Student Engagement Manager
North Durham Academy, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 0TW13 days remaining to apply
Closing date
20 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 September 2026
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
- £30,375.00 - £37,280.00 Annually (Actual)
Student Engagement Manager job summary
Student Engagement Manager
North Durham Academy
Grade 5
Term time +1 week
Permanent
Connect Multi-Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an exceptional, highly aspirational, dynamic Student Engagement Manager with a strong, proven track record of positive impact, ideally with those students most in need of additional support.
The post holder will be expected to lead, develop and manage The Self-Regulation Room (SRR) to ensure academic progress and high-quality outcomes are secured for students with behavioural needs and learning difficulties. You will be able to demonstrate positive impact on those students with repeated or serious poor behaviour to enable pupils to access learning in the classroom.
Ideally, you will have experience in leading, offering and developing expert support to pupils with behaviour (including truancy and poor attendance) and learning difficulties in a secondary education setting. You will have experience of working with external agencies to support students and their families.
The successful applicant will liaise with all Heads of Departments to ensure all work delivered in the SRR is fit for purpose, relates to age related expectations and has impact, allowing students to reintegrate back to mainstream lessons at the earliest opportunity, when appropriate to do so.
As well as excellent interpersonal skills, you must have resilience and empathy and be able to work effectively under pressure, promoting the culture and vision of the academy by being a positive role model to all students, upholding a vision of inclusion and learning.
Additionally, the post holder will:
Monitor and sanction as required all behaviour referrals and instigate investigations as required with support from the Head of Inclusion, Head of Student Support and Year Managers as required.
Analyse behaviour referral data on a weekly and half termly basis to identify students requiring additional support and also to monitor referrals for individual staff and departments.
Manage links between the pupil and parents/carers to support and encourage achievement and improving behaviour.
Devise and implement strategies with colleagues as appropriate to involve parents/carers and school staff in the establishment of strong home/school links.
Please note that we operate a probationary period of 4 months across all jobs in the Trust. You will receive a comprehensive induction to support you to successfully pass your probation.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About North Durham Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 935 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- North Durham Academy website
Connect Multi-Academy Trust is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools and 5 primary schools.
Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.
The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.
To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.
The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.
The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.
Our Aims are:
To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
At North Durham Academy, we are openly focused on the educational outcomes of our students and firmly believe that placing the student at the centre of everything we do will ensure that they leave with both the best possible grades and having had the best possible experiences throughout their time with us.
In order to realise this, we work with our vision in mind at all times:
“For all students and staff to want to learn and work at a good school; and for all parents/carers from our community to want to send their children to a good school.”
There are a number of key principles that underpin the vision, which are:
Outstanding care for each and every individual
A relentless drive and focus to ensure that each and every student achieves their true potential
A focus on the quality of education and on high standards
A broad and balanced curriculum
A range of in-school and extra-curricular experiences to prepare our students for life in modern society
Superb facilities which support and enhance learning at all levels including achievement and engagement
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