Pastoral Leader

Do you have experience of a Pastoral Leadership role within education? Join our thriving academy and support our students. We are currently looking to appoint an experienced Pastoral Leader at Harris Academy Peckham.

**About Us**

As part of Harris Federation, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education in London. With regular progression opportunities and outstanding CPD for support staff, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career,whether at Harris Academy Peckham, in one of our other 50 academies, or in our central team. Our aim is to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.

**Main Areas of Responsibility**
- To support the consistent implementation of the Academy Behaviour for Learning policy
- To be responsible for the calm and purposeful entrance and exit of students into/out of the Academy, this to include organising line-ups where appropriate.
- To work with the other pastoral leader as a team to ensure students are monitored and supervised before school, during break and throughout lunch;
- To be responsible for calm and purposeful movement around the academy between lessons.
- Managing detention organisation as necessary
- To act as the liaison between the Academy and the local community (including the Police) for any aspect of behaviour issues arising during the Academy day eg, truancy sweeps, liaising with local shopkeepers.
- Overseeing the entrance of students into the breakfast club in line with the agreed system;
- Ensuring that students enter the building in full Academy uniform and if not, following the agreed procedures;
- Ensuring that faculty points are awarded as appropriate;
- Ensuring that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet Academy standards particularly outside lessons;
- To design and deliver, in consultation with the Academy Leadership Group, a variety of agreed enrichment and sporting activities making maximum use of the Academy facilities.
- To follow through any issues to do with behaviour as required by the Academy Leadership Group, for example, taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues.
- To mentor students on PSPs, supporting successful achievement of targets and contributing to meetings/ reports in relation to student progress on PSP. This may include supporting in lessons as appropriate.
- To prepare student’s files for governor’s disciplinary panels or exclusion hearings.
- To present reports of student’s progress to PSP review meetings.
- To ensure that all issues that relate to student safety such as allegations of bullying are passed on to Academy colleagues, in a timely manner, for further investigation as required.
- To liaise with the local community, including the Police, including dealing with incidents received by the Academy

**Qualifications & Experience**
- GCSE Maths and English at grade C or above, or equivalent
- A level qualifications, or equivalent
- Knowledge of the Academy behaviour for learning policy
- Knowledge of the range of barriers to learning that students face
- Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
- Basic knowledge of first aid; e.g. emergency first aid course
- 3 years’ experience of working in an inner city school or educational establishment in a pastoral capacity
- Experience of dealing successfully with a range of behaviour issues
- Experience of working with staff to ensure excellent behaviour for learning is maintained
- Experience of working with families
- Experience of supervising a group of students for detentions, referral and internal exclusion as appropriate
- Experience of working with challenging students and finding ways in which we can meet their needs more successfully

**Professional Development & Benefits**

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide rangeof top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.
We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and manyother benefits.

**Safeguarding Notice**

**Equal Opportunities**

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for ourstudents and staff.