Learning Manager - Student Support
Outwood Academy Danum, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN2 5QD17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours Per Week, Day to Day, Term Time only plus 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC Grade 7
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you ready to be a champion for student success? Join us as a Learning Manager, where you will play a critical role in nurturing student potential by focusing on welfare, strategic intervention, and data-driven monitoring. This position is perfect for someone passionate about removing academic and behavioral barriers to learning, ensuring all students thrive in a supportive educational setting, and effectively managing complex student cases in collaboration with external agencies.
Responsibilities
The Learning Manager strategically monitors all students in their assigned year group, utilizing MIS systems and Praising Stars data to identify concerns and action appropriate intervention strategies. Key duties include acting as the first point of contact for behaviour related incidents and supporting the Consequences process, including contacting parents regarding exclusions and supporting readmission meetings.
A core function is inter-agency liaison, including chairing Children in Need and Team Around the Child meetings, undertaking referrals for families, and supporting the Education Welfare Officer with truancy sweeps. They also coordinate year group logistics such as vaccinations and photographs and handle attendance checks.
Qualifications
The successful applicant must have experience of working in a school environment and demonstrable knowledge of issues affecting students and young people, including how to offer supportive assistance.
Essential skills include the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences, verbally and in writing, and proficiency in using standard ICT packages, including Microsoft Office. Crucially, candidates must be able to work well under pressure, manage competing deadlines, relate sympathetically to students, and recognise potential child safeguarding issues. Experience of working with other agencies that support vulnerable students is desirable.
What the school offers its staff
Welcome from the Principal:
We are an Ofsted Good rated, 11-18 academy in the friendly South Yorkshire town of Doncaster, featuring a thriving sixth form and a transforming campus.
Our recent 2024 OFSTED inspection confirmed we are a 'Good' and 'inclusive school' where 'pupils of every background are provided with the opportunities they need to be successful'
We highly value our staff, offering a truly supportive environment where training and well-being are central to everything we do. We are committed to reducing workload, ensuring staff can focus on our vision: students first, raising standards, and transforming lives.
Our commitment to inclusion and well-being is recognised by the IQM Award and Silver Status from the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award. We have also achieved the Eco Schools award and the Leading the Way award for meeting all eight Gatsby Benchmarks, preparing our students for an ever-changing world.
If you share our vision, join our family.
If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Emma Veal, Lead Learning Manager at e.veal@danum.outwood.com
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Outwood Academy Danum
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1157 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Outwood Academy Danum website
- Email address
- e.veal@danum.outwood.com
We are a large 11-18 comprehensive school with a thriving sixth form. Outwood Academy Danum became part of the Outwood family of schools in September 2016, in a recent Ofsted inspection we were graded good and we are still improving to become outstanding. This is an opportunity for you to join us on this journey.
As the highest performing Family of Schools in the North of England, Outwood Grange Academies Trust is transforming the futures of countless young people.
Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy Danum
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email e.veal@danum.outwood.com.
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