Assistant Pastoral Lead

**Position**: Assistant Pastoral Lead

**Responsible to**: Pastoral Lead

**Responsible for**: Outreach / Pastoral Support & Safeguarding

**Grade**: C £27,964 - £30,146

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent - AYR

**About the role**

We are looking for a dedicated Assistant Pastoral Lead to join our team. You will assist in the educational, personal, and social development of students, helping them engage fully with their learning and achieve their potential. You will also support the smooth running of the academy on a day-to-day basis.

Key Responsibilities:

- Relationships: Establish effective relationships with students, staff, and external agencies. Monitor attendance and punctuality, provide intervention and mentoring, and engage with parents and carers.
- People Management: Provide advice and structured intervention to support positive student behaviour and attendance. Supervise students, organise homework clubs, and promote inclusion.
- Resource Management: Manage resources, maintain records, and produce study materials. Support the operational running of exams. Ensure high standards of communication and behaviour, and support the organisation of parent workshops.
- Decision Making: Make informed decisions regarding student behaviour and progress. Monitor attendance and punctuality, and ensure health and safety expectations are met.
- Work Demands: Manage a busy workload, respond to ad-hoc enquiries, and maintain confidentiality.
- Physical Demands: Assist with manual handling and personal care as needed. Escort and supervise students on educational visits.
- Working Conditions: Handle challenging situations, manage student behaviour, and maintain resilience in an emotive environment.

**About Snowdon Village**

Snowdon Village is one of the Alternative Learning Provisions within the Cabot Learning federation. We have 5 sites, The Nest, Engage, Bristol Futures Academy, City School Head Quarters and City School Kingswood.

Our core values are:

- Positivity
- Equity
- Resilience
- LOVE

Snowdon Village is the only school in Bristol to have achieved Trauma Informed and Mental Health Aware school status. We pride ourselves on working in a trauma informed way and take a ‘child centred approach’ to education. At Snowdon Village City School we are big advocates of ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’ and recognise that some children need a creative and innovative curriculum to help re-engage them back into school life.

**Your opportunity**:
We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment. We provide excellent training and development opportunities within the Federation, including a full induction programme for early career and experienced teachers. Training is both local and/or delivered through our excellent stand-alone training facility at the CLF Institute. For teachers, the CLF Institute aims to provide a continuum of development through each career stage from initial teacher training (ITT), for Early Career Teachers (ECT), recently qualified teachers in their early career development, to successive stages of leadership through to Headship and beyond.

**About the Cabot Learning Federation**:
The Cabot Learning Federation is a diverse Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) in the South West. We are proud to serve 18,000+ pupils who all attend ten secondary academies, thirteen primary academies, an all through provision, a studio school, a discrete Post 16 provision, two alternative provision schools and three SEMH special schools.

We are proud to be part of diverse communities in the region and celebrate the richness of cultures, faiths and backgrounds of our students. We aim to develop a curriculum that is responsive to our pupil’s needs and reflects their diverse interests and backgrounds.

Cabot Learning Federation Benefits: Click here to access a full list of Cabot Learning Federation benefits.

**How to Apply**:
Please download the job description and person specification at the bottom of this page.

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**Safeguarding and pre-employment checks**:
The Cabot Learning Federation are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role has significant responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice within the academy. This role involves working with children on a daily basis and is therefore in regulated activity.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £27,964.00-£30,146.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 42652