Pastoral Support Officer
Thurstable School
Essex
- £17,435 - £20,837 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Local Government Scale 5 -6
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2022
- Apply by:
- 8 July 2022
Job overview
Scale 5-6 £20,852-£24,920 FTE
£17,435 - £20,837 Actual
36.25 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
8.15am - 4.00pm and 9.30am to 5.15pm working on a Rota System
Thurstable School seeking to appoint a Pastoral Support Officer to join our pastoral team from September 2022. You will provide whole school pastoral support to our students to help them be motivated and engaged in learning, develop their resilience and capacity to respond more confidently to challenges, and support their mental health and wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual that can inspire our students to dream big and believe anything is possible.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record of working with children to support their social and emotional development and to achieve positive outcomes, ideally within a school environment, but potentially in Youth Work or Social Work. You will be an excellent communicator, have the ability to form excellent relationships with students, staff and parents. Understanding of and an ability to work with external agencies to support students within the school is also an advantage.
We believe this is an exciting time to join the school and help our students reach their undoubted full potential. If you can dream big, work hard and also have a sense of fun, and we genuinely believe that you will really enjoy working at Thurstable.
We welcome visits or conversations with prospective applicants. To arrange a tour or a confidential phone call, please contact us directly. Please complete an application form to apply.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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About Thurstable School
THE SCHOOL
A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school built on ethos and with a clear aim of building knowledge and growing character. At the heart of everything we do lies our core values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminated.
We are at an exciting time of our development as we strive to be a school of character and academic excellence and are looking forward to helping your child become the best version of themselves and achieve great academic outcomes whilst developing good character.
In the Summer of 2022 the GCSE results were “significantly above average” and in the top 20% of the country (Department for Education) and we are unashamedly clear that academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum.
We have the wonderful Thurstable Loves To Read programme as well as our innovative Morning Meeting programme based upon cognitive science and are committed that all students leave us with a reading age that matches their chronological age.
Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought and are committed to providing as many opportunities for the students to make memories from foreign exchanges, musical productions, Duke of Edinburgh schemes and numerous sporting opportunities.
We are committed to our mission statement of "Building Knowledge, Growing Character". We won’t get everything right, but we will always be honest, be led by our values and learn from the best schools in the country to make ours better.
OUR VALUES
Our core values ARE Thurstable. The values of Aspire, Respect and Endeavour are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school.
These values underpin our daily routines and are experienced in everything from the calm and purposeful atmosphere to the way our students interact with each other, staff and guests. We actively teach and role model these values and are very much part of our unique character curriculum.
We use the idea of 'Phronesis' to guide us. Phronesis is practical wisdom, a virtue which allows us to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.
We expect our students and staff to use phronesis in their daily life at Thurstable.
ASPIRE
We aspire to the best jobs, college and university places
- We aim to achieve the highest outcomes possible
- We pursue excellence and seek recognition
- We take risks and love learning
- We are curious and ask questions
RESPECT
We respect ourselves, others and the environment
- We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times
- We are on time and we have the right equipment
- We treat others in our diverse community as we wish to be treated
- We always follow instructions: first time, every time
- We are kind
ENDEAVOUR
We work hard to achieve success
- We focus on the tasks in hand and tackle them conscientiously
- We have the resilience, tenacity and grit to keep going when others give up
- We represent the school and participate fully in school life
- We support others to achieve
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