418 Education jobs in Mitcham

WPA Education Welfare Services - 01689 843322

Education Welfare Officer

Location: Lewisham and London N4

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week, 5 days, Term Time only and hybrid

Actual Salary: £30,000 per annum 

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual looking to influence a positive change. WPA Education Welfare Services are expanding therefore seeking to recruit Education Welfare Officers to work in Lewisham and London and surrounding areas.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide welfare support to families and schools where there are issues affecting school attendance. Education Welfare Officers regularly liaise with schools, parents and other agencies to provide support as necessary. Therefore, candidates must have strong inter-personal skills and the ability to problem solve.

Candidates are expected to complete reports for schools and therefore the role requires a high standard of communication both verbally and in written form.

The role may involve carrying out home visits so candidates must have a valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle. The successful candidate must also be able to adapt to working in different environments and be able to work under pressure and to deadlines.

SKILLS

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Excellent communication skills.

Ability to liaise with Headteachers and other Senior Staff.

Mediation Skills.

Ability to use IT including Word and Excel.

APTITUDE

Have a proven track record for delivering a service that enables pupils to receive their entitlement to education.

Support families, pupils in addressing all attendance matters and where necessary, enforcing relevant legislation to ensure that pupils have the opportunity to improve outcomes.

Be an experienced professional with the ability to reduce absence and increase attendance and achievement.

Have the acquired skills to ascertain information relating to safeguarding and a child’s welfare and to contribute to risk assessment and the decision-making process.

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Life Assurance
• Discounted shopping
• Access to Benefit Hub

The post holder must have a full driving license and use of a car.

We welcome applications from all interested candidates, who feel that they can add value to this role.

*WPA reserves the right to interview and appoint the right candidate so early applications are encouraged.

Reference ID: Lewisham and London /Jul25

Closing date: TBC

WPA Education Welfare Services - 01689 843322

Education Welfare Officer

Location: Staines and Woking and surrounding area

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week, 5 days, Term Time only and hybrid

Actual Salary: £30,000 per annum 

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual looking to influence a positive change. WPA Education Welfare Services are expanding therefore seeking to recruit Education Welfare Officers to work in Staines and Woking and surrounding areas.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide welfare support to families and schools where there are issues affecting school attendance. Education Welfare Officers regularly liaise with schools, parents and other agencies to provide support as necessary. Therefore, candidates must have strong inter-personal skills and the ability to problem solve.

Candidates are expected to complete reports for schools and therefore the role requires a high standard of communication both verbally and in written form.

The role may involve carrying out home visits so candidates must have a valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle. The successful candidate must also be able to adapt to working in different environments and be able to work under pressure and to deadlines.

SKILLS

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Excellent communication skills.

Ability to liaise with Headteachers and other Senior Staff.

Mediation Skills.

Ability to use IT including Word and Excel.

APTITUDE

Have a proven track record for delivering a service that enables pupils to receive their entitlement to education.

Support families, pupils in addressing all attendance matters and where necessary, enforcing relevant legislation to ensure that pupils have the opportunity to improve outcomes.

Be an experienced professional with the ability to reduce absence and increase attendance and achievement.

Have the acquired skills to ascertain information relating to safeguarding and a child’s welfare and to contribute to risk assessment and the decision-making process.

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Life Assurance
• Discounted shopping
• Access to Benefit Hub

The post holder must have a full driving license and use of a car.

We welcome applications from all interested candidates, who feel that they can add value to this role.

*WPA reserves the right to interview and appoint the right candidate so early applications are encouraged.

Reference ID: Staines and Woking /Jul25

Closing date: TBC

WPA Education Welfare Services - 01689 843322

Education Welfare Officer

Location: Lewisham and London N4

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week, 5 days, Term Time only and hybrid

Actual Salary: £30,000 per annum 

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual looking to influence a positive change. WPA Education Welfare Services are expanding therefore seeking to recruit Education Welfare Officers to work in Lewisham and London and surrounding areas.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide welfare support to families and schools where there are issues affecting school attendance. Education Welfare Officers regularly liaise with schools, parents and other agencies to provide support as necessary. Therefore, candidates must have strong inter-personal skills and the ability to problem solve.

Candidates are expected to complete reports for schools and therefore the role requires a high standard of communication both verbally and in written form.

