Student Support Officer
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 November 2025 |
| Location: | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 2NJ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | cb2d36b7-aafb-43ca-bdea-6d3b9dc20555 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• To provide pastoral care, support and guidance for students within the year group
• To support the wellbeing of individual students, by developing approaches based on existinggood practice in managing and support students with emotional and behavioural difficulties
• Working alongside parents in helping them to support the work of the school in improvingindividual students’ progress, attitude to learning and behaviour whilst ensuring that there areeffective lines of communication operating between school and home
• Work directly with individuals or groups to raise self-esteem and confidence of students witha view to improve personal and social skills
• To support the Head of Key Stage in monitoring academy performance, behaviour andattendance data and intervening as required
• Working with all staff to promote the effective use of behaviour management strategies
• Support parents and students by liaising with identified outside agencies
• Mentoring on a 1:1 basis and supporting work with small groups of students within a yeargroup
• Working within a pastoral team to support whole school pastoral care
• Promoting and encouraging programmes of study support in school
• Completing duties and patrols in line with behaviour policy
• Maintaining contact with students
What the school offers its staff
The school is proud to be able to offer a number of benefits to its employees including:
• Access to CareFirst 24/7 our EAP confidential support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sick pay
• Wellbeing forum
• Termly staff breakfasts
• Weekly rewards to the employee of the week
• Continued Professional Development reviewed annually
Commitment to safeguarding
Positions are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointments will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). All appointments made are also subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and Right to Work in the UK.
• To provide pastoral care, support and guidance for students within the year group
• To support the wellbeing of individual students, by developing approaches based on existinggood practice in managing and support students with emotional and behavioural difficulties
• Working alongside parents in helping them to support the work of the school in improvingindividual students’ progress, attitude to learning and behaviour whilst ensuring that there areeffective lines of communication operating between school and home
• Work directly with individuals or groups to raise self-esteem and confidence of students witha view to improve personal and social skills
• To support the Head of Key Stage in monitoring academy performance, behaviour andattendance data and intervening as required
• Working with all staff to promote the effective use of behaviour management strategies
• Support parents and students by liaising with identified outside agencies
• Mentoring on a 1:1 basis and supporting work with small groups of students within a yeargroup
• Working within a pastoral team to support whole school pastoral care
• Promoting and encouraging programmes of study support in school
• Completing duties and patrols in line with behaviour policy
• Maintaining contact with students
What the school offers its staff
The school is proud to be able to offer a number of benefits to its employees including:
• Access to CareFirst 24/7 our EAP confidential support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sick pay
• Wellbeing forum
• Termly staff breakfasts
• Weekly rewards to the employee of the week
• Continued Professional Development reviewed annually
Commitment to safeguarding
Positions are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointments will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). All appointments made are also subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and Right to Work in the UK.