About This Role
Are you ready to be a champion for student success? 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 educational setting, and effectively managing complex student cases in collaboration with external agencies.
The Role
The Learning Manager strategically monitors all students in their assigned year group, utilising 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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
The successful applicant must have experience of working in a school environment and demonstrable knowledge of issues affecting students and young people, including how to offer supportive assistance.
- Essential skills include the ability to effectively communicate 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 and manage competing deadlines.
- Relate sympathetically to students and recognise potential child safeguarding issues.
- Experience of working with other agencies that support vulnerable students is desirable.
What We Offer
Working pattern: 37 hours per week, term time only plus 5 days.
Start date: As soon as possible.
Apply exclusively via the WhatSchool platform.
Closing date: Midday on 29 March 2026.
Interview date: 14 April 2026.
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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 the 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.