Education Welfare Officer

Langwith Bassett Primary Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG20 9RD

25 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 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: £29,102.00 - £31,255.00 Annually (Actual) Band G Point 19-23 (Full-time salary equivalent £32,031 - £34,434) 37hrs term-time plus 10 days

Education Welfare Officer job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an Education Welfare Officer, to join an existing EWO team who collectively, cover all ACET academies. This post-holder will work as part of that team, with responsibility for supporting our academies in the Temple Normanton and Langwith Bassett to ensure all children and young people access school regularly, whilst also contributing to all aspects of safeguarding, including child protection.

The successful candidate will liaise with national and local bodies to ensure ACET meets all regulatory and statutory obligations whilst proactively monitoring national and local initiatives to advise the trust on current and future developments.

Working 37 hours per week, term time plus 10 working days during the school holidays/negotiated term time. Term time includes working 2 out of 5 INSET days each academic year as directed by the school, with availability to work any or all of the remaining 3 INSET days at short notice should the need arise, and for which additional payment will be made.

The role will also include providing general support in the management of pupils both in the classroom and during lunchtime provision.

The successful candidate will:

Have significant experience of working with children and/or families

Have experience of inter-agency working to support children and/or families

Have working knowledge of child protection / safeguarding of children and young people

Be able to work independently and with initiative

Be able to deal with sensitive issues with diplomacy and tact

Have a pragmatic approach

Have good communication skills

Be energetic, well-motivated and flexible

Have a professional manner and plenty of common sense

Be educated to GCSE standard or equivalent

Safeguarding

ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.

We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.

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

At Langwith Bassett Junior Academy we all work incredibly hard to make sure our school is a welcoming place for the whole school community, where children’s wellbeing and safety is prioritised, always.

Langwith Bassett Junior Academy has policies and procedures in place to deal effectively with child protection and safeguarding issues. To provide a safe environment for young people, our selection and recruitment processes include all statutory checks on staff, governors and regular volunteers including enhanced DBS, (disclosure and barring service), checks.

All staff are trained at a level appropriate to their safeguarding responsibilities:

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 Langwith Bassett Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 123 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Langwith Bassett Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/langwith-bassett-junior-academy

We are a caring, dedicated and enthusiastic team that is committed to children's well-being, achieving high standards and providing the very best opportunities for all in our care. We believe that every child matters and work hard to create an environment here that nurtures independence, resilience and a desire to learn.

Together, through a creative and varied curriculum, we strive to ensure that each child reaches their potential. All children have talents and abilities to celebrate, and our role is to prepare children for future education; and to help them acquire the skills and enthusiasm needed to embrace the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Langwith Bassett Junior Academy is proud to be part of Aston Community Education Trust (ACET), established in 2011 when Aston Comprehensive School converted to an Academy. Our trust and academies have a firmly established ethos based on integrity and respect together with an embedded belief in the right of each pupil to receive a high quality academic and social education that gives them the best possible start for their future career choices.

At ACET we are committed to providing the highest quality teaching and learning enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

We are proud of the diversity that can be seen across our family of schools and the recognition that we are all striving for the same goal - to be our best. We believe that every person is unique and we work together in an inclusive environment of mutual respect and consideration, valuing everyone’s contribution.

Through our partnership with the local and wider community, we aim to support our young people in successfully making a positive contribution and giving something back to the community.

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