Pupil Welfare Support Assistant
Brookfields School, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 3JA11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 April 2026 at 9am
Date listed
13 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 10 hours a week - Monday to Friday - 38 weeks per year (Term time only)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,414 - £24,796 (Pay Award Pending)
Actual salary
- £5,604 - £5,692
Pay scale
- SCP 8 - 10
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Pupil Welfare Support Assistant to join our supportive SEN (Special Educational Needs) school team. This is a part-time role, ideal for someone passionate about supporting the emotional wellbeing, safety, and personal development of children and young people with additional needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide welfare and pastoral support to pupils with a range of special educational needs
- Support students’ emotional wellbeing, helping them to regulate behaviour and build resilience
- Work closely with teaching staff to ensure pupils feel safe, secure, and ready to learn
- Assist with managing challenging behaviour in a calm and supportive manner
- Build positive, trusting relationships with pupils
- Support during unstructured times (e.g. break/lunch) as required
- Contribute to safeguarding and wellbeing monitoring in line with school policies
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff)/Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include a variety of the National Professional Qualifications and the Early Carer Teacher Programme delivered by Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews
- Access to a suite of online courses
- Placement projects within our family of schools
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 Brookfields School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- School size
- 131 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Brookfields School website
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
Brookfields is a primary special academy situated in Widnes, Cheshire. Our school provides a quality, inclusive and specialist education for pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders. The school is part of the Shaw Education Trust.
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