Pastoral Assistant

Lime Academy Watergall, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 8NX

16 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  26 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  7 November 2025

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: £28,598.00 - £30,518.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Points 12-16 (£28598 - £30518 FTE), 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year

Pastoral Assistant job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 9 schools over 11 locations across Luton, Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:

- Learners are safe and enjoy learning

- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

- Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure. The Trust has also added an additional week's closure making the school holidays 14 weeks per academic year.

Overview of role

This is a rewarding role that provides vital support to both teaching staff and pupils, helping to enhance the overall learning and pastoral experience in our nurturing school. You will play a key part in helping pupils to be ready to learn, supporting their social and emotional needs alongside their communication skills, developing their resilience, and promoting out core values.

We are looking for an individual who:

- has a proactive approach to behaviour management and pupil engagement

- can build effective relationships in potentially challenging environments

- has previous teaching support experience ideally within SEN experience

- will be an effective model for pupil behaviour

- is resilient yet caring by nature

- has an understanding of safeguarding procedures and pupil safety

- will be able to work independently and follow establish procedures

- is competent with administrative duties

At our school, you'll be part of a supportive and dedicated team that values collaboration and professional growth. We offer ongoing training and development opportunities, a positive working environment, and the chance to make a real difference in the lives of our pupils. If you are passionate about helping learners thrive and want to contribute to a school that truly puts learners first, we would love to hear from you.

The job description for the role is attached; please see this for a full person specification before applying.

This is a fixed term contract until 17/07/2026, with the possibility of an extension.

Please see the Trust Benefits brochure attached to this advert on how we support and value employees who work for Lime Trust.

Please contact the school office via email at office.watergall@limetrust.org or 01733 264238 to discuss the role further. Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 Lime Academy Watergall

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 316 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lime Academy Watergall website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lime-academy-watergall

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