Student Welfare Officer
Minehead Middle School, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5RH11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
18 September 2026
Closing date
29 September 2026 at 11:59am
Date listed
18 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
- £27,274.00 - £28,608.00 full time equivalent
Student Welfare Officer job summary
Job Advert: Student Welfare Officer
Role: Student Welfare Officer
Location: Minehead Middle School
Start Date: ASAP
Closing Date: 29.09.2026
Interview Date: w/c 05.10.2026
Salary: Grade 4 (point 7 -10) £27,724 - £28 608 (Full time equivalent)
Term Time plus 5 INSET days + up to 5 additional working days during the school holidays by mutual agreement
Hours: 37 hours per week 0830 – 1640 – Monday – Friday
Purpose of the role:
The Student Welfare Officer plays a vital role in safeguarding, supporting, and promoting the welfare, personal development, and overall wellbeing of all students. Working proactively with students, families, staff, and external agencies, the postholder ensures early identification of need, delivers targeted interventions, and contributes to a safe, inclusive, and nurturing school environment.
The Student Welfare Officer is a key member of the inclusion team, acting as a lead professional for identified students and providing high quality welfare support that removes barriers to learning, improves attendance, and supports emotional, social and academic progress.
At Minehead Middle School, part of the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership, the child is truly at the centre of everything we do. Our fundamental aim is to secure the very best life chances for every single child, regardless of their starting point.
Following a period of rapid improvement, we are continually building on our successes, and you will be joining a dynamic, supportive, and friendly team at an exciting time in our journey. As a Student Welfare Officer, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our young people, ensuring their well-being, and helping them overcome barriers to learning so they can embody our core values of ambition, respect, and determination.
Set at the heart of our local community, we offer a warm, welcoming environment where we aim to nurture the leaders of the future—both in our pupils and our staff. We work hard to provide a rich range of professional development opportunities to help you build outstanding practice in your role and across the wider school.
If you are an enthusiastic, hardworking, and ambitious professional looking to make a genuine difference in children's lives, we would love to hear from you. Visits to our school are warmly welcomed.
There are many advantages to working for us. Included in your actual annual salary is generous annual leave entitlement, access to a local government pension scheme, sick pay scheme, cycle-to-work scheme, free eye tests for VDU users and employee assistance helpline. Support staff in schools can also benefit from a range of national discount schemes available to education professionals such as the Blue Light Card offering savings on shopping, travel, and leisure.
We encourage early applications as we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the closing date if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Safeguarding Statement:
Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.
Further information about the job
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
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 Minehead Middle School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 9 to 13
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 570 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 13
- Ofsted report
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The West Somerset Academies Trust is a group of like-minded schools that share common values. Our family of academies works together to promote high academic standards, the development of good character and which puts children at the centre of its thinking.
Minehead Middle School is situated on the edge of Exmoor National Park and close to the Quantock Hills, the first ever area of outstanding natural beauty, designated in 1956. The school is one of 6 schools (2 Middle Schools and 4 First Schools) and 3 nurseries within the West Somerset Academies Trust. The school retains its own identity and benefits from being able to take full advantage of the opportunities available from belonging to the Trust, such as well resourced schools and nurseries and high quality CPD opportunities.
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