Pastoral Assistant

Coombe Girls’ School and Sixth Form is a comprehensive girls’ state secondary school, with a co-educational Sixth Form. The school is heavily oversubscribed and is committed to providing an excellent education to children in the local area. We are proud of the progress our students make from their starting points during their time with us: the school’s Progress 8 score is provisionally +0.65 and over 40% of GCSE entries were graded 7 to 9 last year. The school is proud to be part of the Coombe Academy Trust.

Our school is vibrant and diverse, serving the local area of New Malden. We value every individual and the rich wealth of experience, knowledge, values and beliefs they bring to our school. The experience and talent you will bring to our school will ensure we continue to provide the best education for our students and further increase the breadth of opportunity for the next generation. We particularly encourage applications from colleagues in underrepresented groups.

We are seeking to appoint a Pastoral Assistant who will work in partnership with our Pastoral team to promote inclusion across the whole school. The individual will be supporting pastoral staff and a range of young people, a number of whom present as vulnerable.

This role is 40 hours per week (8am to 5pm), term time only.

Our ideal candidate will have the following personal and professional skills and attributes:

Essential

• Good Literacy and Numeracy skills
• IT skills including good knowledge of Microsoft and Google Sheets
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic
• Ability to engage constructively with, and relate to, a wide range of young people from different backgrounds
• The ability to motivate and enthuse students
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• An ordered and systematic approach to organisation of workload
• Ability to work effectively with teaching staff Good interpersonal skills
• A commitment to working to strict deadlines
• Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
• Ability to demonstrate and promote good practice in line with the ethos of the School
• Understanding of safeguarding issues and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• Suitability to work with children
• A solid belief in the inclusion of all students in a full educational experience

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of the school’s Management Information and Safeguarding reporting systems - Arbor and CPOMS
• Creativity and flexibility