Deputy Pastoral Director
Ark All Saints Academy
London
- Expired
- Salary:
- ARK MPS (Inner London) Negotiable
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 17 September 2018
Job overview
Job Description: Deputy Pastoral Director
Reporting to: Pastoral Director
Salary: Highly competitive; negotiable depending on experience
The Role
· To support the Pastoral Director in creating and embedding a culture that enables all scholars to maximise their achievements across the spectrum of school life.
· To monitor scholars’ academic progress and address the needs of scholars who require help to overcome their barriers to achievement, both inside and outside of school, through activities and strategies enabling them to reach their full potential.
· To liaise both internally and externally with agencies and individuals to support scholars’ progress.
· To work with relevant colleagues to ensure that the highest level of pastoral care is provided to every scholar and play an active role in resolving any issues of scholar welfare and support.
Key Responsibilities
Behaviour for Learning
· To support the Pastoral Director in ensuring that scholars have been successfully inducted in the school’s messages, policies and routines, and that these are understood and maintained throughout the year
· To communicate the highest expectations of behaviour and consistently and effectively implement the Academy’s behaviour management policy and procedures
· To establish and communicate the highest expectations of attendance and punctuality for all scholars
· To be responsible for effective follow-through around school culture and scholar discipline
· To work closely with relevant colleagues to ensure that scholars demonstrate positive behaviour and that the teams are fostering the right culture
· To successfully reinforce an ethos of high expectations, exceptional attitudes to learning and exemplary conduct.
· To personally demonstrate the persistence, insistence, and consistence necessary to inspire positive behaviour.
· To contribute to assemblies, pastoral initiatives and enrichment programmes
· To take responsibility for following up behavioural incidents which occur
· To support scholars in acquiring and developing learning dispositions and positive character traits
· To contribute to raising scholars’ aspirations through implementing systems for praise and recognition in conjunction with the Pastoral Director
Liaison
· To liaise both internally and externally with agencies and individuals to support scholars’ progress
· To attend conferences regarding scholar welfare and support and initiate follow up
· To liaise with the school’s behaviour development unit and outside agencies to set up interventions to support individuals and groups of scholars, as and when required
· To develop effective relationships with the parents/carers of the scholars and to communicate regularly with them.
Attached documents
About Ark All Saints Academy
Ark All Saints Academy is a four-form entry academy in Camberwell, south east London, which opened in 2013 as part of Ark Schools. We are a mixed Church of England school with strong values and a Christian ethos. We welcome children aged 11-16 of all faiths and none, and ask that all members of our family respect each other’s faiths and participate in all aspects of academy life.
Our four key values are integrity, responsibility, confidence and success. Hence, it is our aim to ensure both students and teachers are confident, responsible, successful and honest in every aspect of our school’s systems. This will enable our scholars to be well prepared for the next phase of their life, whether that is to go to university or in pursuing the career of their choice. Ark All Saint Academy aims to treat pupils as individuals and is keen to work with parents to develop and nurture the talents of each pupil. We want our students to succeed academically and socially.
As part of this preparation we expect scholars to manage their path to success. We believe that creating a supportive environment will help them immensely in that. Hence we make sure everyone at our school knows and follows our safeguarding and behaviour policies. The latter outlines what is appropriate conduct, that will allow each scholar to be successful each day. We believe that good and positive behaviour is achieved through relationships and an understanding of the impact that this has on individuals. At Ark All Saints we expect all scholars to behave well, all the time. There are no excuses for poor behaviour.
At All Saints, we have created a caring and collaborative environment throughout our school and encourage our teachers to support and help each other. We hold staff development in high regard and offer twice the standard number of training days – including our network-wide ‘Hub Days’ where peers join together to learn and share best practice. There are also opportunities for online training and bespoke learning and mentoring programmes. Please see our six points on what it's like to work at Ark All Saints Academy.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is designed back from the intended end point - enabling students to reach university. Ark All Saints Academy specialises in Mathematics and all Year 7 and 8 scholars follow the Mathematics Mastery programme. At KS3 there is a strong emphasis on the teaching of core subjects, every scholar in the school, regardless of age or ability gets at least one lesson of Maths, English and Science every day. If scholars are behind in these subjects we will give them extra time and support so that they can catch up and keep up.
Ofsted report
Ark All Saints Academy was rated as good in our 2015 Ofsted inspection with outstanding areas, such as safety and behaviour of students.
"Achievement is improving in English, mathematics, science and several other subjects. Teachers focus on scholars understanding work in depth and learning how to master problems. The provision for scholars’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding. Citizenship days extend scholars’ horizons, their awareness of how to be safe and their understanding of British values. Scholars are happy and proud to be part of the academy ‘family’. They feel safe and secure and behave extremely well. They value the tolerance and respect promoted by all staff."
Read more about Ofsted's observations or see the the full report.
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