Welcome to Education Support recruitment portal.

This recruitment portal does not allow you to pause and return to your application, therefore please be ready to upload your CV, and a Supporting Statement before you proceed to click the apply button.  

Help improve the mental health and wellbeing of everyone working in education.

Education Support is the UK charity dedicated to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of teachers and education staff. Through our research, services and policy influencing, we work to ensure the education workforce thrives, so that pupils and students can thrive too.

We are now looking for an experienced Research Manager to lead research that shapes national understanding of workforce wellbeing and underpins our influencing and service development.

With funding from Welsh Government, we have embarked on our sixth year of delivering a programme of support to education staff in Wales. 

We are looking for someone with experience of facilitating groups, organisational culture and leadership, who genuinely cares about mental health, is passionate, curious, self-reflective, organised and can build relationships well.  

 

The successful candidate will be responsible for facilitating groups of leaders to successfully implement practices that improve culture and staff wellbeing in schools across Wales.

Using no more than two pages, please submit a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the requirements for this role as outlined in the job description. 

 

We are unable to accept CV's without a supporting statement as this will be used to shortlist.  (The job description is available to download from the website where you saw the job advert.) Speculative CVs will not be considered.
 
 Application deadline is 12 noon Friday 24 April 2026.  However, early application is encouraged as the vacancy may close early. 
 
If your application is shortlisted you will be invited to our selection process which will include attendance at an in person recruitment day on either Thursday 07 May or Friday 08 May. We are unable to change this date. You will need to be available for the whole day.
 

We ask that agencies respect our decision to recruit directly, and refrain from contacting us about this vacancy.