Home School Liaison Worker

Role Overview & Responsibilities

King’s Hedges Educational Federation
Northfield Avenue
Cambridge
CB4 2HU
Tel: 01223 518330
Head Teacher: Miss S Merritt

Excellence Achieved Through Care, Creativity and Challenge

Are you ready to join a highly motivated and skilled team? Do you want to work in a vibrant and fast paced environment? Are you committed to safeguarding and improving the lives of children and young people? If so, we are the right school for you!

• We need: a Home/School Liaison worker
• To start: As soon as possible
• Pay Scale: NJC point 7, £22,369 FTE Actual salary £8,024.93 pa
• Hours: 16 hours per week or can be flexible
• Contract: Fixed term, term time only
• Times: 3 days per week; days and hours are negotiable but need to be during the school core hours 08:00-16:00. Also flexibility in changing them when required. Term time only.

We wish to appoint a dedicated, hard-working and motivated home school liaison worker. The contract will be term time only, fixed term, ending 30th April 2024.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
To plan, promote and deliver group work and courses for parents and carers, including evidence based parenting programmes.
To do direct work with families to embrace the changes necessary to improve the life chances of the children and promote effective parenting strategies.
To promote and facilitate parental understanding of the child’s needs and factors impacting on them.

Please come and visit us, it is the only way to truly realise how special we are. We received an overall ‘Good’ rating from Ofsted in January 2019.

Please contact Mrs Miller, Tel 01223 518330
to arrange a visit and for the application pack or you can download the application pack from our website: www.kingshedgesprimary.org.uk

We do offer subsidised before and after school care if children attend Kings Hedges Education School

Kings Hedges Education Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in our care.
All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.

Before you proceed with your intention to apply for a position or to support us please take full consideration of the following points.

• All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, including a Barred List check where applicable to the role. Where you have been shortlisted for a role, you will be required to complete a Declaration of Offences Form, disclosing all relevant previous criminal convictions and cautions. Please contact the Head teacher to discuss this step further if you wish.
• If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, we will carry out an online search against you, for information that is publicly available online and usually before interview. This will include social media accounts you may hold.
• We will assess your knowledge of safeguarding by asking specific questions about this area of our role during the interview process and your answer to this question will form part of our decision-making process.
• You will be provided with an induction process, and you are expected to engage with this monitored process.
• Our safeguarding policies and procedures will be explained during your induction and on a regular basis.
• Kings Hedges complies the Childcare Act 2006 and the Childcare (Disqualification) and childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) (Amendment) Regulations 208. All shortlisted candidates whose role will involve the responsibility for the provision or management of such childcare (including teaching) shall be required to declare that they are not disqualified from undertaking such work.
• Application forms must be completed in full. Please pay particular attention to your work history and inform us of any gaps in employment. CVs will only be accepted alongside a completed application form.
• Please ensure you state full details of your qualifications.
• References may be taken up prior to interviews and any discrepancies will be addressed during the interview process.

Closing date – 24th May 2023, 9:00am
Interview date – TBC

Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Part-time hours: 16 per week

Salary: From £8,024.93 per year

Benefits:

• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 24/05/2023
Reference ID: SM24052023TM