Home School Link Worker (maternity cover)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Home School Link Worker to join the team at Thomas Knyvett College on a temporary basis - maternity leave cover. This role supports teachers in facilitating the emotional and educational development of targeted children.

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday 8:20am to 4:08pm - 36 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term-time only).

Key duties include but are not restricted to:

• Working directly with children and families, individually and in groups, particularly focusing on parenting skills, behaviour management and practical supports.

• Supporting teachers in facilitating the emotional and educational development of targeted children.

• Supporting the Senior Leadership Team in delivering mental health and wellbeing intervention activities for pupils.

• Understand the assessment process for providing early help and intervention. Attending and contributing to child protection case conferences, CIN meetings and TAF meetings effectively when required to do so.

• Be willing to undertake the Designated Safeguarding Training and be part of the Safeguarding Team.

• Keeping clear records on meetings and contacts, recording actions to be taken.

• Actively encourage and support parents to fully engage with school by attending meetings in school etc.

• Work with the Attendance Officer and IWO to help improve pupil attendance.

• Help parents understand the EHCP process and other SEN issues.

• Support families/the child/the school to access grants and information needed to fully engage with school.

• Following discussions with other professionals, carry out home visits to provide co-ordinated support for families and children.

Candidates should possess excellent interpersonal skills and listening skills with a commitment to helping. The postholder will work directly with children and families, indiviudally and in groups, particuarly on focusing on parenting skills, behaviour management and practical supports.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 GCSE's at Grade C or above (including English and Maths), or equivalent, or able to evidence ability at an equivalent level.

Values and Behaviours

The Howard Partnership Trust is a values-based organisation which seeks to recruit individuals who can demonstrate our values.

Our values will be assessed through the selection process. We therefore ask all applicants, when providing their supporting statement, to incorporate not only how they meet the essential criteria for the role but to also how they demonstrate our values.

Our THPT values are:

• Integrity - displaying honesty and having strong moral principles
• Partnership - working together and taking collective ownership to achieve the same goals
• Advocacy - working hard on behalf of others to maximise their success
• Resilience - finding success again after something difficult or negative has happened
• Compassion - displaying empathy towards and a desire to help others
• Aspiration - aiming high to achieve success

Safeguarding and Further Information

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are 'spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.