Pastoral and Alternative Provision Lead

Harlington School, Hayes, UB3 1PB

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  28 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: Starting Scale 18 – 23 (Dependent Upon Skills & Experience)
• Additional allowances:

  Starting Scale 18 – 23 (Dependent Upon Skills & Experience)

Pastoral and Alternative Provision Lead job summary

The Pastoral and Alternative Provision Lead will provide operational pastoral leadership across Key Stage 3, with specific responsibility for attendance, safeguarding, behaviour, alternative provision, pastoral interventions, reintegration and the effective use of CPOMS and internal tracking systems.

The postholder will act as a pastoral leader for attendance, safeguarding and behaviour, ensuring that concerns are identified early, followed up consistently and escalated appropriately. The role will also include Designated Safeguarding Lead responsibility for Key Stage 3, subject to appropriate training and in line with the school safeguarding procedures.

The postholder will line manage identified Pastoral Support Leaders and ensure that day-to-day pastoral, behaviour, attendance and safeguarding-related work is completed consistently, professionally and in line with school expectations.

The role will support students whose behaviour, attendance, engagement, safeguarding context or wider pastoral needs present barriers to success. The postholder will work closely with Progress Leaders, the Senior Pastoral Lead, DSLs, SEND colleagues, attendance staff, parents and external providers to ensure that students receive timely, structured and purposeful support.

This is an operational role with leadership responsibilities of team members. Progress Leaders remain responsible for the strategic leadership of year groups, including attendance, progress, standards and culture. The Pastoral and Alternative Provision Lead will ensure that pastoral operations, safeguarding follow-up, attendance actions, interventions and alternative provision processes are well coordinated, monitored and evaluated.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Harlington School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All job offers are provisional until such time as the school has undertaken appropriate safeguarding checks and is satisfied that successful candidates are suitable to work with children and young people.

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.

About Harlington School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1368 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Harlington School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harlington-school

Harlington School: A caring, forward thinking professional learning community, that develops exceptional educators and kind hearted, hard-working and well-rounded young people, all with a passion for enquiry and scholarship.

Harlington School’s ambition is to offer its students the best possible educational opportunities. We are a mixed, non-selective school for students between 11 and 19 years old. We expect our students to leave Harlington School with the confidence and qualifications to enable them to move onto university or a career of their choice.

To do this we:
• Have high expectations of commitment to learning from students, staff and parents.
• Have high expectations of conduct.
• Provide a safe, caring environment where respect and for others are taught and valued.
• Provide high quality teaching.
• Provide a curriculum that meets the needs of all students, whatever their ability.
• Provide a range of extra-curricular activities.
• Provide regular, careful review and assessment of every student’s progress and needs and tailored support for each child.
• Involve parents in every aspect of their child’s education and emotional well-being whilst at school.

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