The role may involve carrying out home visits so candidates must have a valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle. The successful candidate must also be able to adapt to working in different environments and be able to work under pressure and to deadlines.

SKILLS

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Excellent communication skills.

Ability to liaise with Headteachers and other Senior Staff.

Mediation Skills.

Ability to use IT including Word and Excel.

APTITUDE

Have a proven track record for delivering a service that enables pupils to receive their entitlement to education.

Support families, pupils in addressing all attendance matters and where necessary, enforcing relevant legislation to ensure that pupils have the opportunity to improve outcomes.

Be an experienced professional with the ability to reduce absence and increase attendance and achievement.

Have the acquired skills to ascertain information relating to safeguarding and a child’s welfare and to contribute to risk assessment and the decision-making process.

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Life Assurance
• Discounted shopping
• Access to Benefit Hub

The post holder must have a full driving license and use of a car.

We welcome applications from all interested candidates, who feel that they can add value to this role.

*WPA reserves the right to interview and appoint the right candidate so early applications are encouraged.

Reference ID: Lewisham and London /Jul25

Closing date: TBC

Are you a passionate and knowledgeable Religious Education Teacher who thrives on academic challenge and high expectations?

Do you want to teach motivated, high-achieving students in an environment that values scholarship, integrity, and intellectual curiosity?

The Opportunity

An outstanding grammar school in Watford is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Religious Education Teacher to join its high-performing Humanities Faculty from September 2025. The successful candidate will teach RE from Key Stage 3 through to A-Level, helping students engage with theology, ethics, and philosophy through thoughtful and academically rigorous lessons.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with exceptionally able and engaged students who relish challenge and discussion. The school fosters a culture of academic excellence alongside personal growth, and Religious Education plays a vital role in developing pupils’ critical thinking, empathy, and moral reasoning.

The School

This selective grammar school enjoys a national reputation for outstanding academic results, excellent teaching, and a supportive, aspirational culture. Students are ambitious, articulate, and eager to learn; staff are well-supported, and professional development is both encouraged and generously resourced.

With a long-standing tradition of academic scholarship, the school provides a rich and stimulating environment for both staff and pupils. The ethos combines traditional values with a modern outlook, and the school community is one of mutual respect, high standards, and a genuine passion for learning.

The Department

The RE Department is highly regarded, with consistently strong results at GCSE and A-Level. The team is collaborative, reflective, and dedicated to developing lessons that challenge students to think deeply about philosophical and ethical issues. Students are encouraged to debate, reflect, and express their ideas with confidence and sensitivity.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will bring:

• p>A strong academic background with a good Honours degree in Religious Studies, Theology, Philosophy, or a related discipline

• A recognised teaching qualification (PGCE with QTS or equivalent)

• Experience teaching Religious Education at KS3–KS5, ideally including A-Level Philosophy or Ethics

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• Excellent subject knowledge, a love for teaching, and a commitment to fostering high achievement

• Strong classroom management and communication skills

What the School Offers

• Highly motivated and courteous students who are a pleasure to teach

• A supportive and ambitious staff community

• Access to excellent CPD and opportunities for career development

• A culture that values academic rigour and professional autonomy

• Well-resourced classrooms and subject departments

Location: Watford, Hertfordshire
Start Date: September 2025

Application

If you are a dynamic and thoughtful Religious Education Teacher looking to inspire the next generation of scholars and critical thinkers in a top-performing grammar school, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please submit your CV and a brief covering letter to be considered for this exceptional opportunity.

Are you a passionate and knowledgeable Religious Education Teacher who thrives on academic challenge and high expectations?

Do you want to teach motivated, high-achieving students in an environment that values scholarship, integrity, and intellectual curiosity?

The Opportunity

An outstanding grammar school in Slough is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Religious Education Teacher to join its high-performing Humanities Faculty from September 2025. The successful candidate will teach RE from Key Stage 3 through to A-Level, helping students engage with theology, ethics, and philosophy through thoughtful and academically rigorous lessons.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with exceptionally able and engaged students who relish challenge and discussion. The school fosters a culture of academic excellence alongside personal growth, and Religious Education plays a vital role in developing pupils’ critical thinking, empathy, and moral reasoning.

