Sixth Form Support Officer

JOB TITLE: Sixth Form Support Officer Closing Date: 09:00 - Monday 29 June Date posted: 9 June 2026 Salary: Scale 5 £32,070 - £33,987 pro rata Contract type: Full Time - term time, plus two weeks. Contract term: Permanent Start date: 1 September, ideally with some training days in August "Staff are proud of the work they do. Building on the long-standing traditions of the school, staff support the development of 'courteous, respectful and calm' young men, reflecting the school's well-established values." [Ofsted Report] This is an opportunity to join a very successful school. These posts reflect the success of the school in working with young people to be the best they can be. We wish to appoint enthusiastic and highly competent colleagues to support a number of aspects of student support across the school. These roles within the pastoral structure help to ensure that standards are maintained at a very high level. The responsibilities vary but include a range of communications with students, parents/carers and outside organisations; supervision of students; and a number of administrative and additional tasks. We are looking for:

• relevant successful experience
• the potential for further development
• an ability to build excellent working relationships
• a range of skills appropriate to the post
• excellent organisation and accuracy in work, and
• excellent communication skills and fluency in English.
Our School Isleworth & Syon School is a great place to work and a place where all staff can develop. Our staff are energetic, dedicated and absolutely committed to working together to ensure that our boys (and students in our mixed Sixth Form) remain ambitious and highly successful. We are proud of our long history, have a commitment to excellence, and are a high-performing school. Our Ethos Relationships are critical to our success and to our future. We empower all our staff and encourage everyone to work collegially to achieve the best outcomes possible. Our school is systematically organised and processes are tightly managed in all areas to allow staff to meet their potential and in order to create excellent learning and working environments. Across the school, students benefit from our insistence on high standards and achievement, an exceptional range of extra-curricular activities, and a focus on traditional values. We expect all staff to contribute to this ethos. Our Location We are situated in a tree-lined neighbourhood of Isleworth, a vibrant area of West London. The school is close to Osterley Park and a short hop from central London by tube (Osterley is a 10-minute walk) or rail (Isleworth is a 7-minute walk). There is easy access to the M3, M4 and Heathrow Airport. Visit Us We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce. We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents. You are very welcome to arrange to visit us and to experience why we are such a successful school and a fantastic place to develop your career. Please see here for the wide-ranging benefits offered by our school. Application details Further recruitment details, including a School Information Pack, a role information document and an application form are on our website under 'Vacancies'. Please ensure that all sections of the form are completed. Isleworth and Syon School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Checks will include references, and other pre- and post-employment checks, including, where appropriate police check from other countries. In addition, if shortlisted, we will undertake online searches to ensure the suitability of applicants who aspire to work in our school. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered 'protected' and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974. More about Isleworth & Syon School Type: Mainstream School Address: Ridgeway Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 5LJ Phase: Secondary with Sixth Form Telephone: Funding status: State - Academy Gender: Boys and mixed Sixth Form email: school@islewothsyon.org Age range: 11-19 years


• relevant successful experience
• the potential for further development
• an ability to build excellent working relationships
• a range of skills appropriate to the post
• excellent organisation and accuracy in work, and
• excellent communication skills and fluency in English.
  
  Isleworth & Syon School is a great place to work and a place where all staff can develop. Our staff are energetic, dedicated and absolutely committed to working together to ensure that our boys (and students in our mixed Sixth Form) remain ambitious and highly successful. We are proud of our long history, have a commitment to excellence, and are a high-performing school.