Welfare Lead (Student Health)

The Cotswold Academy; Charlton Kings; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

The Cotswold Academy in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, invites applications for a Welfare Lead (Student Health). This part-time role is 32.5 hours per week during term-time, permanent contract, graded under NJC scale.

You will work to safeguard and support student wellbeing, liaising with staff, families, and external services. A full enhanced DBS check is required, and eligibility to work in the UK is essential. The school is committed to safeguarding and wellbeing of its pupils.

Qualifications

• The role requires a full enhanced DBS check.
• Eligibility to work in the UK is required.

Job description

Welfare Lead (Student Health)

The Cotswold Academy, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL54 2BD

Job details

Job role

• Other support role

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 32.5 hours per week term-time only

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Grade 6 point 15 of the NJC government pay scales

What skills and experience we're looking for

Please see application pack

What the school offers its staff

Please see application pack

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

The Cotswold School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff, Governors, visitors and volunteers, to share the same commitment.

Inclusive values

The values of friendship and knowledge, symbolised on our school badge, underpin all our learning and development activities and also ensure that we support the wellbeing of our students and staff. A non-selective school, we have a fabulous parent and carer community, who are supportive of and engaged with their children’s learning.

Thanks to excellent student outcomes, we have been named Comprehensive School of the Year in the South-West, 2025 in the influential Sunday Times Parent Power league tables. We have been rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in the last four consecutive inspections.

Building the future

We continue to build on our success: we opened a Sixth Form centre in 2018 to support our thriving 16-18 provision; a fully refurbished theatre in 2019; and a £5.8 million 10-classroom space, new gymnasium and modernised science labs in 2021. Since September 2021, Year 7 student intake has increased by 30 places.

Outstanding learning and development

Our ethos is simple: a commitment to excellent teaching and aspiration, which drives progress and attainment. Children who learn with us thrive academically and personally, with opportunities to take part in a huge range of extra-curricular clubs; writing competitions and debates; performances; community fundraising; student leadership; and careers events.

Aspirations and destinations

The great majority of our students stay with us into the Sixth Form and progress, in many cases, to Oxbridge and Russell Group universities, and a variety of other prestigious destinations.