Pastoral Faculty Coordinator
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Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
13 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Actual salary £26,052.92-£27,591.52 (38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,987-£32,817
Pay scale
- Grade 4 (Inner London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an outstanding individual to join Harris Academy Morden as a Pastoral Faculty Coordinator.
You will support staff and students promoting a safe environment with excellent levels of behaviour so everyone is entitled to learn, overcoming barriers to learning working with colleagues in the academy and using a wide range of techniques.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- Qualifications to A level or equivalent
- Basic knowledge of SEND and learning barriers
- Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
- Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace
- Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students
- Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels
- Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload
Please download the Job Pack for a full person specification.
What the school offers its staff
At Harris Academy Morden we pride ourselves on the inclusive approach and caring environment we have developed.Ofsted 2018 ‘A very strong sense of community is evident throughout the school'.
Staff well-being is at the heart of our academy. We have a sensible marking policy, organised marking sessions to give staff time to mark and a two week October half term holiday.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includesour Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS,a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more aboutour benefitson our website.
Further details about the role
The main areas of responsibility will be:
- Supporting the consistent implementation of the academy behaviour policy
- The calm and purposeful movement around the academy between lessons
- Following through any issues to do with behaviour as required
- Mentoring students on PSPs
- Operating within the Duty Principal on call rota
- Managing students who are showing socially unacceptable or challenging behaviour
- Maintaining standards of behaviour for all faculties and command a presence through corridor patrols and lesson drop-ins
- Monitoring and reporting on attendance, punctuality and behaviour statistics
- Meeting weekly with the Attendance Officer to ensure targets are met
- Following up on any truancy and attendance concerns
- Supporting academy colleagues to run the truancy bus
- Reporting attendance and punctuality concerns at Faculty Meetings
- Supporting tutors to improve standards of attendance/punctuality
- Meeting with Parents/Carers of students that are failing to meet Academy expectations
- Coordinating the timely completion of accurate and consistent tutor reports
- Meeting with Assistant Principal responsible for SEND to identify early students potentially requiring support of EHCP
- Ensuring issues that relate to student safety are investigated and passed on to academy colleagues in a timely manner
- Assisting in monitoring the academic, social and emotional wellbeing of students
- Liaising with Parents/Carers and outside agencies and attending meetings
- Promoting positive values, attitudes and good student behaviour
- Establishing productive working relationships with students
- Maintaining daily contact with assigned students
- Working in partnership with colleagues to deliver effective interventions and support for students
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the Job Pack.
Qualifications & Experience
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- Qualifications to A level or equivalent
- Basic knowledge of SEND and learning barriers
- Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
- Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace
- Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students
- Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels
- Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload
Please download the Job Pack for a full person specification.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Harris Academy Morden
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 860 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Morden website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrismorden.org.uk
- Phone number
- 020 8687 1157
Harris Academy Morden have a very hard working team of teachers and support staff; they provide a caring and welcoming atmosphere for our students. We are traditional in our approach to discipline and uniform, yet forward thinking and at the cutting edge of curriculum development. The Academy's GCSE results in 2017 place us in the top 1% of schools nationally with a Progress 8 score of +1.01.
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