Inclusion and Safeguarding Officer

The Morley Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS27 0PD

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Start date to be agreed with successful candidate

• Closing date

  9 February 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Only + 1 Working Week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: SO2 (SCP 26-28) £37,280 – £39,152 Actual Salary: £32,205 - £33,823

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Morley Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague for the role of Inclusion and Safeguarding Officer with strategic responsibility for persistently and severely absent students. This role is of great importance to our work as an Academy. The successful candidate will be working alongside Senior Leaders in charge of attendance and inclusion and will support the day-to-day inclusion and safeguarding systems and processes across the academy, ensuring total consistency, efficiency, and rigour in approach.

Potential applicants should have:

• 5 GCSEs grade C/4 and above including English and Mathematics
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Knowledge of attendance systems within an educational setting.
• Knowledge of safeguarding processes within an educational setting.
• Experience supporting students to improve behaviours.
• A passion for education and making a difference.

What the school offers its staff

What we can offer you:

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

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

I&SO with Strat Responsib. for S&PA Students.pdf - 344 KB (opens in new tab)

About The Morley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1422 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Morley Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@morley.leeds.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0113 2532952
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-morley-academy

The Morley Academy is an Ofsted graded Outstanding 11-16 academy with 1546 students, making it a larger than average secondary school. Gaining the prestigious World Class Schools Quality Mark in 2016 and being reaccredited in 2018, Students at The Morley Academy have proved that they are ambitious, resilient and aspirational. Strong examination results and progress figures over the last few years have placed us within the top 200 schools nationally. In September 2015 the school became part of The GORSE Academies Trust led by Sir John Townsley. The Trust is a vibrant and forward thinking teaching community which places all students, in particular those who come from the most challenging backgrounds, at the centre of its work. The Trust officially has two outstanding secondary academies and one Outstanding Post-16 free school: Elliott Hudson College, the Post-16 provider of choice for the majority of Morley’s Year 11 cohort. Furthermore, in 2016 the Trust opened an Alternative Provision free school, The Stephen Longfellow Academy, a direct partner to all of the academies in the Trust. In addition to four primary academies, two of which are have been graded by Ofsted as Outstanding, the Trust also includes two Teaching Schools which provide leadership development and initial teacher training and the opportunity to be involved in innovative and exciting teaching and learning opportunities; the GORSE SCITT was also graded by Ofsted as Outstanding in 2017 adding testament to the fact that the Trust is one of the highest performing Multi Academy Trusts in the country.

Arranging a visit to The Morley Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@morley.leeds.sch.uk.

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