Ranelagh Primary School Address: Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 0AN Salary: £28,986 pro rata Hours: 32.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year Contract: Permanent. Required as soon as possible Reference: 8605 Ranelagh Primary School is looking for a driven and dedicated Family Support Assistant with sound knowledge and experience of supporting families with attendance and safeguarding. You will be working as part of a supportive team, as well as the wider school, in a main role as attendance officer who is responsible for monitoring, recording and improving student attendance rates. Alongside this, as an ADSL, you will support the DSL with monitoring and impacting on school safeguarding. You will: provide high quality and responsive health, welfare and safeguarding services for all students support attendance, retention and achievement strategies by providing high quality pro-active welfare and wellbeing support to individual students and groups liaise with external agencies to ensure students receive the best possible support in order for them to achieve their full potential contribute to and co-ordinate specialist support where required, including attending any meetings related to the attendance or safeguarding aspects of the role assist the Deputy Head in the delivery of attendance support assist the Assistant Head/DSL in the role as an ADSL. Main duties and responsibilities: to act as the first response Safeguarding contact, operating rapid response to all safeguarding concerns and maintaining effective cover across the school to maintain and record accurate information using the appropriate school systems i.e. CPOMS, Arbor etc to assist in the promotion and raising awareness of safeguarding, prevent and wellbeing support and procedures for students to liaise with outside agencies as appropriate in the protection of vulnerable young people and adults and promote and maintain links with network agencies to create safety plans, where appropriate, for students to provide initial support and advice to individuals identified as being “at risk” to provide, on a one to one and group basis, high quality wellbeing themed interventions that encourage learners to engage to support future success and progression to measure the impact of support to evaluate effectiveness, inform continual development and target student issues to understand barriers to learning and support learners to overcome these by developing innovative practice and delivering a consistently outstanding service to maintain accurate records of all interventions and student information on the safeguarding database to manage a flexible caseload of students, prioritising those with complex needs and safeguarding concerns to be a key member of the Safeguarding Team as an ADSL to attend regular caseload reviews to ensure student needs are being met. We will offer you: a dedicated, supportive and friendly team of professional colleagues and governors friendly, energetic pupils who are keen to learn and appreciate the support that they are given a school that values your commitment to helping children achieve and will support your professional development ongoing training and a supportive attitude towards career development a dedicated DSL and safeguarding team of ADSLs a dedicated Attendance Champion a dedicated SENDCO and Inclusion team (including ELSA) rigorous processes to promote safety and wellbeing of all children and staff. To find out more Please read the Job Description (word) for the full criteria and the Application Guidance (word) We actively encourage applicants to see our school in action before applying for vacancies. If this post is of interest to you and you would like to find out more information and have a tour of the school, please call the school office on 01473 251608 or email kiera.ofarrell@ranelagh.suffolk.sch.uk including your full name and the job title in the subject line. How to apply To apply, please complete the official Application Form (word) Please email your completed application form to kiera.ofarrell@ranelagh.sufolk.sch.uk or by post to Ranelagh Primary School Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 0AN. Closing date: 12 pm, 7 April 2026. Interview date: 14 April 2026. Ranelagh Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check with children’s barred list information. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; applicants must declare all unspent convictions and some spent convictions. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be carried out on shortlisted candidates as part of our safer recruitment checks.