Learning Manager - Student Support in Barnsley

Job Description

Role: Learning Manager (Temporary Maternity Cover)

Academy: Outwood Academy Carlton

Start Date: 01/09/2026

Salary: £26,690 (FTE £30,024)

Working Pattern: 37 hours a week, full time

Join us as a Learning Manager, where you will play a critical role in nurturing student potential by focusing on welfare, strategic intervention, and data‑driven monitoring. This position is perfect for someone passionate about removing academic and behavioural barriers to learning, ensuring all students thrive in a supportive setting, and effectively managing complex student cases in collaboration with external agencies.

Responsibilities

The Learning Manager strategically monitors all students in their assigned year group, utilizing MIS systems and Praising Stars data to identify concerns and action appropriate intervention strategies. Key duties include acting as the first point of contact for behaviour related incidents and supporting the consequences process, including contacting parents regarding exclusions and supporting readmission meetings. A core function is inter‑agency liaison, including chairing Children in Need and Team Around the Child meetings, undertaking referrals for families, and supporting the Education Welfare Officer with truancy sweeps. They also coordinate year group logistics such as vaccinations and photographs and handle attendance checks.

• Drive Intervention: Use the Praising Stars system and MIS data to track academic progress and behaviour, intervening early to support students at risk.
• Safeguarding & Welfare: Act as a key link for safeguarding, attending case conferences, recording incidents, and chairing multi‑agency meetings (CIN/TAC).
• Attendance & Behaviour: Lead on attendance checks, conduct home visits with the EWO when necessary, and manage student readmissions and exclusions.
• Strategic Reporting: Analyse half‑termly data to produce intervention booklets and present findings to the Senior Leadership Team.
• Operational Support: Supervise key social times (breakfast/break/lunch), coordinate year‑group events, and respond to internal radio calls for lesson support.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a school environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge of issues affecting students and young people, including how to offer supportive assistance.
• Effective communication skills with a wide range of audiences, verbally and in writing.
• Proficiency in using standard ICT packages, including Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work well under pressure, manage competing deadlines, and recognise potential child safeguarding issues.
• Experience working with other agencies that support vulnerable students (desirable).

Benefits

• Competitive salary, automatic pay progression, and enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Access to diverse CPD opportunities, apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
• Flexible family policies, enhanced occupational benefits, and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays for full‑time staff (part‑time staff pro‑rata).
• Dedicated mental well‑being strategy, free on‑site parking, employee discounts, and Employee Assistance Programme.

Contact: Emily Smith, HR Assistant, 01226 728494, e.smith@carlton.outwood.com.

Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.