8 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    14 July 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    4 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday, 37 Hours Per Week. Term Time Plus Five Days.

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£29,093 - £30,060

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Experience of working in a school environment;
  • Knowledge of issues affecting young people and how to offer supportive assistance;
  • Experience and understanding of safeguarding and child protection issues;
  • Experience of working with other agencies that are able to support students with specific vulnerabilities and how to access this support;
  • Experience of the Common Assessment Framework and its use to support families and students;
  • Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences, verbally and in writing;
  • Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality;
  • Ability to use standard ICT packages including Microsoft Office;
  • Good time management and organisational skills;
  • Ability to relate to students in a pleasant and sympathetic manner and to recognise potential child safeguarding issues.

What the school offers its staff

Your starting salary with annual increments plus inflation linked increases. The starting salary within the grade advertised will be dependent upon your experience. You will also receive:

  • A comprehensive induction and training process
  • Automatic enrolment into an increasingly rare and valuable defined Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates
  • Flexible family friendly policies from day one
  • Enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period
  • Holidays: A minimum of 25 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service)
  • A range of working patterns are available dependant upon the role

Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:

  • Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
  • Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
  • Legal guidance
  • Financial guidance and debt counselling
  • Child and dependent care support and advice
  • Support for managers

We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing policy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:

  • Free flu vaccinations
  • Free onsite parking
  • Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
  • Access to various discount sites

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
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About Outwood Academy City Fields

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
855 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01924 298752

Secondary Academy

Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy City Fields

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email a.jarrett@cityfields.outwood.com.

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