School Engagement Officer
Netherwood Academy, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S73 8FEThis job expired on 30 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
30 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,586.00 - £35,391.00 Annually (FTE) £28,907 to £32,390 Actual Salary (pro-rata)
School Engagement Officer job summary
School Engagement Officer – Netherwood Academy
Join Our Team and Drive Rapid Improvement!
Are you meticulous in your approach to your own work and in securing high-quality contributions from others in the team? Do you have a passion for ensuring systems and processes run smoothly and efficiently? If so, we want you on our team!
Netherwood Academy is an 11-16 academy that opened in September 2012, set in an extensive £35 million campus. As part of Astrea Academy Trust, Netherwood Academy is in an exciting period of development.
As School Engagement Officer, you will be consistent, dependable, and organised, committed to supporting your colleagues to deliver the very best education possible. This is a crucial position in our structure, as the School Engagement Officer plays a vital role in school systems relating to attendance and behaviour. The role allows the academy to build on strong relationships that have already been formed between the school and the community, fostering community cohesion, collaboration, and support to ensure that all parents and scholars have the tools they need to access the very best education.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have an unstinting commitment to ensuring that all children have the right to access high-quality education every day.
- Be organised and prepared to work hard under direction as well as independently.
- Ensure all students and parents are supported within and beyond the academy.
Our vision and values:
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter their background, prior attainment, or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to go to university or pursue aspirational alternatives. We do not reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have special educational needs. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
What we offer:
- Support and progression opportunities
- Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team
- Highly visible and supportive senior leaders who have your back
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea South Yorkshire region
- Opportunity to complete further qualifications
- An unrivalled professional progression model
The successful candidate will be:
- Aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
- Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs.
Interested in applying?
If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education, or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our excellent learning environment (details in the applicant brief).
The closing date for all applications is midnight on 30th March 2025.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities.
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
About Netherwood Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1236 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Netherwood Academy website
Netherwood Academy is an 11-16 academy which opened in September 2012, set in an extensive £35 million campus. As part of Astrea Academy Trust, Netherwood Academy is in an exciting period of development.
A WELCOME FROM THE PRINCIPAL
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Netherwood Academy. I took the helm here at the beginning of September 2020 after almost 10 years Headship experience in two schools elsewhere in Yorkshire, and I am committed, alongside my staff team, to doing everything in my power to ensure Netherwood is the school of choice for all secondary-age students in the wider community.
We have ambitious plans to take the school further on its journey to “inspiring beyond measure”, backed by Astrea, a forward-looking and values-driven trust which operates a large number of primary and secondary schools throughout South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire.
My personal ambitions for Netherwood are very straightforward – to provide an excellent all-round education for every student, whatever their background, and inspire them to be ambitious for themselves, both academically and socially, so that they go out into the wider world as responsible citizens, fully-equipped for what life has to offer. This will include a commitment from us, as staff, to broadening students’ general cultural awareness, and we aim to do this through high expectations and an unapologetic focus on students doing the right thing day-in, day-out. We believe this will make all of our classrooms and corridors disruption-free, enabling teachers to teach high-quality lessons and students to learn and thrive every day.
Our facilities are modern and extensive, and we have worked hard to ensure curriculum areas and extra-curricular activities are well-resourced and accessible to everyone. We have dedicated, state-of-the-art spaces for indoor and outdoor Physical Education, as well as the Visual and Performing Arts, including Music, Drama and Dance.
More and more families from the local area are choosing Netherwood for their children than ever before, and staff at the school have the confidence to send their own children here, in greater numbers than we have ever seen – this is testament to the rapid improvements we have made over the past two years, and which we continue to make.
When Ofsted next visit us, we are adamant that we will be judged to be a Good school, for the first time in the school’s history; the work we have already undertaken means we are well on the way to achieving this ambition.
Our academy is a bright and vibrant community, where children sit at the very heart of everything we do. I very much hope it is a community you would like to be part of.
Best wishes
Mr J Mitchel
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