Pastoral Manager

Pastoral Manager

Required as soon as possible

Fixed Term 12 months,

Full time (37 hours per week)

Term time only (39 weeks per year)

Grade 7 SCP 18-23 FTE £29,269 - £32,076 pay award pending

Actual Annual Salary £25,491 - £28,444 pay award pending

We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools, one primary school, and two alternative provisions, with over 750 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley and Staffordshire in the West Midlands.

At Invictus we are values driven and as such believe ‘anything is possible’. Our alternative provision estate supports learners to share the same ethos; young people who are most vulnerable are supported to flourish and experience success. Both Greenhill Alternative Learning in Halesowen and Invictus Revive Learning Base at Leasowes aim to support young people in KS3 and 4 who have been unable to achieve in a mainstream setting.

We are seeking a dedicated pastoral manager to support young people based in our settings. The post holder will be the first point of contact for pastoral support to students.

This is a full time position based in well-equipped and well-resourced learning environments. If you are resilient, hardworking, and organised we would welcome your application to join the ‘dream team’.

Working under guidance of the Director for Alternative Provision the successful candidate will provide pastoral support to students in alternative provision to overcome barriers to learning in order to achieve excellent outcomes.

Regular duties would include:

• To act as a deputy DSL as required, ensuring strategic priorities are achieved to keep vulnerable children safe.
• Ensure support packages have a clear focus on learning, progress and the development of skills and competencies.
• Contribute to coaching, mentoring and sharing good practice, across AP and with partner schools.
• Contribute to individual pupil records ensuring they have up-to-date details of the curriculum support, input and alternative intervention / support that has been provided.
• Support the drive for excellent academic results by ensuring pupils needing intervention receive support, encouragement and guidance as appropriate and necessary to raise individual pupil achievement and aspirations.
• Demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set stretching targets for the whole AP community.
• Empower a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning.
• Ensure that professional development contributes to strategic priorities and enhances learning
• Develop the shared vision for the school
• Involved in the development and maintenance of a high-quality positive learning environment to raise standards
• To support staff in making sure high-quality intervention programmes are in place when underachievement is identified.
• Manage, plan and oversee suitable support packages for pupils in their reintegration to school following a period of exclusion/absence.
• Keep in contact with parents of pupils in the year group, and in particular, with those needing more careful monitoring relating to attendance and punctuality, behaviour, bullying or medical needs - ensuring positive family support and involvement.
• Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying – keep records of all bullying incidents and actions taken.
• Safeguarding and child protection responsibilities, including first point of call for students.

Closing date: Monday 2nd September 2024, 12 noon

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Interviews due to take place: W/c 9th September 2024

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023, as a part of our recruitment process we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image or other content that could cause reputational damage to the trust and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover anything during our searches this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during interview.

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2023 – KCSIE 2023

This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.

Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance/dbs-filtering-guide

As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.