Pastoral Assistant

Westfield School, Sheffield, S20 1HQ

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  6 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 December 2025

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: £26,403.00 - £28,598.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 4 SCP 7 to 12 (Actual salary for 37 hours/39 weeks - £22,709 to £24,597) (Actual salary for 14.5 hours/39 weeks - £8,900 - £9,640

Pastoral Assistant job summary

We are looking to appoint 2 x full time and 1 x part time pastoral assistants. (The part time role will be working Thursday and Friday).

These roles will support pastoral and inclusion work within school. It is predominantly a student facing role working with colleagues to support our students to succeed and achieve. The roles will assist in implementing the behaviour management systems in school, including being ‘on call’ and collecting students from classrooms. It will also include contributing to the smooth running of our internal behaviour intervention room, including supporting and intervening with students. Staff will also be assigned to a year group to promote positive working relationships between school and home.

Adopting a confident and compassionate approach, you will provide students with information, advice and support to enable them to make positive decisions in relation to their attitude to learning, progression, behaviour, punctuality attendance.

The successful candidate will need excellent communication skills and experience of working with students aged 11-16 years.

The successful candidate will also need to establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a positive role model and setting high expectations, as well as working closely with teaching staff and pastoral teams.

If you want to work in an inspiring, fully inclusive environment with students who want to succeed and alongside friendly, supportive staff, then we want to hear from you! You will join a passionate and dedicated team, a school with strong leadership, and a Trust who is committed to providing professional development and opportunities for all colleagues.

This role requires candidates to have GCSE English at Grade 4 or above (or equivalent). The successful candidate will be expected to provide evidence of their GCSE certificate.

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

At Chorus Trust we are committed to the Safeguarding of all our pupils, please visit our website to access our Safeguarding & Child Protection policy https://www.chorustrust.org/policies

The Trust will also conduct an online search of the successful candidate in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education advice.

The successful candidate will be required to complete a Disclosure & Barring check in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and the Police Act Regulations.

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 Westfield School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1327 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Westfield School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/westfield-school-sheffield

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