Education Welfare Officer
North Durham Academy, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 0TWThis job expired on 3 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
November 2024
Closing date
3 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,184.00 - £19,093.00 Annually (Actual) Actual Salary pro rata based on working 3 days per week is £17,184 - £19,093.
Education Welfare Officer job summary
Location: North Durham Academy
Hours: Part-time, 3 days per week
Grade: Grade 5 Actual Salary based on working term time plus 1 week 3 days per week - £17,184 - £19,093
Reporting to: Assistant Headteacher
North Durham Academy is seeking a committed and proactive Education Welfare Officer to join our team. This is a part-time role, working three days per week, where you will play a vital role in supporting our Senior Leadership Team in enhancing student attendance and engagement.
In this role, you will lead the implementation of our school’s attendance and punctuality policies, developing and executing strategies each term to reduce persistent absence (PA) and evaluating their effectiveness. You will ensure compliance with statutory requirements related to attendance, safeguarding, and home visits. Working closely with the Local Authority, you will follow procedures when children go missing from education, adhering to all school and Local Authority guidelines.
You will contribute to inclusion and attendance meetings, developing tailored support plans for students facing attendance challenges. Organising and leading attendance panels or fast-track meetings will also be a key aspect of the role, ensuring effective follow-up actions. Engaging with parents and carers will be crucial, as you identify attendance barriers and work collaboratively to implement solutions, including conducting home visits and maintaining regular communication. Additionally, you will assist with processes related to admissions, exclusions, and elective home education.
Collaboration with other agencies will be necessary to safeguard students and develop effective support programs. You will attend multi-agency and child protection meetings as required and may need to prepare evidence and reports for court proceedings or penalty notices.
Candidates must have a strong understanding of statutory attendance, safeguarding, and child protection guidelines. You will need excellent interpersonal skills to engage effectively with students, parents, carers, and external agencies. Experience in planning and implementing interventions to support student attendance, coupled with the ability to manage sensitive situations with professionalism and empathy, is essential. You should be capable of working independently and collaboratively as part of a team to meet attendance targets and deliver measurable outcomes.
At North Durham Academy, we offer a supportive and dynamic working environment with opportunities for professional development, including leading assemblies and delivering staff CPD sessions. This role provides the chance to make a meaningful impact on student outcomes and well-being.
If you are passionate about improving student attendance and making a difference in education, we would love to hear from you.
Please contact Assistant Headteacher Kate Middleton at K.Middleton@ncdat.org.uk for further information on the role.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
About North Durham Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 976 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- North Durham Academy website
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools and 5 primary schools.
Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.
The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.
To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.
The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.
The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.
Our Aims are:
To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
At North Durham Academy, we are openly focused on the educational outcomes of our students and firmly believe that placing the student at the centre of everything we do will ensure that they leave with both the best possible grades and having had the best possible experiences throughout their time with us.
In order to realise this, we work with our vision in mind at all times:
“For all students and staff to want to learn and work at a good school; and for all parents/carers from our community to want to send their children to a good school.”
There are a number of key principles that underpin the vision, which are:
Outstanding care for each and every individual
A relentless drive and focus to ensure that each and every student achieves their true potential
A focus on the quality of education and on high standards
A broad and balanced curriculum
A range of in-school and extra-curricular experiences to prepare our students for life in modern society
Superb facilities which support and enhance learning at all levels including achievement and engagement
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