Education Welfare Officer

**Salary**:
SCP 27-31

**Job type**:
Full Time, Fixed Term

17 February 2025

**Job overview**:
Believe, Achieve, Succeed

**Education Welfare Officer**

**SCP 27-31**

**37 hours per week, term time, 39 weeks per annum**

**One-year fixed term in the first instance**

We have a clear vision at OAW: all students will have the opportunity to climb the stairway to University, or a real alternative, and lead a fulfilling and happy life. We are committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure that every child at our Academy achieves academic success. We firmly believe in a structured environment which is founded upon high expectations. We believe that all of our students, regardless of starting point, have the ability to fulfil their potential; and through great teaching and learning they will go on to become valuable and happy members of the community in which they live. Attendance is at the very heart of this.

We are seeking a dedicated person to join us as an Education Welfare Officer on a one-year fixed term basis, in the first instance. You will be joining a well-resourced Academy that has a relentless focus on raising achievement and driving attendance.

The key responsibilities for this role:
1. To support with the tracking, reporting and monitoring of attendance

2. To work with students, parents and carers to secure regular attendance at the Academies and ensure they are aware of their legal responsibilities.

3. To undertake day to day case work so as to improve levels of attendance.

4. To promote and safeguard the welfare of children you come into contact with.

Please see job description for full details of this role.

**Oasis Academy Wintringham is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.**

This post is covered by **Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016)**and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCEPT CV APPLICATIONS ALONE.

or telephone 01472 871811.

**Closing date: 17th February 2025**

**Interviews will take place: W/C 24th February 2025**

**About**Oasis Academy Wintringham**:
**Oasis Academy Wintringham**
- Weelsby Avenue, Grimsby
- North East Lincolnshire
- DN32 0AZ
- United Kingdom

+44 1472 871 811

Oasis Academy Wintringham opened in September 2007, replacing Wintringham School. The Academy transferred to brand new state of the art buildings in 2009 which were built on the existing site.

Oasis Academy Wintringham serves an intake which is taken from some of the most deprived wards in North East Lincolnshire with 53% of the 850 student body entitled to Pupil Premium funding and a significant number of students resident in areas including 1% of the most deprived postcodes in the UK. The intake is predominantly White British with an increasing though small number of ethnic minority students who are mainly eastern European.

We have a clear vision at OAW: All students will have the opportunity to climb the stairway to University, or a real alternative, and lead a fulfilling and happy life. We are committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure that every child at our Academy achieves academic success. We firmly believe in a structured environment which is founded upon high expectations and no excuses. We believe that all of our students, regardless of starting point, have the ability to fulfil their potential; and through great teaching and learning they will go on to become valuable and happy members of the community in which they live.

Oasis Academy Wintringham is part of the Oasis Community Learning family, a family of Academies established in 2004 with the express purpose of transforming learning, lives and communities through the development of Oasis Academies. Currently there are 44 Academies in the Oasis family across primary, secondary and post 16 phases.