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  • Start date details

    September 2025/ASAP

  • Closing date

    18 September 2025 at 11am

  • Date listed

    4 September 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

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Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£26,825.00 - £27,693.00 Annually (FTE) The actual salary is available upon request.

Student Support Practitioner job summary

Start Date: September 2025/ASAP

Single Status Grade 6 points 14-16, currently between £26,825 - £27,693 per annum full time equivalent 

Contract: Fixed Term Contract for 12 months initially, full time, term time only, 37 hours per week

We are looking for a compassionate and proactive Student Support Practitioner to join our team. In this vital role, you will work closely with students, families, and staff to provide tailored support that promotes wellbeing, engagement, and academic success. If you are empathetic, adaptable, and committed to making a positive impact every day, while continuously developing your own skills, we would like to hear from you.

Beacon Academy is a split site, semi-rural, mixed 11-18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1600 students, including over 300 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the south coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of locations within the southeast, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells.

In September 2022, Beacon Academy, together with Uplands Academy in Wadhurst, became a member of the MARK Education Trust (formally Beacon Community College Academy Trust). The acronym, MARK, was selected because staff who work in the Trust are motivated, ambitious, resourceful, and knowledgeable. We were pleased to expand our Trust further in September 2025 with the addition of Hailsham Academy. This continued growth reflects our shared commitment to educational excellence, collaboration and supporting the success of all students across our Academies.

We work meticulously to secure a culture of unapologetically high expectations that are underpinned by our collective, uncompromising belief and ambition for our students, and for the experienced, loyal, highly skilled and highly-effective team of staff that teach them, allowing teachers to teach and students to learn in a school where leadership, management, behaviour and welfare are all judged as outstanding. MARK Education Trust is committed to the development of both its staff and students.  

For further details, please contact the Human Resources department on 01892 603000 or email hr@beacon-academy.org. Please be advised that we do not accept curriculum vitae.

MARK Education Trust (Beacon, Uplands and Hailsham Academies) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

NB: we advise applying promptly for this post as we reserve the right to close and interview early if sufficient suitable applications have been received.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS clearance and suitable references.

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About Beacon Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1662 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
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We are a split site, semi-rural, mixed 11-18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1630 students, including over 250 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the South Coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of destinations within the South East, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells.

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