Academic Support Officer (Alternative Provision)
Saint Gabriel's College, London, SW9 6UL27 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026 or sooner
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC SO1, points 27 to 29, pro rata , Term-time only
Additional allowances
NJC SO1, points 27 to 29, pro rata , Term-time only
Academic Support Officer (Alternative Provision) job summary
About the Role
The Academic Support Officer is directly accountable to the Academic Lead Teacher and plays a key role in supporting students at the Edward Brooke Centre. This role ensures students have access to the full curriculum, promotes positive behaviour, and supports reintegration into mainstream education, while sustaining the school’s ethos of inclusivity and academic excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Support students’ literacy, numeracy, and core skills to enable access to the curriculum.
- Establish and maintain positive routines and adherence to school expectations.
- Track student attendance and performance, identifying underachievement and implementing interventions.
- Maintain behaviour systems and create a positive learning environment aligned with the Christian ethos.
- Develop and implement strategies to remove barriers to student achievement.
- Support onboarding for admissions and reintegration programmes.
- Lead collective worship and promote the school’s Christian ethos.
- Safeguard students’ health, safety, and wellbeing.
- Engage parents and external agencies to support student success.
- Encourage participation in extracurricular activities and maintain effective academic support systems.
Qualifications
Required:
- Degree or equivalent, ideally with behavioural science or psychology components.
Desirable:
- Teaching qualification
- Postgraduate qualification (e.g., NPQ)
- Evidence of ongoing professional development, including Level 3 Safeguarding
Experience
Required:
- Experience supporting students academically and behaviourally in a school or similar setting
- Experience tracking performance and implementing interventions
- Safeguarding certification
Desirable:
- Experience in delivering high-quality education
- Evidence of measurable improvements in student outcomes
- Experience designing and delivering student support programmes
Contract: This is a full-time, permanent position.
Start date: January 2026 or sooner
If you think, you have the skills, experience, and passion that we need, please do apply
How to apply:
If you think you have the skills, experience, and passion that we need, please do apply.
An application form is provided with the online advertisement or can be obtained from recruitment@saintgabrielscollege.org.
Closing date: Completed applications should be submitted by 12 noon, Monday 3rd November 2025, your personal statement should be no more than two pages.
Interviews: Week commencing 3rd November 2025
We would love you to come to visit our school - Please contact 0207 7933901/ recruitment@saintgabrielscollege.org.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the future of Saint Gabriel’s College, ensuring every student achieves their potential in a safe, inclusive, and inspiring environment.
Child safeguarding statement
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of our students and we expect all Governors, Staff, Volunteers and Contractors to demonstrate the same commitment.
Saint Gabriel’s College and the Southwark Diocese Board of Education are committed to positively addressing discrimination in all forms and that all sectors of the community have fair and equal access and experience within employment. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds and communities, particularly those underrepresented in our workforce.
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Saint Gabriel's College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 594 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Saint Gabriel's College website
Saint Gabriel’s College is a small inclusive Church of England secondary school where every member of the community is valued. All our students are encouraged to achieve excellence by working hard, continuously improving, growing spiritually and thinking of others.
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