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Pastoral Leader

Pastoral Leader

Harris Academy Peckham

Southwark

Salary:
Grade 6 (Inner London): £29,022-£31,170 FTE
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
ASAP
Apply by:
4 January 2022

Job overview

Do you have experience of a Pastoral Leadership role within education? Join our thriving academy and support our students. We are currently looking to appoint an experienced Pastoral Leader at Harris Academy Peckham. 

About Us

As part of Harris Federation, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education in London. With regular progression opportunities and outstanding CPD for support staff, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether at Harris Academy Peckham, in one of our other 50 academies, or in our central team. Our aim is to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.

Main Areas of Responsibility

  • To support the consistent implementation of the Academy Behaviour for Learning policy
  • To be responsible for the calm and purposeful entrance and exit of students into/out of the Academy, this to include organising line-ups where appropriate.
  • To work with the other pastoral leader as a team to ensure students are monitored and supervised before school, during break and throughout lunch;
  • To be responsible for calm and purposeful movement around the academy between lessons.
  • Managing detention organisation as necessary
  • To act as the liaison between the Academy and the local community (including the Police) for any aspect of behaviour issues arising during the Academy day eg, truancy sweeps, liaising with local shopkeepers.
  • Overseeing the entrance of students into the breakfast club in line with the agreed system;
  • Ensuring that students enter the building in full Academy uniform and if not, following the agreed procedures;
  • Ensuring that faculty points are awarded as appropriate;
  • Ensuring that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet Academy standards particularly outside lessons;
  • To design and deliver, in consultation with the Academy Leadership Group, a variety of agreed enrichment and sporting activities making maximum use of the Academy facilities.
  • To follow through any issues to do with behaviour as required by the Academy Leadership Group, for example, taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues.
  • To mentor students on PSPs, supporting successful achievement of targets and contributing to meetings/ reports in relation to student progress on PSP. This may include supporting in lessons as appropriate.
  • To prepare student’s files for governor’s disciplinary panels or exclusion hearings.
  • To present reports of student’s progress to PSP review meetings.
  • To ensure that all issues that relate to student safety such as allegations of bullying are passed on to Academy colleagues, in a timely manner, for further investigation as required.
  • To liaise with the local community, including the Police, including dealing with incidents received by the Academy, such as student identification, investigating incidents outside the Academy, and ensuring that all statements/records are passed on to the relevant Academy staff 

See Job Description for further information 

Qualifications & Experience

  • GCSE Maths and English at grade C or above, or equivalent
  • A level qualifications, or equivalent
  • Knowledge of the Academy behaviour for learning policy
  • Knowledge of the range of barriers to learning that students face
  • Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
  • Basic knowledge of first aid; e.g. emergency first aid course
  • 3 years’ experience of working in an inner city school or educational establishment in a pastoral capacity
  • Experience of dealing successfully with a range of behaviour issues
  • Experience of working with staff to ensure excellent behaviour for learning is maintained
  • Experience of working with families
  • Experience of supervising a group of students for detentions, referral and internal exclusion as appropriate
  • Experience of working with challenging students and finding ways in which we can meet their needs more successfully

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.

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About Harris Academy Peckham

Harris Academy Peckham is a place where all flourish, all feel valued and where achievement is the key to success. We are thoroughly proud of all our successes to date and look forward to further contributing to the Harris Federation’s excellent track record.

We combine the traditional values of discipline, respect and good manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. With these core values in place, we aim to send out into the world students that are happy and educated with the drive and ambition to be successful.

Our aim is to offer every student the opportunity to develop their potential to the maximum – in their learning, in preparation for the world of work and in their contribution to society.

We are very fortunate to have skilled and dedicated staff who want our students to enjoy their education. They are committed to helping every young person to reach their own personal goals. 

We give our students as many opportunities as possible. No matter what their ability, we want them to learn and experience as much as they can during their time at the Academy. We offer a full, broad and balanced curriculum, ensuring students of all academic abilities enjoy learning. Each student is given the individual care and attention they need to thrive and make maximum progress. 

Our two specialisms of Performing Arts and Business and Enterprise make the Academy an exciting and vibrant place. Students are given engaging opportunities to learn, participate in activities and experience the world of work within a friendly and safe environment. 

Everyone at the Academy is given the chance to find out what they are good at. We have a large and unusual range of out-of-school clubs and activities. Students can, for example, learn a language, play the drums or become a cheerleader. 


Working for Harris Federation

The Harris Federation is a not-for-profit charity. Led and run by teachers, we established our first school over 25 years ago.

There are now more than 40 happy and highly successful primary and secondary academies in our federation. All of these are in and around London. With each school that has joined us, the expectations we set ourselves have increased.

Every Harris academy so far inspected by Ofsted is rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, with three quarters of our inspected secondary academies judged ‘outstanding’. Our primary schools are newer, but almost half are ‘outstanding’, with the rest ‘good’.

To find out more about working for Harris Federation, please see our Careers Prospectus via the link below.

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