- Vacancy Reference
- JOB002797
- Job Title
- Student Welfare Officer
- Job Start Date
- 28 April 2025
- Salary Range
- £26,409 to £32,694 pro rata (actual salary £23,349 to 28,870)
- Hours Per Week
- 36.5
- Working Pattern
- Term time only
- School Address
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Ninestiles, an Academy
Hartfield Crescent
Birmingham
B27 7QL
Telephone number: 0121 628 1311 - Contact Email
- recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk
- Contract Type
- Fixed term
- Period of Fixed Term Contract
- April 2025 until April 2026 or sooner if post holder returns
- Closing Date
- 16-Jan-2025 16:00
- Job Information
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Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement
Success through Endeavour
Ambition through Challenge
Strength through Diversity
Ninestiles, an Academy is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join our team as a Student Welfare Officer. Working under the Office Manager and alongside our Administrative and Attendance Teams you will be expected to provide a support service to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our learners.
Based in our Student Welfare office you will have a desire to combine an administrative role with working with young people and be calm, patient and able to work under pressure. You will need to sustain a welcoming environment where learners feel able to come knowing that their needs, however small, will be met with understanding and compassion.
As a Student Welfare Officer, you will need to be able and willing to take lead responsibility for first aid (for which a suitable qualification, or the willingness to be trained, is essential). Experience of working with external partners, maintaining positive relationships and an ability to communicate effectively with members of colleagues, learners, careers and parents is crucial.
About our Academy
The greatest strength of our academy is our learners who are often praised for their creativity, musical talents, artistic performances and the respect they have for one another. Learners generally understand the importance of learning, value their academy and are proud to be part of it.
Ninestiles has a very reflective teaching body who welcome feedback from parents and students to secure the needs of all learners. The academy has a wide and varied curriculum, learners have access to an impressive range of sporting and extracurricular activities with well over sixty enrichment opportunities offered after school. There is a strong culture of safeguarding and colleagues work positively with the leadership team to ensure learners are kept safe. The leadership team of Ninestiles has the vision, drive and support to lead the academy on a journey of excellence, with colleagues that have a passion for teaching and learning.
Why work for us?
We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth.
These include access to:
• employee assistance programme
• high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression
• wellbeing advocates
• lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme
• health protection scheme alongside flu jab and eyecare vouchers
• generous employer pension schemes
• excellent holiday entitlement
We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.
- This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
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How to apply:
- Safeguarding
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
- enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
- References
- All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
- Short-listed candidates
- An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
- Terms and Conditions
- This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
- Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
- Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.