Family Welfare Officer


Company:	Teaching Vacancies
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Blackburn, BB1 8LH
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	12 Nov 2026
Closing date:	3 Dec 2026

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

• To support pupils in school, community and home settings

• To work with parents and carers to develop parenting skills and deliver parenting training and promote excellent attendance

• To promote children’s wellbeing and emotional and social development and deliver emotional wellbeing training

• To establish positive relationships with pupils and families.

• To establish strategies and support pupils in self-esteem and confidence building activities

• To listen to and help pupils resolve a range of issues that are creating barriers to learning and attendance

• To develop and enhance parental and carers engagement with the school and other agencies

• To visit parents at home to discuss issues and difficulties (particularly linked to attendance issues)

• Advise parents on behaviour strategies and parenting skills.

• To produce reports for reviews and meetings as required (linked to attendance)

• To work collaboratively with professionals from a range of agencies supporting the child and family

• To provide advice regarding referrals to other agencies

• To be a point of contact for both telephone and face to face enquiries, taking messages and making appointments

• To liaise with other primary schools and gain any relevant information on new pupils

• To provide advice and support for pupils returning to school after a long period of absence

• To work with individuals or small groups of pupils

• To attend to pupils’ personal needs including help with emotional, social, welfare, care and health matters

• To liaise with parents and staff regarding pupils’ sickness, injury or pastoral concerns

• To make announced and unannounced home visits

• To organise visits from the school nurse etc and liaise with them as necessary

• To promote positive pupil behaviour in line with school policies and help keep pupils on task

• To understand and apply school policies in relation to health, safety and welfare

• To attend relevant training and take responsibility for own development

• To attend relevant school meetings as required

• To respect confidentiality at all times

The duties above are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within the context of the job, skills and grade.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer:

A high achieving organisation where teamwork is our key to success. Following the recent OFSTED inspection in September 2026 we were judged to be STRONG in ALL AREAS.

• Well behaved, hard-working children

• First class facilities, resources and working environment (with good links to the motorway network)

• A positive, ambitious staff team – with a strong focus on teamwork

• A supportive senior leadership team

• Excellent future prospects due to the school expanding

• CPD opportunities

Leaders provide staff with the time and professional learning opportunities to carry out their roles well. Together, they create ‘professional learning communities’ tasked with putting educational research into practice. Staff share their findings and improve their professional practice accordingly. In turn, staff are enthusiastic about their development, with informal conversations about effective practice being commonplace. Leaders and staff have developed the knowledge and skills that enable them to support other local schools and present at national conferences.

Staff wellbeing and workload are at the forefront of leaders’ and governors’ minds. Consequently, staff feel highly valued and proud to be part of the school community. This directly reflects leaders’ vision for the school. While remaining highly ambitious for pupils and staff, leaders do not lose sight of their role as a community school. Their support for pupils extends to support for their families. Together, leaders, staff and parents ensure that pupils get the help they need to develop essential knowledge, learn about the world around them and thrive at school. Parents value their place in the ‘Lammack family’. OFSTED September 2026.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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