About This Role
We are currently looking to recruit a Student Support Officer to join our team . The successful candidate will work with small groups of students or on a one to one basis, to help them to achieve their potential and be successful both inside and outside school by providing support to overcome barriers to learning. It is desirable but not essential that you have prior experience of working with groups of 11 – 18 year olds.
Why here? Why now?
Team SUA are in an exciting phase of its development, having secured a 'Good' judgment in all areas in our last full Ofsted inspection, we continue to go from strength to strength and we are now oversubscribed in Year 7 and Year 8 and Year 9.
Our core values to Aspire, Believe, Achieve are upheld by a brilliant team of colleagues all striving to get the very best for our students. We continue to drive ambition and aspirations into the hearts and minds of all our learners. We are an evidence-informed academy and each year every member of the team completed a research project that supports our continued improvement. Our annual showcase is a celebration of the work colleagues have undertaken; we thrive on sharing the very best practice.
We also have brilliant wellbeing offer including protected development time, teaching and learning mornings/afternoons dedicated to staff development, as well as initiatives such as meeting-free wellbeing weeks and free toast at breaktime!
Benefits of being a member of Team SUA include:
• Joining a forward-thinking, well-aligned team.
• Plenty of opportunities to share best practice and celebrate success.
• Access to a vibrant wellbeing offer alongside our half termly wellbeing weeks.
• A supportive open-door policy from leaders at all levels.
• An academy day that is built around student and staff wellbeing where lessons end at 2.30pm on Thursday and Friday of each week.
For more information please contact Mrs. Caton at vacancies@suacademy.co.uk Closing date for applications is 9:00am on Monday 1st May 2026.