Student Welfare Officer + DDSL
Ash Hill Academy, DONCASTER, South Yorkshire, DN7 6JH15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday Term-time plus 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade G Points 20 to 24 (£31,586 to £34,314 Full Time Equivalent). The minimum actual pro rata salary per annum for this job starts at £27,532.19.
What skills and experience we're looking for
As a Student Welfare Officer,you will assist in tackling underachievement by working in partnership with families, parents/carers, students and external agencies in a school context to enable students, particularly the most disadvantaged to have full access to educational opportunities and overcome barriers to learning and participation. You will work directly with families in a non judgemental way empowering them and their family to get the most out of the educational opportunities available.
You will also support the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in the academy in your role as Deputy DSL.
Please see the job description on our website for the essential criteria.
If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience required for this position, then we would very much like to hear from you.
What the school offers its staff
Ash Hill Academy is an exciting place to learn and as soon as you enter the building you can feel a buzz of enthusiasm. Behaviour in our academy is very good with a relentless focus upon learning and aspiration. The academy prides itself on providing its students with a first class education. We know our students well and do our utmost to ensure they all fulfil their full potential and get the outcomes they truly deserve.
Since joining Delta Academies Trust, the school has moved on a strong upward trajectory. Huge improvements in the quality of education have seen academic outcomes improve significantly with levels of student, staff and parent satisfaction that has never been better.
There has been a huge investment across the site. We have a new multi purpose building with outstanding facilities and a new state of the art Sports Centre which opened in March 2024.
Staff across the trust are talented and enthusiastic, and all contribute to the trust’s success story.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
We offer an extensive range of opportunities, incentives and benefits with this post including:
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing. Here are just a few examples in each area…
Financial Wellbeing:
- Membership to either the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme*
- Access to an extensive discounts platform
Physical Wellbeing:
- 24/7 access to an online GP or Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household
- Gym & fitness discount’s
- Cycle to Work scheme*
- Free annual flu jab
Mental Wellbeing:
- Access to an industry leading Employee Assistance Programme
- Menopause Support Service
- Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained
- Holiday Entitlement: minimum 37 days(subject to pro rata if working part time and dependent upon salary and continuous service) including statutory Bank Holidays.
Commitment to safeguarding
In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.
Post holders will be subject to an enhanced DBS check with barred list.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Ash Hill Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 804 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ash Hill Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@ashhillacademy.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01302562541
Ash Hill Academy is an exciting place to learn and as soon as you enter the building you can feel a buzz of enthusiasm. Behaviour in our Academy is very good with a relentless focus upon learning and aspiration. The Academy prides itself on providing its students with a first-class education. We know our students well and do our utmost to ensure they all fulfil their full potential and get the outcomes they truly deserve.
The Academy has a state-of-the-art learning environment which staff and students are proud to teach and learn in respectively. We have the outstanding Porter multi-purpose building built in April 2021 and a new state-of-the-art Sports Centre which opened in March 2024.
Ash Hill Academy is proud to be rated Ofsted GOOD (March 2020), achieved by having dedicated and enthusiastic staff who are committed to giving our community an extraordinary educational experience.
We are a vibrant Academy with over 870 students on roll and are ever growing. The building facilities speak for themselves and allow us to deliver a high-quality curriculum to our students.
Collaboration is at the heart of the Academy for both students and staff. You will find our Ash Hill Academy team to be positive and reflective towards their own professionalism, with wellbeing as a pivotal aspect of our Academy ethos.
Since joining Delta Academies Trust, the school has moved on a strong upward trajectory. Huge improvements in the quality of education have seen academic outcomes improve significantly with levels of student, staff and parent satisfaction that has never been better.
Arranging a visit to Ash Hill Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email info@ashhillacademy.org.uk.
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