Family Support Worker

Family Support Worker

Permanent, Full Time, Term Time, 41 hours per week

Start Date: August 2026

Job ref: FSW25-26

Grade 7, Scale Points 19 – 22 (Actual Salary: £35,814pa)

FTE £36,888 - £39,816

41 hours per week, Term Time, plus 1 week Holiday hours, plus 3 Professional Learning Days (39.6 weeks per year)

Monday to Wednesday – 8:00am to 5.00pm

Thursday – 8.00am - 4.30pm

Friday – 8:00am – 4pm (with 30mins lunch daily)

Plus 2 hours per week to be worked flexibly, as required by the department

We are looking to recruit a Family Support Worker to join our passionate and progressive Inclusion Team, to work in conjunction with the senior leadership team to improve the attendance and engagement of targeted students by providing focused practical and emotional support to those with students and families with complex needs.

 We are looking to appoint a positive and enthusiastic person to join our highly supportive and growing team, who wants to work in a school where:

• strong, positive relationships are a strength of the school;

• all of our students are taught in mainstream lessons which allows them to thrive in a positive and productive learning environment;

• students of all ages and abilities readily demonstrate an eagerness to learn and make progress across the curriculum;

• outstanding behaviour is apparent throughout the school; students are polite, open and articulate, making it a pleasure to engage with them in lessons;

• professional Learning is a priority and time for this is integrated into the school day;

• all students, teachers and parents share a common vision to "make a positive difference".

The Family Support Worker role involves building trusting professional relationships with the hardest to reach students and targeted families in order for them to overcome any challenges they face and with a view to re-engaging them with their education and break down barriers to attendance, engagement and to empower parents to support students at home and by maintaining contact with the most vulnerable students during non-term time; make phone calls, check ins, drop ins, home visits as necessary. The successful candidate should be able to engage, motivate and support children, staff and parents.

Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.

‘This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this post, please read the Applicant pack for instructions.

Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:

• Applicant Pack

• Job Description

• Application and Recruitment Process document

Closing Date: Wednesday 3rd  June 2026 12pm

Interview Date: W/c Monday 8th June 2026

Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:

• safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

• equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms

NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE

If we have not contacted you within 4 weeks of the closing date, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful