Student Wellbeing and Welfare Officer
The St Leonards Academy, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 8HHThis job expired on 6 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - 22/7/25
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23893
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you committed to the development and achievements of students?
The St Leonards Academy is looking to appoint a full time Student Wellbeing and Welfare Officer to join our friendly and proactive pastoral team.
Within this highly rewarding role, your responsibilities will include:
- Providing support, care and guidance; ensuring that students emotional and wellbeing needs are met
- Ensuring students attend lessons
- Assisting students that need to be removed for behavioural or emotional reasons
- Working proactively and liaising with parents and staff in supporting students learning and progress
To be successful within this role, you will:
- Be firmly committed to improving standards of learning and achievement and improving life chances for all students
- Have excellent communication and listening skills
- Be a confident, calm and caring team member
- Be an excellent role model; offering support and guidance to ensure students are fully engaged
- Have a good understanding of the learning and support needs of young people, gained in a working school setting in a learning support capacity
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of this rewarding role.
What the school offers its staff
We truly value the experience,dedication, and commitment of all our employees and believe in the power of motivated and happy staff. This is why we seek to enrich and reward our employees wherever we can, by offering a wide range of exciting and useful employee benefits. These include:
- Automatic annual pay increments
- High quality continuous professional development and support for your career progression
- A strong commitment to your health & wellbeing including; onsite Wellbeing Champions, designated Mental Health Ambassadors, flexible working opportunities from Day 1, and Employee Assistance programme
- Generous public sector pension scheme
- Discounts on retail & travel
- Cycle 2 Work scheme
- Charity giving
Commitment to safeguarding
The University of Brighton Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check. This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013, 2020 and 2023. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
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About The St Leonards Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1345 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The St Leonards Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- g.sidders@thestleonardsacademy.org.uk
The St Leonards Academy
Here at The St Leonards Academy, we have a clear vision of what creates successful learners. And we know how to implement it.
Our students are enthusiastic about learning because we make sure we supply excellent teaching and exceptional pastoral care.
As well as focussing on academic achievement we are equally committed to the improvement of our students' character through the promotion of our five virtues of kindness, respect, honesty, resilience and self-discipline.
They have opportunities galore to develop these virtues through our personal development curriculum and our enrichment programme that offers everything from rock-climbing to formal debating. Above all, they take pride in themselves, their school, and their learning.
Arranging a visit to The St Leonards Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email g.sidders@thestleonardsacademy.org.uk.
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