Attendance & Pastoral Lead

Bayards Hill Primary School

Grade 10   £29,935  - £32,261  pro rata; full time, 37 hours, 38 weeks plus 5 INSET days, term time plus three weeks to cover Designated Safeguarding Lead absence period;  

This post is fixed term maternity cover for one year anticipated to be July 2023.

Main purpose of role

The Attendance and Pastoral Lead will be responsible for monitoring attendance rates, reducing pupil absence and engaging with families to support them to ensure they fulfil their legal responsibilities.  To lead the school’s Designated Child Protection Officers team and act as a point of contact for safeguarding and child protection concerns. To liaise with outside agencies and wider professionals to ensure collaborative multi-agency working. To support and deliver interventions in a variety of ways for pupils that are subject to safeguarding plans, including Early Help.

What we can offer

Our school is part of the River Learning Trust; our collective vision is to be a Trust where pupils and staff thrive in schools which demonstrate:

•all-round education, academic success, lifelong learning and strength of character

•sustainable continuous improvement; no school standing still

•all schools being good and outstanding, or improving rapidly

•collaboration that is raising standards, and reducing workload

• where pupils, staff, parents and communities value all we do to support the best possible outcomes and experiences for our children and young people

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children. 

If you require any further information about this position, please contact Agnieszka Dazley, HR Manager at humanresources@bayardshillprimary.org

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office on 01865761656 to arrange visit.

How to apply :

Please complete online applications through TES here.

● Closing date: Monday, 25th April 2022  at 08:00 am 

● Shortlisting date: Monday, 25th April 2022

● Interview date  w/c 25th April  2022

The River Learning Trust and Bayard Hill Primary of school are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.  All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.  Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role.The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. You should contact the school if you are unsure if this role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link

RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. For further guidance for applicants click on the this link List of offences that are not filtered

Our staff are expected to maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, by not undermining fundamental British values including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

What benefits does the Trust offer to its employees?

● Annual pay increase for support staff (in line with grade boundaries) and for Teachers (subject to government framework and successful performance review)

● A Defined Benefit Pension Scheme with favourable terms for all employees

(Teachers Pension for Teachers; LGPS for Support Staff)

● Moving from the public sector? Those without a break in service can be reassured that RLT will recognise their continuous service.

● Employee centred and family friendly policies and practises that support you in and beyond your workplace.

● Offering flexible working wherever we can, in order to support the work life balance of our employees.

● Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave and parental leave.

● Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 24 days rising to 32 day plus bank holidays  per annum - dependent on grade of role and length of service) 

● Cycle to work scheme

● Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)