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Pastoral Assistant and Head of Year

Henley Bank High School, Gloucester, GL3 4QF

This job expired on 30 March 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time, Monday to Thursday 8.15am - 16.00pm and Friday 8.15am - 15.45pm with a 30 minute unpaid lunch break
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,183.00 - £27,711.00 FTE (£21,717.28 - £23,897.37 Actual salary)
• Pay scale: NJC Grade F, Scale Points 6-12
• Additional allowances:

  Allowance for Head of Year role (£5,647 FTE) actual salary £4,869.85 per annum paid in monthly instalments

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a Pastoral Assistant and Head of Year. This is an exciting opportunity to join GLT / Henley Bank High School and become an integral member of the Pastoral and Behaviour team.

At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues.

We are a successful secondary school based in Brockworth, extremely close to junction 11a of the M5. The school has consistently been achieving excellent academic results over the past few years with the GCSE results of 2023 being in the top 1% of results in the country, as well as the highest results for any non-selective school in Gloucestershire. We opened our Sixth Form in September 2024 and are really excited to see what the next stage in the school’s journey will be. A crucial element of the school’s vision is ensuing that we are preparing our young people for the world of tomorrow. This role plays an essential part in achieving this.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.

To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our job’s portal.

Job Description

To support the growth of our pastoral team we are excited to offer this role. Henley Bank High School is a school that is passionate about inclusion and supporting all our students. This role will support all students to ensure they can achieve the best chance of success.

Job Purpose

• To ensure minimal disruption to the learning of the class/groups by supporting with pastoral/behaviour management and assisting/providing removal and regulation time as needed
• Work alongside other members of Pastoral Support to ensure all students are able to learn in a disruptive free environment

Main responsibilities: (pastoral support)

• Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model
• To provide pastoral support to students
• Assist in developing individual behaviour/support plans
• Challenge and motivate students, promoting and reinforcing self-esteem
• Provide temporary 1:1 support for students experiencing emotional/behavioural crisis
• Support students who are not working effectively within usual classroom routines
• Support students to make appropriate choices about their learning, behaviour and attendance
• Promote the speedy/effective transfer of students across phases/integration of those who have been absent
• Support students’ access to learning using appropriate strategies and resources
• Monitor and evaluate students’ responses and progress against action plans
• Assist in the development and implementation of appropriate behaviour management strategies
• Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers
• Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals, in liaison with the teacher, to support achievement and progress of students
• Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others
• Be aware of and comply with school policies and procedures, including those regarding safeguarding and physical restraint
• Keep accurate and timely records as required by class teachers and the Inclusion Lead
• Complete break and lunchtime duties as required to support with positive behaviour
• Contribute to the overall ethos of the school
• Participate in training and other learning activities as required
• Support with running of Alternative Provision Centre (APC), social removal and detentions
• To provide and support with exam invigilating as and when required
• To undertake one cover lesson per day

Main responsibilities: (head of year)

• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students in all year groups using effective and safeguarding protocol as per school policy
• Overall pastoral responsibility for a full year group of students and have accountability for a year group of students across the curriculum
• To support and assume the responsibility for the welfare of students, follow up incidents, maintain detailed records and student files
• Hold meetings with parents/carers during or after the school day as requires, sometimes with other senior staff members
• Arrange sanctions where appropriate
• Attend Pastoral Team Meetings
• Attend weekly meetings with the Attendance Officer to maintain minimum year group attendance of 97%
• Collaborative support for high standards of behaviour across individual and all year groups including support in the APC
• Assist with admissions by deciding on the tutor group for new students and ensuring that new students are allocated a ‘buddy’ to assist with their settling in period
• Manage any minor tutor group changes throughout the academic year and ensure that there is an induction programme in place for students entering the year group ‘midterm’
• Maintain a zero-tolerance approach to the effective management of bullying. All cases to be treated with the upmost importance and extensive record kept up to date
• Respond to parental enquiries by telephone, letter or email as appropriate within 24 hours
• Responsible for the year groups during break and lunchtime alongside staff on the rota
• Quality assures the effective delivery of year group specific tutor activity/provision/intervention (Period 6/TTRP) intervening with students as and when required reporting to SLT
• Monitor and evaluate the standards of achievement and progress of the year group by using student data and information – identification of students below, on and above target and liaison with relevant Heads of Department to facilitate improvement where required reporting to SLT
• Organise and lead progress meetings with relevant staff members (exams officers, HoDs and SLT) after internal exams and monitor agreed actions identified within progress meetings
• Promote a sense of belonging within your year group
• Monitor the rewards system across the year group including rewards assemblies and events
• Plan and organise the distribution of certificates of achievement to students following internal exams and progress meetings
• To keep accurate records of all communication with parents (Bromcom/My Concern), all sanctions issued and any other pertinent pastoral information relating to students within the year group in student files
• Manage readmission meetings effectively, consistently and timely in line with the behaviour policy
• Organise and lead year group assemblies
• Organise and lead year group parent’s evenings actively securing attendance
• Support any whole year school trips/activities

