Family Engagement Officer - Baglan, United Kingdom - Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council

Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
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Baglan, United Kingdom

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Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ02586
Date posted

  • 09/02/2024
Application closing date

  • 26/02/2024
Location

  • Baglan Education & Training Centre
Salary
- £28,770 - £31,364 per annum

Package

  • Hybrid Working Arrangements (with the option to work remotely) together with a generous holiday entitlement and other flexible working options available.
Contractual hours

  • 37
Basis

  • Full time
Job category/type

  • Education and Schools

Family Engagement Officer:

Job description

Temporary to 31/03/2025

Full time 37.00 hours per week

Secondment opportunity but must have agreement from current manager.


We are seeking to appoint a Family Engagement Workers for the Community Focussed Schools Initiative to start as soon as possible.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of engagement workers to support schools in developing family engagement, community engagement and multi-agency working, through a cluster approach.

Effective community focused schools provision reflects the needs of their children, families and communities they serve.

This project will focus on one secondary school and its cluster primaries, finding out the needs of all stakeholder, shaping community based learning and working with our most hard to reach families.

The project manager will lead a team of four engagement officers, and work within the school improvement service within the authority.


  • Ability to promote meaningful and productive relationships with families.
  • Ability to develop partnerships that serve community and learner needs.
  • Ability to support the alignment of integrated services to support our most vulnerable families
  • Good Microsoft Office skills essential such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external clients, both verbally and in writing, with the confidence to engage with a variety of people (pupil, families, colleagues and stakeholders alike) and the aptitude to rationally explain, explore and discuss technical issues and capture feedback
  • Enthusiastic, hardworking, with ambition and drive
  • Ability to structure and prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole
  • Ability to work in a team and independently without losing initiative and focus.
The support the delivery of the Community Focussed Schools Project within NPT.

This will involve working as part of team of professionals to help develop a framework to support schools in developing family engagement, community engagement and multi-agency working, through a cluster approach.


  • To promote meaningful and productive relationships with families.
  • To develop partnerships that serve community and learner needs.
  • To support the alignment of integrated services to support our most vulnerable families
Effective community focused schools provision reflects the needs of their children, families and communities they serve.

This project will focus on one secondary school and its cluster primaries, finding out the needs of all stakeholder, shaping community based learning and working with our most hard to reach families.

The project manager will lead a team of four engagement officers, and work within the school improvement service within the authority.

Main Responsibilities

  • Engage with schools, through a cluster approach, to develop a shared understanding of effective parental engagement, sharing research and supporting them to develop their own vision for effective working.
  • Conduct and participate in regular team meetings and develop effective lines of communication.
  • Develop strong relationships with children and young people, parents/carers and school staff to understand their views and experiences. Effectively develop and manage these partnerships with all stakeholders throughout the CFS Project.
  • Assist in developing and delivering training, presentations to all partners in the project on the importance of the impact in engaging effectively with parent to improve pupils' outcome
  • Assist in preparing reports to the local steering group on project progress and insight
  • Work collaboratively with the relevant departments within the Local Authority to share good practice and problem solve issues identified.
  • To be responsible for the delivery of the parental engagement and child poverty work, this will involve working with local partners, including project management, professional networks and inservice training.
  • Developing plans to support activities with schools and ensuring that work undertaken generates the learning and evidence required,.
  • To carry out data, research and evaluation tasks to support the generation of the evidence and learning required to fulfil the national change strategy, including responsibility for the high quality implementation of agreed monitoring and evaluation activity. (Professional Learning Networks)
  • To support influencing for local and national change, and sharing of our learning, including supporting the creation
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