Pastoral Support Officer

Full time - 37 hours per week

40 weeks per year (Term time plus 1 week)

We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools and one primary school with over 750 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley, West Midlands.

We are looking for a full-time Pastoral Support Officer to support students with personal, social, developmental and behavioural problems to help the identify and realise their full potential both inside and outside school.

Main Duties

 ·       Supporting the Head of Year and senior leadership team

·       Support, in liaison with SENCo, Senior Staff and Tutors, students with personal, social, developmental and behaviour problems.

·       Develop and maintain positive relationships with students needing support.

·       Attend appropriate meetings to discuss options for levels of Pastoral support with Parents, and Senior Staff

·       Mentor students on a 1-1 basis.

·       Support break and lunch time duties.

·       Support and develop the Refocus Centre.

·       Liaise with external agencies regarding student transfers.

·       Liaise with parents and external agencies to arrange meetings.

·       Communicate effectively with parents and staff

·       Attend relevant meetings as required.

·       Undertake training related to the post for performance development.

·       Collation of behaviour reports, strategies and plans.

·       Create, maintain and update confidential staff files.

·       Responsible for the management of significant information management systems.

·       Responsible and accountable for producing appropriate data for analysis.

·       Produce statistical information

·       Help fill in for other members of the pastoral team in their absence.

·       Liaise with the pastoral team.

·       Report, log and action any safeguarding concerns via the DSL and reporting systems.

QUALS/EXPERIENCE

 NVQ 3/Higher Level Teaching Assistant or other appropriate equivalent qualification or experience.

Excellent numeracy, literacy and oral skills.

A minimum 2 years’ experience working with children of secondary age.

A knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of legislation.

Please contact Miss R Hatton for further details or an informal discussion:- rhatton@ellowes.dudley.sch.uk. 

Closing date: - Friday 7th October, 5pm. 

Interviews: - TBC

 We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, as a part of our recruitment process we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image or other content that could cause reputational damage to the trust and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover anything during our searches this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during interview.

 We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2022 – KCSIE 2022

This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.

Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance/dbs-filtering-guide

 As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.