About this role
A ROLE BUILT AROUND RELATIONSHIPS Could you be the person who helps make sure no child or family is left on the edges?
At Bladon C of E Primary School, relationships matter. We are a small, caring Church of England primary school where children are known as individuals and where strong relationships with families are central to helping children flourish.
We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Home-School Link & Inclusion Worker to join our team for 18 hours each week (times and days are flexible). This is a varied and important role, combining family support, pastoral and inclusion work, multi-agency liaison and targeted support for pupils.
What might a day look like?
You might support a child with their emotional wellbeing, meet with a parent who is finding things difficult, complete a Strengths and Needs assessment, visit a family at home, liaise with an alternative provision, contribute to a TAF or CIN meeting and run a targeted intervention with a small group of pupils. You might also be the person who helps a family access the right support or helps a child re-engage with school after a difficult period.
At the heart of all of it is one thing: relationships. We need someone who can build trust with children and families - including when engagement is difficult - while also being able to have sensitive, honest and sometimes challenging conversations.
The role includes
building strong, trusting relationships with pupils, parents and carersproviding practical and pastoral support to families experiencing difficultiescompleting Strengths and Needs assessments and helping families identify appropriate supportcontributing to, and where appropriate coordinating, Team Around the Family (TAF) workattending and contributing to Child in Need (CIN) and other multi-agency meetings under the direction of the DSLhome visits and liaison with external professionals and agenciessupporting pupils accessing alternative provision, including communication, record keeping, visits and due-diligence activitysupporting attendance, engagement and wellbeing for vulnerable pupilsdelivering selected individual and small-group interventionssupporting mental health and wellbeing work alongside our ELSAmaintaining clear, accurate and confidential recordsbeing a consistent, approachable link between home and school
The person we are looking for
Experience matters, but the right person matters even more. You will need warmth, judgement, resilience and the confidence to hold professional boundaries while maintaining relationships.
builds relationships without judgementlistens carefully and helps people feel heardcan have difficult conversations with kindness, clarity and courageunderstands that support sometimes means walking alongside a family and sometimes means appropriate challengeis organised, reliable and follows actions throughworks independently while knowing when to seek advice or escalate a concernunderstands safeguarding, confidentiality and accurate record keepingworks positively with children, families, school staff and external professionalsis deeply committed to inclusion and to helping every child flourishExperience in family support, SEND, Early Help/TAF, education, social care, safeguarding, pastoral work or a related field would be particularly valuable. Training can be provided for specific processes, but strong relational skills and professional judgement are essential.