Education Welfare Officer - Truro and Penwith Academy Trust

About The Role:

Truro and Penwith Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an Education Welfare Officer to ensure that all schools are adhering to the Trust’s tiered response to target pupils with poor attendance, providing direct support to headteachers and pastoral teams to ensure that all barriers to pupil’s attendance are considered, supported and resolved through successful pupil support plans and/or statutory intervention. This is a key role where strong communication and organisational skills will be key to ensuring strong relationships are built with a range of stakeholders both internally and externally.

About You:

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following

• Experience of working with children and their families of the relevant age in a learning environment.
• Experience Working in Education setting.
• Experience of working with children with challenging behaviour.
• Knowledge / understanding of Education in relation to school attendance, children’s right to an education and legislation in these areas.
• Ability to create inspiring targeted pupil support plans based on a pupil’s needs to improve attendance and academic progress.

 The full requirements of the role can be found in the job description above.

 Benefits of Working with Us:

 As a leading Academy Trust, we are able to offer our staff a range of continued professional development opportunities alongside family friendly policies and access to the Local Government/Teachers Pension Schemes.

More on our benefits and a message for potential candidates from Anita Firth, Chair of the Board of Trustees can be found here.

How to Apply and Further Info:

To apply for this position please email a completed application form to recruitment@tpacademytrust.org, please ensure your name and the position you are applying are within the subject title of the email.

Please note we do not accept CV's.

The closing date for receiving applications is midnight Sunday 7th September.

If you wish to discuss this position ahead of applying, please email jwoodward@tpacademytrust.org

Interviews to be held on Friday 19th September 2025

TPAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application as part of their pre-employment administration. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Other pre-employment checks