Welfare Officer – Outstanding Secondary School – Sheffield

Welfare Officer Outstanding Secondary School Sheffield

Start Date: As soon as possible**
Contract: Full-time Permanent**
Salary: Paid to scale**

School Information

This highly regarded Outstanding secondary school in Sheffield is recognised for its strong pastoral foundations exceptional behaviour standards and unwavering commitment to student wellbeing. The school serves a diverse and vibrant community offering a nurturing environment where young people feel safe supported and valued.

Leaders prioritise wellbeing at every level from student mental health to staff workload and have invested significantly in pastoral staffing therapeutic intervention spaces and collaborative support structures. Students benefit from a calm respectful culture built on clarity consistency and compassion. Attendance and academic outcomes are significantly above national averages and parents frequently praise the school for its attentive pastoral care and safeguarding focus.

With increasing emphasis on proactive wellbeing support the school is now seeking a dedicated and compassionate Welfare Officer to join their expanding pastoral team.

Role Overview

The Welfare Officer will play a central role in supporting the emotional social and pastoral needs of students across the school. This is a highly student-facing role that requires patience professionalism and sensitivity.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting students with daily wellbeing concerns emotional difficulties and personal challenges

• Conducting welfare check-ins pastoral meetings and targeted intervention sessions

• Identifying concerns early and escalating safeguarding risks to the DSL where appropriate

• Working with external agencies including early-help teams social services and mental-health practitioners

• Supporting vulnerable students including those with SEND SEMH needs or attendance concerns

• Maintaining accurate safeguarding and pastoral records on CPOMS

• Running wellbeing programmes lunchtime clubs and resilience workshops

• Managing behaviour and restorative conversations using trauma-informed approaches

• Meeting with parents carers and families to provide guidance and updates

• Working closely with Heads of Year the SENCO and the DSL to ensure wraparound support

This role requires warmth empathy resilience and excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate will be passionate about safeguarding and making a significant impact on young peoples lives.

Pastoral & Safeguarding Team Information

The Welfare Officer will join a large experienced team that includes the Designated Safeguarding Lead Deputy DSLs Counsellors Behaviour Mentors and Heads of Year. The team operates collaboratively with weekly multi-agency briefings and ongoing CPD on mental health trauma-informed practice and safeguarding legislation.

Facilities include a dedicated wellbeing suite counselling rooms and quiet intervention spaces. The school strongly values continuous training and provides access to external mental-health qualifications.

Candidate Requirements

• Experience in pastoral support safeguarding youth work counselling or social care

• Strong understanding of SEMH safeguarding protocols and adolescent development

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to build trust with students from diverse backgrounds

• Confident in managing confidential and sensitive information

• Experience using CPOMS (training available)

• Calm empathetic and resilient approach

• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting student wellbeing

Application

To apply please send your CV as soon as possible.