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Education Welfare Officer

Great Yarmouth Charter Academy, Great Yarmouth, NR30 4LS

This job expired on 16 June 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  16 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale G: £29,187 to £31,188 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£30,559 - £32,654 full time/full year equivalent)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications: • First degree or NVQ Level 4 in social work, teaching, counselling, psychology or youth and community work or other work related to work with children and/or relevant experience • Willingness and ability to obtain and/or enhance qualifications and training for development in the post • Training on safeguarding • Evidence of continuous professional development and training

Experience: • Experience of using social work or counselling approach to working with parents and children • Experience of accurate record keeping • Experience of report writing

Professional Skills and Attributes: • Knowledge of school systems and pastoral systems • Knowledge of different approaches to working with parents of disaffected students • Knowledge of positive approaches to empowering and enabling students and parents / carers to help themselves • Ability to undertake assessments and write reports to a high standard • Knowledge of the legislative framework that underpins the work of supporting families and schools, including attendance and behaviour • Knowledge of safeguarding principles and legislation • Highly developed organisational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload • Excellent negotiating skills • Ability to work individually or as part of a team • A strong commitment to the Trust values and ethos • Commitment to support the Trust’s agenda for safeguarding and equality and diversity • A flexible approach and strong work ethic

What the school offers its staff

The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.

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.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Job-Description.pdf - 400 KB (opens in new tab)

Recruitment Pack.pdf - 1.36 MB (opens in new tab)

About Great Yarmouth Charter Academy

• School type: Free School, Christian, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 895 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Great Yarmouth Charter Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@inspirationtrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-yarmouth-charter-academy

Great Yarmouth Charter Academy is a secondary school with a new name and a long history in the borough. We can trace our roots back to 1551 but are forging a new path for secondary education in our great town.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools in East Anglia, and work particularly closely with our sister schools in the borough.

Arranging a visit to Great Yarmouth Charter Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.

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