Pastoral and Safeguarding Assistant

We are offering an exciting opportunity to become a Pastoral and Safeguarding Assistant in one of the country's most successful schools. Please see attached job description for further information. To apply for the role, please complete the attached Catholic Education Service application forms.

"Inspiring a living faith with hope and love"

In choosing to work at St Paul's we promise that will become part of a happy supportive and highly successful team.

Our staff benefit from:

• a deep-rooted commitment to staff feeling "known and loved" and supported as individuals every step of their career.
• a vibrant and modern environment and a real passion for learning and teaching. 
• extensive opportunities for professional learning and coaching including individualised support and working collaboratively both internally and within the Trust.
• their own laptop and iPad for all staff to support an embedded use of technology and reduce workload.
• students benefitting from technology and having their own iPads to support learning in the classroom and beyond.
• the support of a wellbeing team to care for staff happiness and welfare. There is also 24 hour access to the health assured helpline and app to support a wide range of personal or professional challenges.
• a culture where you are trusted and motivated to teach great lessons and take risks to move on our practice.
• exceptional leadership opportunities to grow and develop internally and externally.

Ideally you will be:

• a passionate and committed member of staff keen to contribute and continue to improve each day all we do at St Paul's and beyond.
• able to inspire and engage students with your passion and care for them as individuals feeling "known and loved" in their time with us.
• willing to never give the students second best in supporting them and inspiring then to achieve their God-given potential.
• a creative and innovate professional providing the best role model for the young people in our care.
• keen to engage in being part of a vibrant Catholic faith community.
• enthusiastic to contribute to the wider life of the school.
• someone with a hunger to always learn, grow and develop as a teacher or leader.
• a person with great energy, commitment and and a sense of humour.

We will offer you:

• dedicated professional learning and development every week.
• amazing students willing to learn and proud of being part of our school community.
• a school graded as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted and the Catholic School Inspection process since 2007 and in 2023 which is one deeply committed to continually improve.
• results consistently in the top 10% at A level and GCSE nationally.
• benefits including health and wellbeing support, reduced gym membership, cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes.
• care for you and your family not to miss important moments in life ranging from weddings to nativity plays.

We will interview as soon as we have strong candidates who have applied so would advise an early application.

What is St Paul's like?

St Paul’s is an 11-18 mixed Catholic comprehensive school with a total of 1130 students on roll including 230 students in the Sixth form. The College has a strong ethos and is a vibrant Christian community. We are committed to making sure we never accept second best for the students in our care and look to give them a full experience of education that supports their academic, personal and faith development.

Our 2022 results were:

GCSE: 86% 9-4 with English and Maths and a progress 8 score in the top 6% nationally. 

A2: 80% A*-B and 91% A*-C. This is an ALPS rating of ‘excellent” over the last three years and places the school in the top 1% nationally

Over 1 in 5 students have gone on to study at Russell Group universities. This year 91% of students were offered places at their first-choice university. In the last 3 years our results at GCSE and A level have been consistently in the top 10% nationally.

Essentially these results are built on a belief that we have a duty to ensure that every student achieves their potential with us. We also believe it is essential to give our students the best opportunities to develop as learners, personally and in their faith journey.

The College moved to our current site in 2004 on the outskirts of Burgess Hill. This is situated with strong travel links from Brighton and London. This gave us the unique opportunity to develop an innovative twenty-first learning environment. We have worked hard to develop the highest standards of learning and teaching and have built a national reputation for using technology to enhance learning. 

Students have access to learning ‘anytime, anywhere’ through a scheme which looks to provide an iPad for every student to support their learning at home and school. As you can imagine this transforms the way we teach and the way students learn. Our approach to learning and teaching is based on the accelerated learning cycle to ensure we develop students as learners not just their understanding of subject knowledge. We believe this will develop every student as an independent learner and give them adaptable skills to ensure they can become life-long learners.

Outside the classroom there are numerous opportunities for students to take part in a very wide range of activities - drama, sport, music, exchanges, away days, Duke of Edinburgh, retreats and trips. This includes opportunities for prayer and reflection as well as many examples of living an active faith through service, pilgrimage and fundraising.

St Paul’s is heavily over-subscribed and has built an excellent reputation in the community. We only recruit the best possible staff and have high expectations to ensure we develop the highest standards of learning and teaching. It is this “rich diet” in the classroom that engages and motivates students as well as leading to positive behaviour and an exciting learning environment. Each teacher is expected to work hard to keep up these high standards. All staff are given extensive opportunities to develop professionally and we only look to recruit and retain the best teacher. We invest highly in the best opportunities for staff development. Staff at St Paul’s tend to be young, dynamic and ambitious and there are plenty of opportunities to develop in the classroom and as a school leader. Many staff are promoted, internally or externally, very rapidly.

We are confident that we used this ‘outstanding’ grading as a springboard for further development, growth and success. We need to work hard to maintain and build on the current standards as well as looking to move forward and continue to improve at St Paul’s in every way.

Are you ready to be a part of this exciting opportunity to develop the next chapter?

The ideal candidates will be energetic, enthusiastic, ambitious and excellent practitioners who are willing to be dedicated to all that we believe in at St Paul’s. We believe St Paul’s is an exceptional place to work and we are excited at having the chance to appoint the right staff to help us move into the next chapter of our development as a College. By applying to work at St Paul’s you will have fantastic opportunities to develop professionally and gain opportunities for rapid promotion. We hope you will decide St Paul’s is the right place for you. We look forward to meeting you and will welcome the opportunity to show you around and share why we are so proud of our school community.