Attendance and Welfare Officer

Selly Oak Trust School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B29 6HZ

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  27 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 November 2026

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: £29,024.00 - £36,619.00 Annually (Actual) Selly Oak Payscale range - Band C/D Points 28-38

Attendance and Welfare Officer job summary

As our Attendance & Welfare Officer, you will play a vital role in ensuring that every student has the opportunity to belong, achieve and thrive. Working closely with students, families, school staff and external agencies, you will lead on all aspects of attendance, punctuality and welfare, helping to remove barriers that prevent young people from engaging successfully with education.

This is a highly rewarding role within our specialist SEN setting, where building positive and trusting relationships is at the heart of everything we do. You will use attendance data to identify concerns, implement targeted interventions, conduct home and welfare visits, coordinate attendance meetings and support families to access the help they need.

You will also work alongside safeguarding colleagues and external professionals to ensure pupils receive the right support, recognising that attendance concerns can often be linked to wider social, emotional or safeguarding needs.

The successful candidate will be a proactive and compassionate professional with excellent communication and organisational skills, able to balance challenge and support while maintaining a relentless focus on improving outcomes for children and young people. Every interaction should reflect our commitment to helping students overcome barriers, engage positively with school life and reach their full potential

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Selly Oak Trust School

• Organisation type: Special school, ages 11 to 19
• Size: 400 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Selly Oak Trust School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/selly-oak-trust-school

Selly Oak Trust School is a unique and welcoming school where hopes and dreams come to life through the ethos and vision of the Headteacher and Governors. We are a relationships first, caring community who put staff and student well-being at the heart of everything we do. We are not just a special school, we are a very special school.

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