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  • Start date details

    September 2026

  • Closing date

    26 June 2026 at 9am

  • Date listed

    12 June 2026

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

£29,289.00 - £31,262.00 Annually (Actual)

Education Welfare Officer job summary

EDUCATION WELFARE OFFICER

Full Time / Permanent - 37 hours per week, Term Time Only (incl INSET days) + 1 week during summer holidays

Single Status Grade 9, Points 23-25 Salary £33,055 - £35,282 (pro rata)

Actual Salary £29,289 - £31,262

Start date: September 2026

Closing date: 9am Friday 26 June 2026

Interview date: Tuesday 30 June 2026

We advise applying promptly for this post as we reserve the right to close and interview early if sufficient suitable applications have been received.

Cavendish Education Trust is looking to appoint an enthusiastic, confident and organised individual to be our Education Welfare Officer.

We are looking to appoint an Education Welfare Officer in our all through school. You will be working alongside senior staff in the school to promote positive attitudes towards school attendance of pupils and their parents/carers and to ensure that pupils are present at school so as to derive maximum benefit from their education.

  • Are you committed to working with young people?

  • Do you have excellent communication skills and the ability to relate to students?

  • You will need to work flexibly within a team

  • Do you have good literacy and numeracy skills?

  • Good interpersonal skills are essential.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is very organised and an excellent communicator to join our team.

Please visit our website for further details as well as the application process via the recruitment platform mynewterm https://cet.uk/vacancies/

We look forward to receiving your application, if you have any questions please email hr@cet.uk

Please note that we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expect all those who work with us to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check with the Disclosure & Barring Services (previously the Criminal Records Bureau). For further information about what is required in this process please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-check-applicant-criminal-record. We give high priority to promoting diversity throughout the school

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.
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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.

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About The Cavendish School

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 16
Education phase
All through school
School size
1372 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 16
Ofsted report
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School website
The Cavendish School website
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The Cavendish School is a popular co-educational Academy, catering for the 2-16 age range, which has had a Specialist Status in the Arts since 2002. We have a planned admission number of 60 in each year group in the primary phase and 180 for each year group in the secondary phase.

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