Education Welfare Officer
Great Yarmouth Charter Academy, Great Yarmouth, NR30 4LSThis 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.
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.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Great Yarmouth Charter Academy
- School type
- Free School, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 941 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Great Yarmouth Charter Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@inspirationtrust.org
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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