Pastoral Assistant

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

24 March 2025

**Job overview**:
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**Job Title: Pastoral Assistant**

**Salary: Up to £26,000.00 per annum**

**Location: New Barn School, Newbury, Berkshire**

**Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday**

**Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only**

**UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.**

**As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Pastoral Assistant to join our close-knit team at New Barn School, part of Acorn Education**

**Job purpose**

To support and promote a positive, caring environment, which focuses upon and addresses the needs of each individual child or young person. The role exists to guide all staff in the support approaches most successful for the inclusion of young people in the classroom to ensure that continuous learning is achieved during learning phases in the school.

**Duties**
- To manage pupils’ behaviour, delivering high quality care and support for emotionally vulnerable students
- To work in close collaboration with the Pastoral managers and behaviour and welfare lead - precise inclusion to maintain a consistent approach and service delivery to the young people.
- To practice with a high degree of competence, with the aim of reducing barriers to education and independent social interaction, leading to all pupils achieving their potential.
- To co-ordinate, all services in school to provide integrated provision for pupils.
- To work with specific Pupils and develop their resilience and skills within lessons and around the site to improve their engagement in their own learning.

**About The School**

New Barn School offers a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum to boys and girls, aged 6 - 19 years who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health complexities.

New Barn School takes full advantage of its beautiful settings and fosters a love for using the outdoor curriculum including forest school, farm experiences and horse riding. The School is within a commutable distance of Swindon, Oxford, Andover, Basingstoke and Reading and other surrounding towns and villages.

Our services offer a stable, secure and supportive environment, in which the pupils and young people we care for can develop the skills and confidence necessary to help them fulfil their potential.

Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education for vulnerable pupils. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.

**Why join Acorn Education?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover
- Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.**

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**About**New Barn School**:
**New Barn School**
- Long Barn, The Row, Welford, Newbury
- West Berkshire
- RG20 8HZ
- United Kingdom

+44 330 998 0435

New Barn School offers a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum to boys and girls, aged 6 - 19 years who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health complexities.

New Barn School delivers a structured programme of education, tailored to each student’s individual needs and taking into account their Education, Health and Care plans. Students are taught in small cohorts and individually, by fully qualified teachers and instructors. We take full advantage of our beautiful settings and foster a love for using the outdoor curriculum including forest school, farm experiences and horse riding.