Student Performance and Wellbeing Manager

The Farnley Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 5EU

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate.

• Closing date

  8 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: SO1 (SCP 23-25) £34,434- £36,363 Actual Salary: £29,747- £31,413 Hours: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Only + 1 Working Week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: SO1 (SCP 23-25) £34,434- £36,363 Actual Salary: £29,747- £31,413

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Farnley Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Student Performance and Wellbeing Manager. This role is of great importance to our work as an academy in ensuring that children can achieve their full educational potential.

Potential applicants should have:

• Knowledge of the social, emotional and mental health needs of young people.
• Knowledge of EHCP & SEMH processes.
• Knowledge of how to de-escalate behaviour incidents.

The Farnley Academy is a high performing Ofsted Outstanding (2023) school located in the West of Leeds. At TFA we are wholeheartedly dedicated to ensuring that all students in our care receive a first-class education and achieve their goals in life, whatever they might be. Our staff value each of our students as individuals and work tirelessly to ensure that students achieve excellent GCSE examination outcomes and also develop into positive members of society. It is through our valuing of the individual and our consistently high expectations that we will achieve our vision of providing ‘An Exceptional Student Experience for all’.

If you would like to know more about our academy, please visit our website at: www.farnley.leeds.sch.uk.

How to Apply:

If you are as excited about this role as we are, you can download the Job Description, Person Specification, and Application Form from the GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), request them by email at recruitment@farnley.leeds.sch.uk, or call us on 0113 2630741.

Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.

Closing date for applications: Apply Now

Interviews will take place: TBC

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK – either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

Please note that, as a sponsor licence holder, we only provide sponsorship for teacher vacancies.

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.
• Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
• £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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About The Farnley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1501 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Farnley Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@farnley.leeds.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-farnley-academy

As part of The GORSE Academies Trust, The Farnley Academy underwent a remarkable transformation over three years to become one of the most improved schools in England. In December 2013, the excellence of our work was recognised by OFSTED which judged the Academy to be Outstanding in all areas. Inspectors reported that '…the quality of teaching is outstanding. Much is inspirational. As a result, students display a rare thirst for learning and an eagerness to succeed.' In addition, inspectors noted ‘Newly qualified teachers are able to improve their teaching skills very quickly and effectively as a result of the excellent role models in the school and the excellent support available to them from experienced colleagues’.

In 2015, The Farnley Academy became a Teaching School. Working in alliance with a range of partners, we actively seek opportunities to raise standards in education through research and development, initial teacher training, school-to-school support and continuing professional development. The GORSE Farnley Teaching Schools Alliance has quickly established a reputation for profoundly improving student outcomes in other schools, particularly in English, Mathematics and Science.

In 2016 the Academy was awarded the prestigious World Class Schools Quality Mark, becoming one of only 50 schools across England to have secured this status. Awarded only to schools whose students are able to demonstrate they have world class attributes and qualities, we are hugely proud of this achievement and what it says about our young people, their aspirations, creatively, sense of community and pride in their academy.

Our mission is simple – to create an environment which is free from cynicism and unwilling to put limits on what young people can achieve. If you share our vision, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for. Applications are welcome from experienced teachers seeking a new challenge and from colleagues hoping to secure their first post.

Arranging a visit to The Farnley Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@farnley.leeds.sch.uk.

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