Welfare and Safeguarding Officer
Haberdashers' Borough Academy, London, SE1 0EX14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as available
Closing date
9 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 October 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
- £31,507.00 - £33,905.00 Annually (Actual) Band 6, S21-S24 ( £31,507 - £33,905 actual) Inner London Scale
Welfare and Safeguarding Officer job summary
Haberdashers' Borough Academy is seeking a dedicated Welfare Support Officer to join our pastoral team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of young people by supporting attendance, wellbeing and safeguarding across the academy.
Working closely with students, families and colleagues, you will help create a safe, supportive and inclusive environment where every learner can achieve their best. If you are passionate about student welfare, committed to safeguarding and eager to make a difference within a vibrant school community, we would love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities
- Attendance & Family Engagement
- Safeguarding & Student Welfare
- Stakeholder Collaboration
Reporting
This role will report into the Associate Vice Principal (Safeguarding and Welfare)
Staff Development
Our staff are important to us. We know that without great staff, our children will not be as successful. Therefore, Professional Learning is key to our success. As a new employee within the Trust, you will be supported by the Senior Directors of People and Professional Learning, alongside your line manager to realise your full potential. 'Our People Strategy is key to our success and integral to this is our commitment to equity, equality, diversity, and inclusion . Bringing this to life is the responsibility of every member of staff. We take seriously any behaviour which undermines it. Anyone applying to work with us, should share this commitment.’
We actively encourage applicants from colleagues from under-represented groups.
Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. This post falls within the scope of regulated activity. Appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS with list checks (and other relevant checks). It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Haberdashers' Borough Academy are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students. We believe all staff and visitors have a responsibility to keep students safe.
Borough Academy serves a cohort of students from the local community. The community is amongst the most diverse but also deprived in the country with an above average number of students eligible for Pupil Premium. The school works closely with local services to support our vulnerable students and their families. The Welfare, Attendance, PSHCE and Head of Year teams are all Designated Safeguarding Lead Level 3 qualified.
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 Haberdashers' Borough Academy
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 983 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
We are part of a Trust of nine schools, all based in South East London. Whilst each of our schools maintains its individuality, we share a common mission: to ensure that every single child and young person in our care is successful at school so that they can flourish and be successful in their lives.
Our mission is simple – we want pupils to ‘Become their best at Borough’ in all aspects of their lives. We have the highest aspirations for each young person we work with and strive to help them to fulfil their potential.
Our Academy values, which were created by our young people, speak to that. We expect our learners to become excellent ambassadors for their community, by working hard to achieve their aspirations, whilst becoming kind and resilient citizens.
Our location in the centre of the capital allows us to provide a unique take on the curriculum, making the most of partnerships with world leading organisations which enrich and enhance our offer. In all areas of the curriculum, we aim to ignite a spark which enables our young people to become scholars of their chosen subject disciplines.
We are proud of the traditions of excellence that are synonymous with the Haberdashers’ Academies Trust. Our schools are driven by a common ambition – to become excellent schools which are grounded in their communities. Through partnership with family of schools in South London, pupils and teachers have access to opportunities which enhance the learning experience.
Our journey is relatively new; but our ambitions are bold! We are immensely proud of our achievements to date, and invite you to visit to see us in action for yourself.
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