Family Support & Learning Mentor & Education Welfare Officer
| Posting date: | 28 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2026 |
| Location: | Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF3 4NT |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | c7521ba8-b526-4645-b22e-8e8b5b8d4813 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
At Stanley Grove Academy (4 days per week) You will be a catalyst for transformation:
• Deliver bespoke, high-impact interventions that significantly improve pupils’ wellbeing, confidence, and engagement
• Support children navigating complex social, emotional, and behavioural needs, including SEND and anxiety
• Support families and actively signpost families to additional, external support and drive multiagency work in the school.
• Build deep, trust-based relationships with families, empowering them to sustain positive change
• Champion inclusive practice, ensuring every child’s unique identity and needs are recognised and celebrated
• Influence and support staff practice and contribute to a culture of uncompromising safeguarding and wellbeing
• Work with senior leaders to identify need, implement strategic support, and measure meaningful impact
• Mental Health Lead
• Designated Safeguarding Lead (Supporting a dedicated team of DSL and DDSLs)
Across Accomplish MAT (1 day per week) As Education Welfare Officer, you will extend your influence beyond one setting:
• Drive attendance and engagement as a fundamental right for every child
• Empower families to overcome barriers and reconnect with education
• Collaborate across schools and agencies to deliver consistent, high-quality support
• Contribute to a trust-wide vision where no child is left behind
What the school offers its staff
At Stanley Grove Academy and across Accomplish MAT, we are building something exceptional: a community where every child is seen, heard and enabled to succeed-no matter their starting point.
Everything we do is shaped by three powerful commitments:
• Care – We place relationships at the heart of everything, ensuring every child and family feels safe, valued, and understood
• Empower – We equip children, families, and colleagues with the confidence, skills, and agency to thrive independently
• Celebrate Uniqueness – We recognise and champion individuality, embracing diversity as a strength and ensuring every voice matters
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
At Stanley Grove Academy (4 days per week) You will be a catalyst for transformation:
• Deliver bespoke, high-impact interventions that significantly improve pupils’ wellbeing, confidence, and engagement
• Support children navigating complex social, emotional, and behavioural needs, including SEND and anxiety
• Support families and actively signpost families to additional, external support and drive multiagency work in the school.
• Build deep, trust-based relationships with families, empowering them to sustain positive change
• Champion inclusive practice, ensuring every child’s unique identity and needs are recognised and celebrated
• Influence and support staff practice and contribute to a culture of uncompromising safeguarding and wellbeing
• Work with senior leaders to identify need, implement strategic support, and measure meaningful impact
• Mental Health Lead
• Designated Safeguarding Lead (Supporting a dedicated team of DSL and DDSLs)
Across Accomplish MAT (1 day per week) As Education Welfare Officer, you will extend your influence beyond one setting:
• Drive attendance and engagement as a fundamental right for every child
• Empower families to overcome barriers and reconnect with education
• Collaborate across schools and agencies to deliver consistent, high-quality support
• Contribute to a trust-wide vision where no child is left behind
What the school offers its staff
At Stanley Grove Academy and across Accomplish MAT, we are building something exceptional: a community where every child is seen, heard and enabled to succeed-no matter their starting point.
Everything we do is shaped by three powerful commitments:
• Care – We place relationships at the heart of everything, ensuring every child and family feels safe, valued, and understood
• Empower – We equip children, families, and colleagues with the confidence, skills, and agency to thrive independently
• Celebrate Uniqueness – We recognise and champion individuality, embracing diversity as a strength and ensuring every voice matters
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.