Pastoral Support Officer

About us and the role

We are seeking to appoint a skilled, professional and enthusiastic Pastoral Support Officer to join our friendly and growing team. The successful candidate will work closely with the Assistant Principal leading on pastoral and Heads of Year in providing administrative support as well as leading and taking interventions for pupils to support behaviour, attendance and wellbeing.

Avanti Fields School is an is an all-through, faith designated (Hindu) state school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues its journey to outstanding.

The staff at Avanti Fields School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.

This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:

• Educational excellence
• Character formation
• Spiritual insight

Why should you apply

You will be working in a fantastic environment.

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

What will you do?

• Support Heads of Year and the assistant principal with pupil behaviour, aiming to nurture each pupil on their own journey of self discovery.
• Work with students who are finding it hard to integrate by providing support.
• Lead intervention strategies to support pupil behaviour, attendance and wellbeing.
• Liaise with parent/carers and external agencies.
• Provide Heads of Year and SLT updates on pupils groups and the effectiveness of intervention strategies.

For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description

What are we looking for?

• High level of literacy and numeracy skills
• Highly organised, ability to manage own workload and work on own initiative to meet deadlines
• Demonstrates initiative and takes personal responsibility for completion of tasks
• Resilience and motivation to support the pastoral and school team
• Ability to produce and record clear, concise and accurate information
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Services Limited is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.