Attendance Manager/Education Welfare Officer
Outwood Academy Acklam
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, Redcar & Stockton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £23,453 - £25,004 actual salary
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 7 January 2019
Job overview
Outwood Grange Academies Trust are seeking to appoint Attendance Mangers/Education Welfare Officers to lead academy attendance teams and to engage students and their parents/carers where poor attendance is identified as a barrier to learning. We will look to you to ensure we fulfil our responsibility in the improvement of attendance and enhance the life chances of our students across Outwood Grange Academies Trust.
To be successful, you will be highly self-motivated with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Previous experience of working with children and families and with other agencies is essential, preferably within an education welfare setting.
You will be employed to work across the northern region of Outwood Grange Academies Trust and can be deployed to work at any academy within that region.
The academies within the Northern region are: Outwood Academy Acklam, Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth, Outwood Academy Bydales, Outwood Academy Easingwold, Outwood Academy Ormesby, Outwood Academy Redcar and Outwood Academy Ripon.
This is a fantastic opportunity for highly motivated and driven individuals, and you must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students.
Please note that there is currently a job evaluation exercise being undertaken across the Trust. The salary advertised for this post is therefore subject to job evaluation and may change.
For more information and to apply, please go to: www.outwood.com > Vacancies.
Closing date: 7 January 2019.
Interview date: 11 January 2019.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
About Outwood Academy Acklam
Chief Executive Officer: Lee Wilson
Principal: Graham Skidmore
Outwood Academy Acklam became part of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust in 2013 and strives to be an exemplar of best practice for schools across the North East of England. Outwood Academy Acklam is rated Good by Ofsted with Outstanding leadership and we are delighted to be based in the friendly North East town of Middlesbrough.
We are proud that in its report, Ofsted noted that ‘Staff morale is extremely high’ at the academy and that our staff ‘are proud to work at Outwood Academy Acklam’, and highlighted that our staff ‘say that senior leaders listen to and value their opinions.’
We are innovators with a knowledge-rich curriculum, designed to personalise learning for every student, helping them to reach their potential.
Our objective is to create well-rounded and successful citizens who deeply embrace British Values: respect for democracy and the rule of law, passion for individual liberty, a commitment to mutual respect, and tolerance for differing faiths and beliefs.
We aim to create an environment where every student leaves with an enquiring and open mind, ready to deal with all of life's challenges and engage with a diverse, thrilling and constantly changing world.
We have won numerous awards as a school and we are proud to have been awarded Gold Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award and Inclusion Centre of Excellence by IQM.
The Outwood Family of Schools pride ourselves on fully supporting colleagues within the Family both professionally and personally.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
As a founding Trust of the National Institute of Education (NIoT), we will actively invest in your future through working closely with the Outwood Institute of Education and NIoT to offer access to a wide range of CPD opportunities, with all teaching staff receiving a minimum of two hours of CPD each week.
We also offer a generous employment package with a whole host of staff benefits, including family friendly policies, enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period, funded CPD for qualifications up to and including Masters level plus other exclusive benefits including a partnership with car leasing company, Synergy.
All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.
If you share our vision, join our family.
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