
- Undertake Early Help Assessments and 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 and facilitate Team around the child meetings.
- Develop specific pieces of work, in agreement with the family, which could involve
- visiting families at home with the purpose of empowering them to make the best use of their own resources.
- 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.
- Be trained in Safeguarding to provide support for schools, if required.
- Make presentations to 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.
- Ø Ensure all aspects of monitoring the supervision of student whilst excluded are in
- place and operating effectively. Monitor and amend the provision of other
- services or assist families to provide the necessary skills to enable an
- improvement in ability to deploy the appropriate skills to meet requirements.
- Ø Provide progress reports on individual projects and initiatives to the respective
- bodies to ensure effective management is in place and ensuring that effective
- monitoring and administration routes are in place to complete the appropriate
- monitoring requirements.
- Ø Publicise and promote the work of the school pastoral services through active
- local engagement, effective consultation and ensuring all events are well
- planned and organised and the production and distribution of marketing
- materials.
- Manage, develop and continuously improve local information systems to monitor,
- control and report on the operation of action plans, parenting support classes etc
- and the improvements in the individual locations from these measures.
- Provide appropriate advice, guidance to the schools Senior Leadership Teams and Governing bodies eg 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.
- Identify the overall requirement for family or parental skills training requirements within the last year and estimate the likely requirements into the future and report to the schools on expectations for the forthcoming year. Ø Design and deliver parenting classes as appropriate. Ø Work with the Education Attendance Service to ensure where necessary parenting contracts and/or parenting orders are implemented and to play a part in delivery of action plans.
- Ensure there is a school wide approach to the issue of parenting skills and absence control including the co-ordinated links to other agencies, which will provide a wider perspective.
- Co-ordinate the transition work ensuring integration of students and families into the new establishments from other local and feeder schools, ensuring a consistency of approach and treatment and re-enforcing the expectations of the school and the families in these new establishments.
- Identify and give an overview of locality resource requirements and arrange for this to be available, or alternatives in place.
- Develop and produce promotional information eg co-ordinating the production of newsletters and other PR marketing literature, specifically aimed at this group.
- 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).

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: £13.18 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday