Family Liaison Officer

The role is to work with the Pastoral Team and Vice Principal (DSL) to reduce persistent absence; ensure that every pupil identified as persistently absent has a pastoral support plan that clearly details the actions, targets and review dates to be achieved in reducing a pupil's absence within an agreed time scale.

You will provide information to parents/carers of pupils who are persistently absent about the current education/labor market so that a clear understanding of why attendance is important is achieved, support the Pastoral team with administration and recording of behaviour and safeguarding information, use and contribute to the School Information Management system to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and review of attendance data and behaviour, support the pastoral team in developing a framework with local primary schools to pro-actively reduce persistent absence before they attend secondary school.

You will identify personal issues that are affecting pupils' performance at school and share this information with relevant staff in order to help the student maintain curriculum progress. To work with the SENDCo to coordinate EHCP Annual reviews and provide additional admin support as required.

To undertake training and act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.

To be the first point of contact for any parent/carer who has an issue with regard to attendance and safeguarding.

To get to know the families and young people and be proactive in dealing with any barrier to learning before it happens.

To have an up-to-date picture of every identified young person at the academy and keep up to date with any issue relating to a young person's educational experience.

To liaise with any other academy teams as necessary, to inform them of any issues that relate to the service they offer for any identified young people and monitor the process to ensure the correct strategies are in place.

To ensure that all parents/carers are communicated with using as many appropriate mediums as possible.

To ensure compliance with the academy data collection and protection policy and associated legislation.

To identify any concerns, such as child protection issues, to the Designated Safeguarding Lead/Vice Principal when appropriate work closely with the VP/AVP/SENDCo Pastoral Team and other staff to ensure effective administration of the Academy's Safeguarding Policy and strategy.

To work with VP/AVP to provide a safe and effective learning support as required.

To support the Vice Principal with a schedule of academy outreach sessions and methods; this to be presented to the Vice Principal with a view to on-going implementation.

To maintain the contact log and file for every young person.

To identify and contribute to best practice, both internally and externally, in home/school liaison.

To ensure meetings take place half termly with other Family Liaison Officers within Authentic Education to share practice and develop/implement proposal for whole academy activities.

To support the Senior Leadership Team with induction for young people who join the academy in-year and conduct exit interviews for young people moving to another school.

To liaise with colleagues leading on internal and external transition.

To co-ordinate the collection of work for young people not in attendance at the academy as a result of exclusion or young term illness.

To be responsible for arranging and minute taking for EHCP Annual Reviews.

Provide additional administration support to the SENDCo.

To be support Senior Leadership Team with the recording and administration of Pupil Consultations received from the Local Authority.