Pastoral Manager

About the Opportunity

• Are you currently a Pastoral Manager looking for a new and exciting challenge? 
• Do you have the ambition, passion and drive to improve student welfare and behaviour?
• Are you firm, fair, professional but kind and caring at the same time?
• Do you have specific experience with vulnerable groups of SEND, PP and LAC?

Answering yes to the above? Read on!

Melksham Oak Community School is looking to appoint a talented, experienced Pastoral Manager who has the capability and confident presence to be able to remove students showcasing challenging behaviour from classrooms, with the ability to build professional, effective relationships with the student and their parents/guardians to strive towards improved behaviour. We will need you to be the ambassador, to:

• Be the first point of contact and liaison between families and other student/children's agencies, such as social services or child health.
• Be friendly, helpful and welcoming to parents/guardians and others visiting or making contact with the school.
• Be a good role model for students.
• Develop a relationship with students which is professional, firm, fair, and caring.
• Maintain an appropriate and professional distance with students in more informal situations, or when dealing with sixth form students.
• Implement behaviour policy and deal with student behaviour issues.

Now is an exciting time to join us here at Melksham Oak Community School! We are part of an established hub of Primary and Secondary Schools within The White Horse Federation. As a Pastoral Manager in the Wiltshire hub, you will become a member of a wider Pastoral team networking across the Trust over five neighbouring geographical counties, all within approx. 40min drive of each other. Are you and your career ready to be part of something big?!

Visits to the school are warmly encouraged - please come and safely in line with Government guidelines meet some of the staff and our students to see for yourself! Please contact 01225 792700 to make an appointment.

More information about the school can be found on our website https://www.melkshamoak.wilts.sch.uk/ and for full details and expectations of this exciting opportunity, please find attached our Job Description for you to review!

We look forward to hearing from you!