Trust Education Welfare Officer

St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust, Liverpool, L3 1BY

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  19 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  7 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share): 5 days per week Monday - Friday - 37 hours on a term time only basis plus 3 weeks
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: NJC SCP 17-24

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an individual who is positive and enthusiastic and wants to support our mission of transforming children's lives through a world-class education.

The Trust Education Welfare Officer works in partnership with academies to support children and their families, putting the child first when school attendance is a concern. You will work alongside relevant academy staff members to contribute to raising achievement by improving student attendance. You willbe responsible for raising pupil attendance levels across the Trust, contributing to improved outcomes for persistent and severely absent pupils. You will work with identified families, building relationships and providing specialist attendance support

This position reports to the Head of Safeguarding, Attendance, Behaviour and Culture and is part of the Trust Central Team and requires travel to the schools within our Trust. We are keen to understand how this role could work for you and we are open to consider flexible working options.

Who are we looking for?

• Are you passionate about improving attendance and punctuality in schools?
• Do you have ambition to reach every child?
• Are you an experienced Attendance / Education Welfare Officer who’s ready for the next challenge?
• Do you want to develop creative strategies to ensure students attend school?
• Do you have great communication and organisational skills?
• Can you roll up your sleeves but also have a strategic overview?

We are a Catholic Multi-Academy Trust. You do not need to be a practicing Catholic but must share our ethos and values.

What the school offers its staff

There are many good reasons to work with us. We have a real sense of community and you will be a part of it. You will be part, too of the wider Archdiocese family and in the company of some of the best people in education. We also offer a variety of benefits, such as:

• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Generous pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme and Home and Electronics scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment

The list is not exhaustive and will grow as the Trust matures.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo an enhanced disclosure and barring service check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we will carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust website
• Email address: lkelly@sjcmat.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-joseph-catholic-multi-academy-trust

St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is a based in the Liverpool City Region with five primary and four secondary academies. As a united family of academies, we are fully aligned around our central mission to transform children’s lives by providing them with a world-class Catholic education.

The Trust guarantees an excellent Catholic education to all families. Our children are entitled to access an ambitious curriculum and excellent teaching, which allow them to achieve and exceed national expectations regardless of their starting points.

Everyone involved in St Joseph CMAT is highly committed to the pursuit of high achievement. We aim for all of our academies to be at least ‘Good’ with performance in the top 20% of schools nationally in all measures, particularly in Religious Education. Our robust educational strategy, which is informed by the highest-performing Trusts in the country, is designed to ensure that all children learn to read confidently and achieve well across the curriculum so that they can go on to use their God-given gifts to make the world a better place.

St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust has sponsor status. We are able to provide intensive support to schools who find themselves in a vulnerable position and onboard ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ schools who choose to join as converter academies. For all academies in the Trust, there is a guarantee of high-quality professional development for all colleagues.

As part of its Multi Academy Trust strategy, the Archdiocese of Liverpool has identified a group of primary schools that are invited to join St Joseph CMAT over the coming years. This is an exciting opportunity to bring together primary and secondary schools. By working as a family of academies, we will ensure that every child benefits from an excellent Catholic education from the moment they start primary school to when they leave Sixth Form.

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