Who We’re Looking For
We are seeking a caring, dedicated professional with experience supporting children and young people.
You will be:
- Driven, approachable, and empathetic
- Calm, confident, and resilient
- Organised and reliable
- Culturally sensitive and committed to the highest standards of professionalism
What Makes Us Special
- A caring, inclusive culture that celebrates diversity
- Strong relationships and a positive, respectful environment
- Exceptional pastoral support for students and staff
Benefits You’ll Enjoy
- Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential support
- Family-friendly policies and flexible working options
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Well-being initiatives, including flu vaccinations
- Nationally agreed terms and conditions of service
- Excellent transport links
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
- Champion and uphold the academy’s vision, values, and ethos.
- Implement pastoral, safeguarding, attendance, and behaviour procedures effectively and proactively.
- Ensure students are safe, feel supported, and receive high-quality pastoral care.
- Build and maintain positive, professional relationships with parents and carers.
- Identify, assess, and respond to students’ individual needs to promote their well-being and success.
- Collect and analyse information, lead meetings, and maintain accurate and timely records.
MAIN DUTIES
Pastoral, Safeguarding and Well-being
- Develop strong, supportive relationships with all students
- Provide appropriate pastoral support that is well-matched to the needs of students, dealing with immediate and underlying issues to prevent problems recuring or escalating
- Ensure students’ voices are heard and that they know what support is available
- Ensure students are safe and feel supported
- Administer first aid to students and staff as required
- Remain vigilant for signs of bullying and safeguarding issues
- Implement the school’s safeguarding systems confidently and consistently including safe and well checks
Promoting daily good attendance, punctuality, positive behaviours and attitudes to learning
- Ensure the school is a warm, welcoming, inclusive place that students want to attend
- Have high expectations for all students’ attendance, punctuality, behaviour, uniform, attitudes and progress
- Actively drive the school’s pastoral, attendance, punctuality and behaviour routines and rotas
- Respond to challenging behaviours in a calm and proportionate manner, use de-escalation strategies to help students self-regulate, and apply clearly defined consequences consistently and fairly when needed
- Support the implementation of the schools’ rewards systems
- Collect, collate, and share accurate information and evidence relating to investigations, suspensions, readmission and reintegration meetings, risk assessments, managed moves, alternative provision placements and permanent exclusions as required
- Ensure students engage with meaningful reflection and restorative behaviours
- Monitor students’ attendance, punctuality, behaviour, uniform and equipment, and intervene as required
Parental engagement and events
- Maintain positive relationships with parents/carers, acting as their main point of contact
- Ensure that issues relating to safeguarding and well-being, attendance, punctuality, behaviour, attitudes and progress are communicated clearly to parents/carers
- Ensure that parent/carer views and knowledge of their child(ren) are included in decision-making about support for their child(ren)
- Maintain a good working knowledge of statutory frameworks and guidance to provide accurate advice to parents/carers, and make them fully aware of their legal responsibilities and possible consequences where there are concerns
- Lead meetings and reviews with parents/carers relating to safeguarding, well-being, attendance, behaviour and the support available
- Lead admissions meetings and ensure that new student induction is effective
- Support the delivery of transition processes and community events
- Support with educational trips and visits from external agencies/speakers
- Collate and provide work for absent students where appropriate
- Ensure parent/carer details are accurate on the school’s management information system
Identifying, assessing and meeting needs, and reducing barriers to achievement
- Drive the school’s work relating to inclusion to ensure that students’ needs are being identified, assessed and met by liaising with colleagues and:
- Proactively gathering information to better know and understand their students
- Administering assessments and screening tools
- Creating evidence-based student profiles and support plans
- Delivering interventions based on students’ needs
- Attending meetings with pastoral colleagues, SENDCO, Safeguarding Manager, DSL and SLT to discuss and address students’ safeguarding, well-being, attendance, punctuality and behaviour
- Preparing information for and engaging with multi-agency meetings as required
- Monitoring and reviewing support and interventions and adapting as necessary
METHODS OF WORKING - The post holder must:
- Maintain strict confidentiality and adhere to data protection legislation and associated Trust policies at all times.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of, and commitment to, safeguarding and child protection, maintaining an awareness of relevant procedures and responsibilities.
- Comply with the Trust’s Health and Safety Policy and ensure safe working practices in the performance of all duties.
- Uphold and promote the principles of the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy in all aspects of the role.
- Adhere to all other relevant Trust and school policies and procedures.
- Undertake any training and professional development necessary to effectively carry out the duties of the post.
- Perform any other reasonable duties commensurate with the level and responsibilities of the role, as required by the Trust.