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Pathfinder Early Help Practitioner
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Excelsior Multi Academy Trust,
Are you passionate about helping children and their families? Can you make a difference? We need you! We are looking for an experienced Family Support Worker to work with Birmingham Pathfinder based in Highters Heath Community School.
About Us
Highters Heath is based in Warstock in Birmingham in an area of high deprivation. It is a wonderful school full of wonderful people who all work together to achieve the very best outcomes for our children and families. Highters Heath has been on a journey of rapid school improvement and is a lovely place to work so if you are highly motivated and passionate about achieving the very best for pupils, we would like to hear from you!
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As the Pathfinder Early Help Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and guiding our students towards achieving their full potential. The core purpose of the role is to work within the Pathfinder Early Help approach, with the support and supervision of a Pathfinder Coordinator and, alongside teachers and wider pastoral team in schools, addressing the needs of children and their families who need help to overcome barriers to learning both inside and outside the school, in order to flourish.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with teachers/co-ordinators and SLT to devise and implement targeted interventions.
- Hold a current DSL certificate or be committed to obtaining this.
- Have a firm knowledge of safeguarding and the various agencies that can support children and families.
- Have experience of leading successful Early Help Plans.
- Build strong relationships with students, parents, and carers to provide the best possible support to enable them to flourish.
- Demonstrate highly effective communication, interpersonal skills and be computer literate.
- Have proven organisational skills and be able to be responsible for their own work patterns.
- Be a team player with a great sense of humour.
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