Pastoral Support Officer and DDSL

We are looking to recruit a full time Pastoral Support Officer and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to join our Pastoral team at this popular comprehensive school, with over 1200 students on roll, including around 200 in the Sixth Form. It has enjoyed consistent academic success and was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in 2019.

The main purpose of the job is to work with staff and parents / carers to provide high quality targeted intervention and support for students in order to ensure that students are safe, meet school expectations and make good progress at school.

Specific duties would include:

·        To establish constructive working relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs;

·        To provide 1:1 support and group support to identified students and maintain records of these interventions;

·        To act as the key worker in school for identified students, which will involve liaising with other professionals, liaison with parents / carers and setting up / attending relevant meetings;

·        To support the successful re-integration of students after suspension in collaboration with the Assistant Headteacher (Pastoral);

·        Support the effective implementation of the school’s Behaviour policy by promoting good student behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy, manage rewards and sanctions and encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour;

·        To establish constructive relationships with parents/carers;

·        To liaise with other key staff such as the SENDCo, MAGT Coordinator, EAL Coordinator, Attendance Officer and Head of House to ensure that identified students are receiving appropriate support;

·        To liaise with relevant Heads of Year, Assistant Heads of Year and tutors to ensure that pastoral support for identified pupils is supported by the wider pastoral team;

·        To liaise with other members of pastoral team in engaging hard to reach parents –including home visits with AO, Student and Family Support Officer, etc where appropriate;

·        To liaise with professionals from other agencies, such as CAMHS, Children’s Social Care etc to ensure effective multi-agency working to support students and families;

·        To work flexible hours to meet the needs of parents and students;

·        To maintain clear and detailed records, in line with school systems and procedures;

·        To undertake appropriate professional training and development;

·        To contribute to relevant in-school staff training;

·        To oversee the input of rewards system in school, acting as point of contact for students, staff and parents;

·        Support the induction of in year admission students;

·        To help run whole school detentions;

·         To be one of the school’s Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL), assisting the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in all matters of safeguarding and child protection across the school.  This will involve taking part in strategy discussions and inter-agency meetings, and contributing to the assessment of children. It will also include participating in ongoing training to ensure that you continue to meet the requirements of this role.