Pastoral Leader
Oxford Spires Academy
Oxfordshire
- £29,269 - £32,076 per year
- Expiring soon
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 15 July 2024
Job overview
About this Role
Are you a highly motivated and experienced individual with a passion for supporting students?
Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can make a real difference?
If so, we are looking for you!
Oxford Spires Academy are seeking a Pastoral Leader to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in managing and motivating , as well as a passion for supporting students. You will be responsible for providing support to students and their families.
The role of the Pastoral Leader is a key role supporting the Heads of Years to guide and manage year groups. The role is significant and varied and includes supporting behaviour, safeguarding, attendance issues and encouraging participation in House events. The Pastoral Leader works closely with tutors and external agencies. To ensure consistency of expectations and behaviour during periods of teacher absence, the Pastoral Leader will also deliver a number of cover lessons throughout the week.
This is an exciting and unique opportunity for the right person. You should have excellent communication skills, be able to work as a highly effective team member and have exceptional time management skills.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.
It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’. Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, therefor if you are interested in the role we would encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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About Oxford Spires Academy
- Oxford Spires Academy
- Glanville Road, Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX4 2AU
- United Kingdom
Our school is proud to be part of Anthem, a multi-academy trust that creates ambitious and successful schools where every child thrives.
The Oxford Spires Academy vision is to be a beacon of excellence at the heart of our local community. We believe that all students are capable of making outstanding progress and attaining the highest level, whatever their starting point. We do not make excuses for our students: we firmly believe that there are no barriers to achievement that cannot be overcome by a determined and resilient student and a supportive school team.
We believe in providing exceptional education for local children, our inspirational teaching and fantastic relationships provide and create a safe, supportive and challenging environment where students can flourish. We are relentless in our pursuit of the small things that we believe might have a big impact on our school culture, environment, ethos and our students’ attitude to learning, we set exemplary standards and aspirational goals. We believe in strong relationships, pride, community, family and support and every member of our staff is a role model to our young people.
We are extremely proud to be a multicultural, multi-faith community. We celebrate the diversity of our staff and student population and we encourage students to celebrate their own heritage but equally to be proud British citizens. The bedrock on which our school community is built is the excellent relationships between staff and students and between students themselves.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, visitors, and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, suitable references, and other essential checks. Staff involved in recruitment and selection of employees are trained in safer recruitment, and all our staff and volunteers undertake Child Protection training.
Employee Benefits Include:
- Pension schemes - TPS (Teachers) and LGPS (Non-Teachers)
- CPD certified opportunities - available to all employees
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - providing wellbeing and confidential advice services
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Health Shield Scheme
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