Pupil Welfare Support Assistant
Brookfields School, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 3JA10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
1 July 2025
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
- Grade 2 - SCP 8 - 10 - £23,657 - £24,027 (FTE)
Pupil Welfare Support Assistant job summary
Join Our Team and Help Make a Difference in Pupils’ Lives!
We are looking for 1 x Pupil Welfare Support Assistant for Brookfields, Widnes and 1 x Pupil Welfare Support for Brookfields, Runcorn.
At Brookfields we believe that every child deserves to feel safe, supported, and able to thrive. We are seeking a compassionate, organised, and enthusiastic Pupil Welfare Support Assistant to join our dedicated team.
In this vital role, you will work closely with staff, pupils, and families to promote well-being, ensure safeguarding standards are met, and support pupils' emotional and physical health needs throughout the school day.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide daily welfare support to pupils, including responding to medical needs and emotional distress
- Work closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead to ensure effective safeguarding practices
- Support attendance monitoring and follow-up on concerns in collaboration with pastoral teams
- Liaise with parents, carers, and external agencies where appropriate
- Maintain accurate and confidential records of pupil welfare
- Contribute to the development and implementation of welfare-related policies and strategies
Brookfields School provides a quality, inclusive and specialist education for pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders.
We are committed to:
- An inclusive approach to teaching and learning to provide equal opportunities for all pupils
- Providing a positive, stimulating, child-centred learning environment, where everyone is valued and respected
- Promoting the personal qualities of individuals so that they achieve and contribute to their highest level
- Sustaining the highest quality teaching and learning standards
- Promoting learning as a life-long process involving a wide community of people including families
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
Our Special settings cater for children and young people with a wide range of Special Educational Needs from children with profound medical needs and life limiting conditions, those with severe, moderate and sensory needs through to young people with social emotional and mental health needs that require support and understanding to help them to navigate their world.
Whether you are a teacher, a teaching assistant, a healthcare professional or work in facilities, admin or operations all our Special Schools offer you the opportunity to work within an establishment that has a ‘family’ feel that puts the children, young people and their families at the heart of what they do.
All the pupils within our Special Schools have an individualised education and are educated in small classes and groups with enhanced support to ensure that all their needs are met. There is nothing more rewarding than being part of a team that supports a child or young person with Special Educational Needs to reach their goals. You truly will make a difference to the life of a young person and their family.
Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or socioeconomic status. In doing this, we can help ensure all children are able to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.
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)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- 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.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Actual Salary: £5,430 - £5,515 (Pay Award Pending)
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 are not accepted.
About Brookfields School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- School size
- 122 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Brookfields School website
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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