Pastoral Leader (Attendance)

Lift Maltings, Witham, Essex, CM8 1EP

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  20 November 2026 at 1:30pm

• Date listed

  6 November 2026

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: £23727.19 - £24893.47 per annum

Pastoral Leader (Attendance) job summary

We're looking for a pastoral leader to join our school and help every student feel supported, safe and ready to thrive. This is a chance to make a real difference to young people's lives - removing barriers to attendance, building trusted relationships with families, and creating a culture where every child feels they belong.

In this role, you'll work closely with students, staff, families and external agencies to promote positive attendance, support wellbeing, and help shape the caring, ambitious ethos we want for our school community.

Key responsibilities

You will:

• provide pastoral support to students, including those in at-risk groups, and act as a key contact when needed;
• work alongside the attendance officer to create and review attendance plans, follow up absences, and guide interventions that help improve punctuality and attendance;
• meet with families and external agencies to understand and address barriers to attendance, and support reintegration after any suspension;
• manage school attendance systems accurately, ensuring registers are completed on time and coding is clear and correct;
• collaborate with the safeguarding team, SENDCo and mental health lead to identify vulnerable students and coordinate support; and
• represent the school at inter-agency meetings and keep senior leaders informed of outcomes and actions.

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone who:

• holds GCSE maths and English (grade 4 or equivalent);
• brings experience of motivating young people and promoting high expectations;
• can use data thoughtfully to spot patterns, track progress and guide decisions;
• has strong interpersonal skills and can build relationships with students, families, staff and external agencies;
• stays calm under pressure, thinks creatively, and uses their own initiative within agreed ways of working; and
• shows patience, empathy and a non-judgemental approach, with a genuine passion for supporting every young person to succeed.

Experience in an educational setting, knowledge of attendance legislation, and familiarity with Google Workspace would all be valuable. Could you be the person who helps our students feel valued, supported and ready to learn every day?

About our school

Lift Maltings is an 11-16 school based in Witham, Essex. Situated between the cities of Chelmsford and Colchester, the school has 900 students on roll and benefits from a modern, purpose-built site opened in 2011. With excellent transport links to London, our staff and students can take full advantage of the wealth of opportunities the capital provides. Free car parking facilities are available on site.

Visits to the school are warmly encouraged. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Luke Harper, School Operations Manager.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

How we support you

We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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 Lift Maltings

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 787 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Maltings website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/maltings-academy

Lift Maltings is a mixed secondary school in Witham, Essex and is part of Lift Schools, a national network of schools created to provide thousands of students with the best possible education.

Our core purpose is to provide our students with a well rounded learning experience that is of the highest standard so that they can stand shoulder to shoulder with others confidently.

It is our aim to instil the ambition in our students that they need to achieve that their aspirations and goals, and for those aspirations to not be limited by any preconceptions they or other may have of them. Our students should leave us at Lift Maltings feeling empowered to do absolutely anything they have their mind set on be that academically or personally.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

Our mission:

We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.

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