The School

This selective grammar school enjoys a national reputation for outstanding academic results, excellent teaching, and a supportive, aspirational culture. Students are ambitious, articulate, and eager to learn; staff are well-supported, and professional development is both encouraged and generously resourced.

With a long-standing tradition of academic scholarship, the school provides a rich and stimulating environment for both staff and pupils. The ethos combines traditional values with a modern outlook, and the school community is one of mutual respect, high standards, and a genuine passion for learning.

The Department

The RE Department is highly regarded, with consistently strong results at GCSE and A-Level. The team is collaborative, reflective, and dedicated to developing lessons that challenge students to think deeply about philosophical and ethical issues. Students are encouraged to debate, reflect, and express their ideas with confidence and sensitivity.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will bring:

• p>A strong academic background with a good Honours degree in Religious Studies, Theology, Philosophy, or a related discipline

• A recognised teaching qualification (PGCE with QTS or equivalent)

• Experience teaching Religious Education at KS3–KS5, ideally including A-Level Philosophy or Ethics

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• Excellent subject knowledge, a love for teaching, and a commitment to fostering high achievement

• Strong classroom management and communication skills

What the School Offers

• Highly motivated and courteous students who are a pleasure to teach

• A supportive and ambitious staff community

• Access to excellent CPD and opportunities for career development

• A culture that values academic rigour and professional autonomy

• Well-resourced classrooms and subject departments

Location: Slough, Berkshire
Start Date: September 2025

Application

If you are a dynamic and thoughtful Religious Education Teacher looking to inspire the next generation of scholars and critical thinkers in a top-performing grammar school, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please submit your CV and a brief covering letter to be considered for this exceptional opportunity.

Position: Religious Education Teacher
Location: Secondary School in Woodford
Start Date: ASAP
Salary: Based on experience

Are you passionate about shaping the future of young minds through religious education? Our mixed secondary school in Hornchurch is seeking a Religious Education Teacher to teach Key Stage 3 and 4 students.

• Qualified Teachers: Experienced educators with a proven track record of success in delivering engaging History lessons.
• Experienced but Unqualified Teachers: Professionals or specialists with strong subject knowledge and experience in Religious Education, eager to inspire and mentor students.
• New Teachers: Enthusiastic individuals looking to gain teaching experience in a supportive environment.

• Strong subject knowledge, particularly at GCSE level.
• Commitment to fostering a love of learning in students.
• Ability to plan and deliver lessons tailored to varying levels of ability.
• Strong behaviour management and classroom management skills.

Prospero Teaching is able to offer the successful candidate:

• Free, accredited continued professional development courses including safeguarding and behaviour management
• In-house Training and Development Team

Prospero Teaching is acting as an employment business/education recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy. The successful candidate will be required to register with Prospero Teaching in order to fill this vacancy.

• Competitive daily rates.
• Access to ongoing professional development through Prospero Teaching.
• A chance to make a meaningful impact on students during this pivotal academic year.

If you're ready to step into this exciting role and share your passion for History, wed love to hear from you!

• Collate data
• Manage itineraries
• Communicate with various stakeholders
• Process fees and expenses for examiners 

•  Very good administrative and organisational skills
  • An appreciation and understanding of good customer service
  • Strong IT skills (specifically Microsoft Excel, Outlook and data processing systems)
  • Experience of working with databases and handling data
  • Ability to carry out a variety of office administrative tasks quickly and accurately
  • Ability to organise own workload, prioritise and multitask
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and cope with periods of high workload
  • A team player with a positive “can-do” attitude
• An interest in the arts and education would be beneficial 

Your new company
My client is a well-recognised independent regulator based in the heart of London and are looking for an Education Quality Administrator on a temporary contract for roughly 5 months, and they operate a hybrid model with office expectations on Thursday.

Your new role

The Education Quality Administrator is responsible for providing administrative support within the Quality Assurance, Monitoring and Improvement team.

• Administrative support where required for our quality assurance processes. This could include, for example:
  • Uploading to our online filing system and formatting documents submitted by organisations, so they are ready for colleagues to analyse.
  • Proofreading documents and uploading them to our online filing systems
  • Proofreading and publishing content for our web pages.

