Student Services Officer

Do you pride yourself on your ability to build and maintain good working relationships with young adults? Can you empathise whilst being firm but fair? Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy have a great opportunity and are seeking to appoint a Student Services Officer who will support students across the academy with attendance, with their behaviour for learning and their emotional wellbeing.

Student Services Officers (SSO) will work in partnership with Student Support Managers (SSMs) and College teams to ensure that the needs of the students are met. Challenging and logging punctuality when allocated to the start of day duty rota is an important role in assisting with reducing lateness in the academy. SSOs also coordinate the smooth running of the Curriculum Support Centre. SSO’s lead on the Behaviour Improvement Programme initiative. SSOs will also lead on ‘attendance’ On-Calls as students are settled into lessons.

There may also be the opportunity to take on the role of Mental Health Lead, with training provided. This would involve liaising with external agencies for example NHS trailblazers and external counsellors who provide on-site support for identified students, as well as overseeing external speakers delivering assemblies and workshops.

This is a permanent position offering an actual salary of £22,431 per annum (£26,079 full-time equivalent) based on working 37 hours per week, term time + 1 week of inset.

Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 24,000 students and employing 4,000 talented staff. Nearly 40% of our academies are judged outstanding overall by Ofsted, versus 15% nationally. The Trust is establishing three ‘clusters’ of academies: LAT Central; LAT West; LAT North. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.

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Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.