- Tosupport pupils in school, community and home settings
- Towork with parents and carers to develop parenting skills and deliverparenting training and promote excellent attendance
- Topromote children’s wellbeing and emotional and social development and deliveremotional wellbeing training
- Toestablish positive relationships with pupils and families.
- Toestablish strategies and support pupils in self-esteem and confidencebuilding activities
- Tolisten to and help pupils resolve a range of issues that are creatingbarriers to learning and attendance
- Todevelop and enhance parental and carers engagement with the school and otheragencies
- Tovisit parents at home to discuss issues and difficulties (particularly linkedto attendance issues)
- Adviseparents on behaviour strategies and parenting skills.
- Toproduce reports for reviews and meetings as required (linked to attendance)
- Towork collaboratively with professionals from a range of agencies supportingthe child and family
- Toprovide advice regarding referrals to other agencies
- Tobe a point of contact for both telephone and face to face enquiries, takingmessages and making appointments
- Toliaise with other primary schools and gain any relevant information on newpupils
- Toprovide advice and support for pupils returning to school after a long periodof absence
- Towork with individuals or small groups of pupils
- Toattend to pupils’ personal needs including help with emotional, social,welfare, care and health matters
- Toliaise with parents and staff regarding pupils’ sickness, injury or pastoralconcerns
- Tomake announced and unannounced home visits
- Toorganise visits from the school nurse etc and liaise with them as necessary
- Topromote positive pupil behaviour in line with school policies and help keeppupils on task
- Tounderstand and apply school policies in relation to health, safety andwelfare
- Toattend relevant training and take responsibility for own development
- Toattend relevant school meetings as required
- Torespect confidentiality at all times
The dutiesabove are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may berequired by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within thecontext of the job, skills and grade.
Family Welfare Officer employer: Lammack Primary School
Lammack Primary School offers a supportive work environment focused on pupil wellbeing and family engagement. Employees have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on children's lives through various roles that promote emotional and social development. The school values collaboration with families and external agencies, fostering professional growth and community involvement.
