Pastoral Lead

Job Tile:         Pastoral Lead

Location:        New Perspectives School, Birmingham

Salary: £29,174 - £33,486 per annum dependent on experience and qualifications

Closing Date:  28/4/2023

Hours of work: 37.5 per week - term-time only plus training days

Contract type:   Permanent

Enhanced DBS Check Required: Yes

Are you looking for a new full time Pastoral role which will challenge you and give you new skills?

This is an exciting time to join Care Perspectives Ltd as we look forward to the opening of our new SEN School (New Perspectives School) and continue to expand and grow our provision in the West Midlands.

New Perspectives School is a small independent SEMH specialist day school for key stage 2-5, catering for students with social emotional and mental health difficulties who may have a range of complex needs. New Perspectives School is looking for a number of support staff to join our growing team. We recognise that working with young people with SEND can be challenging and a full programme of training and support is offered. We would expect you to adopt creative, innovative, and highly personalised approaches to engaging young people in learning and enabling them to make progress and have a new perspective to education.

This is a joyful and rewarding job and one where you can really make a difference to the lives of young people and their families.

Applications are welcomed from experienced Pastoral Lead who have experience of working directly with children or young people in any setting and who are willing to work with others as part of a strong team.

Job Description

• To lead on co-ordinating appropriate interventions for students in your whose attendance, behaviour or achievement is a concern
• To manage and implement all required sanctions and rewards
• To follow all safeguarding procedures and to work closely with child protection leads to ensure identified students are closely monitored.
• To contribute ideas to the development and improvement of pastoral support assisted by information and experiences of good practice in other establishments
• To ensure continuity and progression of pastoral provision throughout the school.
• To provide intervention strategies to students who experience barriers to their learning.
• To liaise with relevant colleagues to agree appropriate mentoring for any disadvantaged or disaffected students not already identified and/or those at risk of disengagement.
• To work with identified vulnerable students and any others requiring support.
• To work with students and in partnership with parents, appropriate staff and other agencies to bring about improved behaviour and attendance at school.
• To liaise with external agencies regarding student welfare, pastoral, transition, health and attendance issues and ensure that all staff are aware and act on this information.
• To support and direct the pastoral team
• To challenge and motivate students, promote and reinforce self-esteem, and support students’ access to learning using appropriate strategies and resources
• To support and mentor students who are consistently making poor choices to resolve issues that are creating barriers to learning.
• Calm and diffuse difficult situations involving students, staff and parents/carer’s
• To encourage students to become more actively involved in school life including charity and community work
• To plan, co-ordinate, deliver and support pastoral assemblies and form activities
• To lead, plan and deliver a non-core subject

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an experienced Pastoral Lead in a school environment
• Experienced in planning and delivering a non-core subject
• Experienced and confident in dealing with challenging behaviour
• Experienced in using a range of strategies and interventions to re-enagage pupils into learning and address negative behaviour
• Experience in working with pupils with SEN and EBD
• Experience in directing pastoral staff to best support pupils and address behaviour
• Experience engaging with parents/carers
• Experience in using school MIS and safeguarding systems
• Knowledge of most recent KCSIE updates
• Hold DSL Level 3 Certification (Desirable)
• Experience in working with external agencies
• Be of strong character with a resilient attitude and a calm manner
• Safeguard all students in our School
• Engage in ongoing CPD

Here are just some of the benefits of working for us:

• Rewarding work helping our Children and young people reach their potential
• Friendly, small passionate school community
• Career development opportunities to help you reach your own personal development
• Competitive salary
• We offer a structured 2-week induction programme including face to face training, online modules
• Free DBS check
• Free school lunch
• Recommend a friend referral scheme with financial rewards
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Company Pension scheme

How to apply: Application forms can be

requested, please email c.dhir@careperspectives.co.uk or call us on 07897

551992. Please note that CVs are not accepted.

Safeguarding: This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks in line with Safer Recruitment, including:

Teaching: Enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

References: All applicants will be required to provide at least two suitable referees

Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

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