Pastoral Manager

Are you an inspirational and determined individual looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about pastoral care and helping pupils become responsible young adults? Are you committed to ensuring all students in your care reach their full potential? Do you understand the importance of pupil safeguarding?

We are looking to recruit a Pastoral Manager to:

1. Establish and maintain an ethos of safety, resilience, and cohesion through assemblies and leading initiatives on competitions, rewards, SMSC, and PSHE (including character days).
2. Provide support and advice to students to promote their social care and personal development, considering learning, health, and safety.
3. Respond to and resolve relationship issues between students.
4. Provide general student support, monitor attendance, behaviour, standards, and detentions.
5. Follow up on attendance issues, including for targeted students, and liaise with parents as needed.
6. Collect and collate incident reports, following up directly when appropriate.
7. Issue, collect, and follow up on target cards for identified students.
8. Contribute to pastoral support plans.
9. Ensure compliance with policies related to child protection and safeguarding.
10. Liaise with external agencies on behalf of the team.

You Will:

• Hold GCSE English and maths at Grade C or above.
• Have experience working in a secondary school.
• Have experience in pastoral leadership.
• Use data effectively to assess and monitor student performance.
• Apply a range of strategies to influence pupil behaviour positively.
• Possess good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Remain positive under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Be a self-motivated and enthusiastic worker.