Pastoral Assistant

**Salary**:
32.5hours per week 39 weeks per year

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
April 2025

17 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**SHAVINGTON ACADEMY**

**Rope Lane, Shavington, Cheshire CW2 5DH**

**Tel: 01270 260717**

**Website**:
**Headteacher: Mrs Emma Casewell**

**Applications are invited for the permanent post of**

**Pastoral Assistant**

**Required to start April 2025**

**Annual Salary: £19,086**

**32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year**

**Monday to Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm**

**Overall Purpose of Post**

To be the key point of contact for pupils, staff and parents/carers in relation to pupil behaviour and barriers to learning, for all year groups.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Support pupils in their learning and encourage positive attitudes and behaviour in and around school by being available throughout the day for pupils
- Work effectively with pupils and staff to promote engagement and positive M4L
- Develop strategies to de-escalate problems, conflict and challenging behaviour
- Monitor identified areas across the Academy daily
- Support pupil behaviour strategies in the Academy, including detention support and working directly with pupils and their teachers
- Liaise with Deputy Pastoral Leaders/Pastoral Leaders as appropriate to support a positive experience for pupils
- Liaise with individual teachers, departments and faculties in relation to behaviour and learning of individual pupils and/or groups of pupils
- Carry out duties relevant to support for pupils entitled to pupil premium and other vulnerable pupils
- Hold break and lunchtime detentions/clubs
- To support events and form positive relationships with parents/carers through open channels of communication
- To support marketing activities/initiatives relating to assigned year groups
- Act as a first aider in school, with appropriate training

Notwithstanding the detail in this job description, the job holder will undertake such work as may be determined by the Headteacher/Governing Body from time to time, up to or at a level consistent with the Principal Responsibilities of the job.

**Shavington Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our pupils and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment**

Interview Date week commencing: 17th or 24th March 2025

Application packs are available from the Academy website:
Applications should be returned to

**About**Shavington Academy**:
**Shavington Academy**
- Rope Lane, Shavington
- Cheshire
- CW2 5DH
- United Kingdom

+44 1270 260717

About Shavington Academy

Who we are

Shavington Academy has been a Multi Academy Trust since 1st September 2015 for pupils aged 11-16, serving the villages and conurbation to the South of Crewe. Our catchment includes Wistaston Church Lane, The Berkeley, Shavington, Weston and Wybunbury Delves Primary Schools, though we draw pupils from across Crewe and South Cheshire. Our current school population is 875 pupils; we are currently in a process of significant expansion, due for completion September 24 which will see our PAN increase to 1100 with a year group intake of 210 pupils. The academy’s growing reputation and a number of housing developments locally have attributed to the growth of the academy.

We are very proud of our Academy and believe that our mission statement ‘Together we enjoy, aspire, create and achieve’ underpins our ethos and our collective drive for all pupils both academically and personally. Here at Shavington, we value the ethical and moral development of our pupils, promoting integrity, kindness, gratitude, respect and tolerance across all elements of Academy life, as well as promoting academic success.

Professional development

All teachers have professional development opportunities, designed for their career point, and CPDL time is focused on need whether that is whole academy, departmental or at individual level.

We continually review our process and practice to consider the work life balance of our teachers - please see our ‘Staff Benefits’ document for this detail.

We are committed to supporting our Early Career Teachers through the accredited ECT framework and also deliver an ‘Aspiring Leaders’ Programme for third year teachers and beyond, moving on to ‘Middle Leadership’ and then ‘Senior Leadership’ as expertise and experience grow.