• Administrative support where required for our quality assurance of new medical schools and programmes. This could include, for example:
  • Processing administrative forms for education associates carrying out visits
  • Printing documentation packs and ordering name badges for visits
  • Preparing visit documentation so that education associates can access it online via our document-sharing portal
  • Organising travel, accommodation and meals for staff and education associates attending visits
  • Recording information about the visit on our online systems
  • Administering our records to log and reconcile education associate expense claims for budgeting purposes

• Monitoring our quality reporting system in Siebel (this is the system that logs actions that organisations need to implement to meet our standards called 'quality items'), letting colleagues know when items have been updated by an organisation and need to be reviewed, and reporting on pending and overdue items.
• Meeting support for a wide range of meetings across the team. Support would include:
  • Scheduling meetings
  • Calling for agenda items and populating agendas
  • Noting actions during meetings and keeping action logs
  • Maintaining a forward planner of agenda items for our larger meetings.

• Administering and reporting on our education associates, including expense claims to support section budget forecasting, training and annual appraisals.
• Manage emails coming into the team's shared mailbox, liaising with colleagues to ensure emails and queries are dealt with by the appropriate person within our agreed timeframes.
• To understand and apply our safeguarding policy and processes for protecting children and adults at risk of harm (including knowing how to recognise, record and report safeguarding).
• Any other reasonable duties may be assigned from time to time.

What you'll need to succeed

• To be able to work within established policies and standard operating procedures with a high level of accuracy, within agreed timeframes
• Effective use of IT systems such as Outlook, MS Word and Excel.
• To demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, adapting style and level of detail as appropriate.
• An ability to work independently with appropriate supervision, as well as an effective team member.
• To demonstrate excellent customer service, ensuring the needs of internal and external customers are met and our services and contact with customers are delivered positively.
• The ability to work within established service-level agreements whilst maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.

What you need to do now
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Residential Education Workers (REW) - Cranleigh, Surrey
Supporting the students who live on site in a residential children's home, providing care and support including at weekends and in the school holidays.
37 hours over 52 weeks working a rota to be supplied which will include weekend working
£26,951 - £7,976 per year With an additional ,000 Retention Bonus
25 days holiday plus public holidays paid
Experience not needed, full training and mentoring given
 
Our client is a Special School, College, Registered Children's Home and Adult Supported Living House with 250 staff contributing to having a positive influence on the lives, communication and wellbeing of children and young people with special needs. Their 70 students are aged 5 to 19 and have needs that include autism, language and communication disorders, ADHD, severe and complex learning difficulties and challenging behaviour.
 
As a Residential Education Worker, each day is different and they are looking for dedicated Residential Education Workers to join their residential care team on a permanent basis, supporting young people with complex learning disabilities, severe social communication and behavioural issues.
 
You will be supporting their young people within their residential houses on site, outside of the school day, at weekends and in the school holidays, helping them to develop interests and life skills. The team will work with teachers and therapists to assess and monitor progress of each student. You will assist with personal care, choosing and preparing meals, shopping, money handling and accompanying activities on and off site. During the school holidays our young people really enjoy trips off site, fully supported by their residential team. Recent trips include to the beach and safari park, adventure parks, meals out, inclusive cycling sessions and Airhop.
 
You will have the ongoing support of a skilled and dedicated management team.  Comprehensive training and mentoring includes learning about safeguarding, autism and positive behaviour support. They will equip you with the skills and confidence to support our young people, offer them boundaries and choices and provide safe and effective physical intervention when needed.
 
They are a non-maintained specialist school, college and on-site children's home working with complex and vulnerable children and young people, many with autism. This role gives you the opportunity to make a real difference to their lives, build life skills and to help equip them for adulthood.
 
You don't need experience. You need empathy, enthusiasm and compassion along with mental, physical and emotional resilience and the drive to make a real difference to the lives of the most complex children and vulnerable young people. You must be prepared to provide personal care (after full training) as some of our young people require assistance to remain clean and comfortable.
 
You will progress to a Senior Residential Education Worker level after 2 years working in the residential care team and on completion of a QCF Level 3 in Residential Childcare (subject to satisfactory progression and appraisal) earning £28,232 9,881. If recruited, you will be required to complete Team Teach positive behaviour support training as part of your week long induction before employment, refreshed annually.
 
You will need to be able to work 37 hours per week in a shift pattern which will be advised to you, including weekend working, and undertake sleep in duties as required (and will be paid the appropriate rate for sleep-in shifts).
 
For full details, please apply online or call (phone number removed)