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Family Liaison Officer
Airedale Academy
Source: UK Teaching Vacancies API · original listing ↗
Posted 3 days ago
About this role
You will: • Promote excellent levels of attendance across the Academy. • Work alongside the Education Welfare Officer, Attendance Administrators, Family Liaison Officers and Senior Leaders to implement Academy wide attendance strategies. • Engage with parents/carers and families via home visits or on-site visits to explore and offer support to improve pupil attendance. • Support and challenge both pupils and their families to improve their attendance. • Contribute to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of pupils who attend the Academy. • Liaise with external agencies, to support pupils and their families to improve attendance. You will be: • A confident and effective communicatior. • Relentless in your drive to improve attendance, thinking outside of the box to develop attendance initiatives, working in partnership with other colleagues and stakeholders where appropriate. • Experienced in working with families with complex needs. • Excellent in literacy, numeracy and IT skills. • A great problem solver with proven organisational and time management skills. • Able to deal with emotion packed situations in a calm and professional manner. • Able to relate well to both children and adults. • Flexible and adaptable with a "can-do" attitude. As a valued colleague within our Trust, you can expect: • Unwavering support and a culture of collaboration: you will benefit from exceptional support from our executive leaders, leadership teams and dedicated Trust specialists across key areas including curriculum development, safeguarding, inclusion, governance, HR, finance, estates, IT and compliance. At Castleford Trust collaboration is at the heart of everything we do - your success is our shared success. • Wellbeing and Community: from Day 1 your wellbeing matters to us. You will have access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family members. Throughout our local community you will be able to join local fitness and swimming facilities at a discounted rate, and each year be able to take advantage of our onsite health checks. We regularly review and update our services to meet the needs of colleagues at all stages in their life and careers. • Working together to achieve excellence for all: all the academies within the Trust have a strong moral purpose and seek to have a positive impact on the communities that they serve and to support families to overcome any social disadvantage. We are deeply committed to our values of Care, Aspire and Succeed and have very high expectations and aspirations for pupils and colleagues alike. Closing date for Applications: Providing suitable interest, the closing date for applications is 8.00 am on Monday 23rd November 2026 with interviews taking place shortly afterwards. References: References will be taken up shortly after shortlisting and prior to interview using the contact details you supply on your application. Equal Opportunities: Castleford Trust is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnership. Castleford Trust welcomes applications from anyone who meets the criteria for the role. All completed application forms should be submitted through the My New Term Portal https://mynewterm.com/candidate-registration For further information on the school, please visit www.airedaleacademy.com or telephone Nikky York, Head of HR (Airedale Hub) or the HR team on 01977 664555 to arrange a visit.