Enhanced Pastoral Support Manager
Ryedale School, York, North Yorkshire, YO62 7SL8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
1 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,339.00 - £29,850.00 Annually (Actual) Salary based on Grade H, Scale Point 18 - 23 £31,536 - £34,433 FTE
Enhanced Pastoral Support Manager job summary
Job Details
Hours of Work: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Only (39 Weeks Per Year)
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: Deputy Headteacher
Travel Required: No
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
About the Role
We are seeking a dedicated and highly organised Enhanced Pastoral Support Manager to join our committed Pastoral Team. This is a key role within the school, supporting some of our most vulnerable students to overcome barriers to learning and fully engage with school life.
You will work closely with Assistant Headteachers (Behaviour and Inclusion), the safeguarding team, and external agencies to ensure each student receives the right level of support. The role requires a proactive, resilient individual who can build positive relationships, uphold high expectations, and make a meaningful difference to students’ wellbeing and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a caseload of students identified as vulnerable and requiring enhanced pastoral support
- Oversee provision for these students, ensuring they access lessons successfully with appropriate adjustments
- Liaise with a range of external agencies to deliver coordinated, multi-layered support where needed
- Contribute to Inclusion Team meetings, ensuring all stakeholders understand student support plans
- Act as a first point of contact for students requiring advice, guidance or referral
- Support Assistant Headteachers with investigations, meetings and student interventions
- Coordinate and monitor alternative provision packages for vulnerable students
- Support students accessing education in additional spaces or due to long-term illness
What We’re Looking For
- A strong commitment to supporting vulnerable young people and removing barriers to learning
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust with students, families and colleagues
- Resilience, adaptability, and the ability to remain calm in challenging situations
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail in record-keeping
- A team player who can also work independently and take initiative
- A commitment to high expectations, inclusion and equality
About the Trust
Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.
At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.
Our Trust is committed to promoting:
Health, happiness and wellbeing
A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
High standards and expectations
Integrity, kindness and good manners
Respect for individuality and difference
Collaborative working to secure excellence
To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.
Why work for us?
We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.
We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.
In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.
Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.
Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.
Regardless of role, we seek staff who:
Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
Are committed to our Trust values.
Show initiative and are responsive to change.
Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
Are team players.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Interviews will take place the week commencing 06 July 2026
The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Ryedale Learning Trust is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment and therefore we apply safer recruitment screening to candidates prior to appointment.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Ryedale School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 704 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ryedale School website
Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Type: Mainstream School,
Phase: Secondary,
Funding status: State - Academy
Gender: Mixed
Age range: 11 - 16 years
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