Pastoral Manager

Pastoral Manager

SO1 pt 29 to 31 (£24,799 to £26,331)

36 hours per week, Term Time Only

Commencing as soon as possible

Heathcote School is an 11 – 18 School that has a new Headteacher and a new vision. The school is on a rapid journey of improvement ensuring the ‘good’ status (Ofsted 2014) is retained and for the school to ultimately become ‘outstanding’ in all areas. 

The School Improvement Plan (2017 – 2020) focuses on four key areas:

· Building at all levels an ambitious culture of high challenge and low threat enabling Heathcote to be the school of choice for staff and parents.

· Ensuring the best possible learning and leadership of learning, across the school.

· Ensuring safety is at the heart of everything we do and standards of behaviour and attendance are exemplary within the school and community.

· Giving all pupils equal opportunities to make maximum progress. 

We are looking to recruit a Pastoral Manager to work within our Inclusion Team and to take a lead role within the school in order to address the needs of students who have safeguarding issues or need particular help to overcome barriers to learning or relationship issues.

The successful candidate must have experience of working with young people in an educational setting with skills to help students overcome barriers and manage behavior appropriately. They will need to be adaptable and flexible with the ability to relate well to secondary school students and to inspire and support others to achieve a common purpose. An excellent level of literacy is needed to ensure any paperwork relating to students is completed accurately and clearly. Knowledge and experience of dealing with safeguarding issues is also essential.

The school puts well-being and development at the heart of its work and we have very talented staff who are encouraged to grow, develop and work collaboratively, within school and with local schools, and to be the best they can be. We are working to ensure school improvement in a high challenge, low threat way and enable robust systems and structures to ensure consistency in all areas, encouraging the growth and development of all.  The school has excellent resources and a stunning site close to the forest. 

We welcome and encourage visits to the school and if you would like to arrange a visit please call HR on 0208 498 5128

Completed application forms should be emailed to recruitment@heathcote.waltham.sch.uk

Closing date for receipt of applications:  Monday 29th October 2018

Please note: applications will be considered as they are received and we reserve the right to close this position before the date specified above. We therefore urge candidates to submit an application as soon as possible or telephone 0208 498 5128 and speak to the HR Manager to discuss the role further.

Heathcote School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure.