Child and Family Practitioner - REQ004447

Job title and organisation: Child & Family Practitioner - Cockburn Haigh Road Academy
Salary: B1 SCP 4-6 (£25,185 - £25,989) FTE, Actual salary £20,491.00 - £21,145.00
Hours: 35 hours per week TTO plus 5 days
Contract: Fixed Term until 31/08/2026
Location: Haigh Road, Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26 0NQ
Closing Date and Time: Friday 12 December 2025
Accountable to: Head Teacher

Purpose of Role:

The Child and Family Practitioner will be committed to raising standards and using recognised as well as innovative ways to support young people and/or their families and carers. The successful candidate will play a significant role in contributing to the vision and the achievements of the school. The addition of attendance responsibilities to this role, widens the scope to influence positive outcomes for children and young people.

Accountable to The Headteacher, the Child and Family Practitioner will be a key link between home and school, identifying and building sound relationships with our young people and families who most need additional support.

Main Duties:

Support the School Designated Safeguarding Lead in discharging their statutory duties. This will include, but not be exclusive to, attending meetings led by external professionals, following up cause for concerns, taking actions as identified on Child in Need and Child Protection Plans.
Provide high quality, well planned interventions in both the education and home setting, to young people and their families in order to promote high expectations, raise aspirations and facilitate academic progress.
Work collaboratively with other staff, acting as a liaison between families, young people and school.
With a focus upon the vulnerable and targeted, offer an early intervention service to prevent need escalating, by impowering individuals to overcome challenges associated with education. For example, attendance at school, social, emotional and mental health issues, behaviour, anger management, drug and/or alcohol misuse, domestic violence, financial management in the home and parenting skills.
Where necessary work in an integrated way with a wide range of partners to address extensive multiple needs.
Gather and organise information from a range of sources and analyse this to assess need.
Maintain high quality and accurate records of work and supply data and other monitoring and evaluation information required within set time scales and targets.
Make quick decisions, use initiative and work unsupervised and be adaptable to different work situations.
Support the Senior Administrator in ensuring the effective running of the school office.
Assist in the preparation and presentation of written reports as and when required.
Be persuasive and to negotiate with a range of stakeholders (i.e. families and partner agencies) to secure their commitment to working in partnership.
Manage a personal case load, including managing own time effectively whilst meeting deadlines, both internal and external
Adapt to meet the challenges of rapid change.
Lead early help assessment, filing paperwork as dictated by local and national guidelines.
Keep up to date with a working knowledge of national legislation and local policy to improve outcomes for children and young people.
Have a working knowledge of local practice and process to facilitate the achievement of improved outcomes (i.e. think family, work family and early help).
Understand the need to be responsive to culturally diverse groups and communities.
Maintain a knowledge and understanding of working together practice and process to safeguard children and of Leeds Safeguarding Children’s Board Procedures.

For further information and to apply for this job, please click here:

https://mynewterm.com/jobs/147271/EDV-2025-CHRA-04864

You must be fully committed to optimising the opportunities that are available to children and young people, secure in the knowledge that you will be joining an ambitious, forward-thinking Academy Trust that sets the standards for our family of schools and academies.

The school is committed to safeguardingthe welfare of children, and applicants will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

This post expects the successful candidate to safeguard the welfare of CYP and uphold your professional responsibility.

This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK-either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.

The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.

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