You will need:

• Hold at least 5 GCSE’s or equivalent, which must include at least a Grade C/4 in Maths and English
• NVQ 2 and/or equivalent qualification in relevant area
• Evidence of personal commitment to CPD
• Proven successful experience working with or caring for children in any setting
• Basic understanding of child development and learning.
• The ability to work constructively as part of a team, follow line management structures and understand classroom roles and your own position within those responsibilities.
• The ability to take the initiative to support students presenting with a range of SEND
• The ability to work in a flexible way and think ‘outside the box’ in order to co-produce learning plans that support a young person’s resilience
• To show commitment to the SEND team to ensure that it continues to develop strength and expertise across the broad areas of SEND
• To be able to form empathetic relationships with young people and be able to communicate their needs effectively to other professionals
• Commitment to high standards and expectations

What the school offers its staff

What’s in it for you:

• Professional development and career progression
• Generous pension scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym Discounts
• Free eye tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Green car scheme
• Access to Blue Light Card Scheme
• Access to Teacher Art Pass Scheme (teachers only)
• Being part of a great team and expanding organisation

Commitment to safeguarding

Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Candidate Information Pack Pastoral Assistant and Head of Year - 17.3.25.pdf - 621 KB (opens in new tab)

GLT Recruitment Brochure - Why you should work for GLT.pdf - 4.31 MB (opens in new tab)

About Henley Bank High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 825 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Henley Bank High School website
• Email address: jhowells@henleybankhighschool.co.uk
• Phone number: 01452 863372
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/henley-bank-high-school

Henley Bank High School is a 11 – 16 mixed comprehensive secondary school and is situated in Brockworth, Gloucester. We currently have 750 students on roll, with staff providing teaching, pastoral care and other support across the school. We had our first Ofsted inspection in June 2022 and were extremely proud of the outcome which was good in all categories. We are also extremely proud of the results our Year 11 students have achieved and the dedication that they and our staff have put in to achieve this is outstanding.

At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues. We build character implicitly, through our world class curriculum, teaching and learning in the classroom and explicitly through our Legacy Programme and Pastoral Systems. We aim to guide our students in becoming well rounded citizens of the future who can lead with honesty, integrity and resilience. The importance we place on this has been recognised through the school being awarded the Character Kitemark accreditation. Our Legacy programme and values of Ambition, Creativity, Confidence, Determination and Respect are the foundations of our Character Education programme.

All students have an entitlement to a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum. We believe that all students with additional needs should be taught wherever possible, with their peers in mainstream classes by subject specialists who use a range of teaching methods and strategies to develop students' knowledge, skills and understanding. Henley Bank High School was the winner of the NASEN Award for Secondary Provision which demonstrates the value that we place on our support provided within the classroom across all subjects within the school.

As a school, we really celebrate being a team and a ‘family’. This is crucial to us to ensure collaboration and support as well as ensuring that staff, students, parents/carers and the wider community feel invested in improving the school and the chances of success for our students. A huge amount of work has gone into developing this school over the last few years and we are so excited to welcome new members of staff to help continue this development, as well as bring their own ideas and enthusiasm.

We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.

Arranging a visit to Henley Bank High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jhowells@henleybankhighschool.co.uk.

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