Mental Health and Pastoral Lead

**Mental Health and Pastoral Lead**:

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- Bentley High Street Primary School

28/02/2025

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

**Salary**

Grade 6 Scale point 7 to 11, £25,584 to £27,269 pro rata (Actual Salary £15,818 to £16,860)

**Contractual hours**

27

**Basis**

Part time

**Region**

Doncaster

**Job category/type**

Education - Non-Teaching

**Date posted**

05/02/2025

**Job reference**

REQ19354

Job description

Bentley High Street Primary School, Doncaster and Carr lodge Academy, Doncaster

Contracted hours: 27 Hours per week term time only (Monday to Friday)

15 hours per week at Bentley High Street Primary School and 12 hours per week at Carr Lodge Academy

Contract Type: Permanent

Responsible to: Executive Principal Head of School and Leadership Team

The Directors of Exceed Learning Partnership and Governors of Bentley High Street Primary School and Carr Lodge Academy are looking to appoint a passionate and experienced Mental Health and Pastoral Lead and Thrive Practitioner.

Bentley High Street Primary School and Carr Lodge Academy are part of Exceed Learning Partnership, a Multi Academy Trust that currently comprises of 10 Academies, Bentley High Street Primary School, Carr Lodge Academy, Edlington Victoria Academy, Hall Cross Academy, Hill Top Academy, Rosedale Primary School, Sandringham Primary School, Sheep Dip Lane Academy, The Mallard Academy and Willow Primary School.

We are committed to nurturing the academic, social and emotional wellbeing of our pupils. We believe that every child deserves a safe, supportive environment where they can thrive. Our dedicated teams work collaboratively to promote positive mental health and resilience among our pupils and their families. We have a comprehensive mental health strategy that is tailored to the needs of our pupils, staff and the whole Exceed Learning Partnership Trust community.

We foster a positive climate and strive for all staff to develop a successful career. To achieve this, we put the maximum amount of effort into creating the very best professional development opportunities. As part of Exceed, Bentley High Street Primary School and Carr Lodge Academy are collaborating with outstanding Academies and leaders, which ensures that we move forward in our own development and support all staff in their career development.

At Bentley High Street Primary School and Carr Lodge Academy, our aim is to foster a love of learning and develop enquiring minds to enable all our children to overcome barriers to learning and reach their full potential. This is an excellent role for individuals who are passionate about promoting positive mental health in Education.

We strive to ensure that our children value themselves as unique individuals, celebrating diversity and respecting differences. We work together as a community to enable all our children to grow to be responsible citizens and successful learners with high aspirations who know how to make a positive contribution to their community and the wider society.

Our Values permeate through everything we do, and we expect our pupils to be ambitious to achieve their very best through being positive, self-motivated, engaged in their learning and independent in their decisions.

Education is a partnership between home and school, we place a great deal of emphasis on our partnership with parents and the community. We believe that children learn best when home and school work together.

**Working in Exceed Learning Partnership will offer**:

- Excellent career development
- Structured programme of support for colleagues
- Talented and hard-working professional colleagues who are committed to children’s success across the curriculum
- The support of being part of a successful Multi Academy Trust
- The most up-to-date training and development opportunities
- Wonderful pupils and parents who support the schools in all their aspirations
- A highly committed and supportive Governing Board and Trust Board of Directors
- An inclusive ethos in which everyone is valued and respected
- An ethos that promotes the importance of physical, emotional and mental wellbeing
- Access to health and wellbeing support through our partnership with Schools Advisory service
- Free annual flu jabs

At Exceed Learning Partnership, we have a strong culture of school improvement, and professional development is at the heart of the Trust and all its academies. Our leaders have a wealth of knowledge and are highly experienced in improving outcomes for pupils.

As a Trust, we are passionate about meeting the needs of all our learners, ensuring their happiness and making the most of their individual talents. The focus on developing a lifelong love of learning is underpinned by rigorous attention to the development of essential skills and tools. We are committed to providing the very best educationa