Location: High Wycombe
Overview
Do you love building strong relationships, connecting families to helpful services, and bringing a community together?
Join our school as a part-time Parent Ambassador and make a real difference for local parents, carers and SEN children.
Why this role matters:
You’ll be the friendly, trusted link between families, the school and local support services helping parents access resources, strengthening home-school relationships, and creating warm, welcoming opportunities for families to connect.
You’ll be knowledgeable about the facilities and resources available for families in need especially for those with special educational needs
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time – 12 hours per week
Closing Date: 20 th April 2026
Interviews: 27 th April 2026
About us
Chiltern Wood School is a Special School currently supporting over 200 students ranging from ages 3 to 19 years, located across three sites in Cressex, Downley and Studley Green. We offer the opportunity to become part of a team of caring professionals, contributing purposefully to meeting the special educational needs of children in the High Wycombe area. You will be well supported by welcoming and knowledgeable staff within a well-run, hard-working school which holds as its core value the wellbeing of its pupils, parents and staff.
12 hours per week, flexible scheduling to suit school activities and community needs.
Based at the school with community/home visits as required.
What you’ll do:
* Work directly with families in the community, at school and—when appropriate—in homes to strengthen relationships between parents/carers, children and the school.
* Establish positive, confidential relationships with families and act as a regular, reliable point of contact.
* Proactively signpost families to appropriate community and external services and encourage access to SEN resources.
* Create, advertise and coordinate an annual calendar of family-focused events: coffee mornings, workshops, information sessions and social events with partner agencies.
* Coordinate and lead weekly Parent Volunteers: plan activities, supervise volunteers and maintain accurate records.
* To keep up to date with SEN resources, charities and support available for our families
* Provide clear information and signposting to parents at the start of each day.
Further detail can be found within the Job Description.
About you
Who we’re looking for:
* Confident, resourceful and discreet — able to handle sensitive information with high confidentiality.
* Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust quickly.
* Organised and proactive: able to plan events, manage volunteers and keep accurate records.
* Experienced working with parents, carers or community services (school or community setting preferred).
* Experience and knowledge of SEN and what might be available to families in need.
* Comfortable liaising with partner organisations and external agencies.
For further information please see attached Person specification.
Other information
Join us and become the heart of our family support network — helping parents thrive, children succeed, and our school community grow.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
* All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
* All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
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