Early help and Student Wellbeing Lead

Barclay Academy, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3RB

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  13 July 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 28,598 - £31,022, (Scale 5, point 12 – 17) pro rata, based on agreed working pattern

Early help and Student Wellbeing Lead job summary

This position can either be a full-time or part-time role.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

To support the wellbeing, personal development, and safeguarding of students across the academy by delivering early intervention, coordinating support for families, and promoting positive mental health. This role focuses on preventing escalation of issues and ensuring all students have the support they need to thrive.

STAFF BENEFITS:

Future Academies recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success. To demonstrate this all staff are offered the following benefits:

A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues

Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression

Employer Contributions to Local Government or Teachers Pension Scheme

Mintago – employee benefits platform

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to a Virtual GP

Eye Care Voucher scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Partnership with YellowNest - Salary sacrifice childcare

For further information regarding our staff benefits, please visit our website.

Please refer to the recruitment pack attached for the full person specification

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 Barclay Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 992 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Barclay Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/barclay-academy

Barclay Academy sits in the beautiful Historic Old Town in Stevenage. We have strong transport links in the town including a 20 minute commute into London.
The school’s main aim is to develop our students’ potential to the full and to help them grow into successful, caring and respectful young people. In order to achieve this, Barclay provides a safe, supportive environment within which student’s academic, cultural and emotional needs are met. The school motto – “Believe, Achieve, Exceed” – underlines the opportunities for all members of the Barclay community.
There is outstanding pastoral support so that our students are able to engage with the curriculum, make progress and enjoy what the school has to offer.
The Academy is growing strongly once more, but we still endeavour to meet the needs of children here as individuals. We are ambitious and set ourselves challenging objectives. This is an exciting time for Barclay as we have rapidly improved the quality of teaching and learning. Our dedicated and hardworking staff team have a real commitment to ensuring that students have the opportunity to make progress and enjoy success.
We set high expectations and, as a result, our students are smart, well behaved and respectful. Students have many opportunities for enrichment, both in school and through a range of educational visits, to enhance their learning in the classroom. We look forward to welcoming you to the Barclay Academy to see us at first hand.

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