Safeguarding, Early Help and Outreach Officer

The Stephen Longfellow Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11 8PG

29 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  31 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 October 2025

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: Fixed term - until 31st March 2027
• Pay scale: S01 (SCP 23-25) £34,434 - £36,363 Actual salary: £29,747 - £31,413

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Stephen Longfellow Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Safeguarding, Early Help and Outreach Worker. This role is of great importance to our work as an Academy. The Safeguarding, Early Help and Outreach Worker will be responsible for working with a caseload of students/families and will provide early help and outreach intervention, which includes formulisation meetings, instigating Early Help Plans and proactively supporting parents/carers to understand and remove difficulties that impact upon the family or lead to critical family situations. The role will entail providing personalised and individual intervention for parents/carers to support engagement with education and to ensure that children and young people are able to build resilience, adaptability and develop the positive mental health needed to face change and challenge. The early help and outreach work with families will be solution focused and provide parents/carers with the tools and skills to affect change, encouraging protective factors within the home environment and remove barriers to student attendance, engagement and progress.

Potential applicants should have:

• 5+ GCSE C/4 and above (or equivalent) including English and Mathematics.
• 3-day Designated Safeguarding Officer training.
• Knowledge and understanding of factors that affect the Social Emotional and Mental Health of children and young people.
• Experience of working in a safeguarding role and providing early help for children and families.

What the school offers its staff

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.

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About The Stephen Longfellow Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 0 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Stephen Longfellow Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@stephenlongfellow.leeds.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-stephen-longfellow-academy

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