Pastoral Officer

36.75 hours per week / 39 weeks per year (term time plus training days)

NJC Grade G, Point 10-12

Overview

We seek to appoint a Pastoral Officer/Assistant House Lead to join an established team who support students with their behaviour and attendance and, in particular, to support students to reflect on their behaviour before reintegrating them back into lessons.

The ideal candidate will have a commanding presence, be firm, fair and consistent, and be able to relate to young people in a calm, supportive and positive manner.

The successful candidate will find the school is a purposeful and supportive learning environment, with a strong team of staff who are highly committed to raising student achievement. Each Pastoral Officer is linked to a House and works alongside the House Lead to support and motivate students in their House. We would also be interested in anyone with experience of running a remove or isolation room.

This is a permanent post. The hours of duty are 8.00am–3.45pm Mon, Wed, Fri and 8.00am–4.00pm Tue and Thurs, including an unpaid break of 30 minutes each day, term time plus training days.

Responsibilities

• To lead on supporting students to reflect on their behaviour and reintegrating them back into lessons;
• To have a high presence around the School and in classrooms throughout the working day, reinforcing the School's expectations with regards to our Behaviour for Learning Policy to students;
• To challenge, motivate and support students who have breached the School's Behaviour for Learning Policy to encourage appropriate behaviours in the future;
• To support with Progress Support Plans, with targeted intervention, for any allocated disadvantaged or vulnerable students in order to support them with securing outstanding progress;
• To remove a student from a classroom should they choose to display a behaviour that breaches the School's Behaviour for Learning Policy and ensure that the details of the incident are established and documented;
• To support with the investigation of incidents of behaviour that breach the School's Behaviour for Learning Policy that occur outside of the classroom and ensure that the details of the incident are established and documented and then shared with the Attendance and Behaviour Lead;
• To log incidents of behaviour for students that occur outside of the classroom that breaches the School's Behaviour for Learning Policy on a student's behaviour record and ensure that relevant parental contact is initiated;
• When required, meet with the parents/carers of an allocated student who has been issued with an internal exclusion to agree and set targets for improvement;
• When required, to support the Assistant Principal responsible for Safeguarding and Student Well-Being with re-integration meetings for any allocated student who has been issued with a suspension;
• To conduct Attendance Support Plan (ASP) meetings for allocated students and to monitor the plan, preparing an evaluation of it to present to the Attendance Lead at the end of the monitoring period;
• To work with and provide support to students and their parents and carers either at school or in the family home and to support with the completion of Early Help Assessments (EHAs);
• To contribute to general duties, some of which will be on rotation and with some specific tasks being allocated to individual team members.

Please note: we are not able to accept CVs.

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: £23,982.00-£24,432.00 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company pension
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location: In person