Pastoral Leader
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 8am
Date listed
3 July 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
- £27,569.00 - £29,393.00 Annually (FTE) AS 11-15 FTE £27,569-£29,393 actual pro rata £23,924-£25,507
Pastoral Leader job summary
Pastoral Leader
We are looking to recruit an outstanding and committed professional to join our highly effective Pastoral team. We want someone with very high expectations who loves working with young people and is ambitious to see them achieve. You will want to be a part of a team that believes young people deserve the very best quality of education.
You will be a resilient team player with a can-do attitude, will be flexible, organised and able to use your own initiative and problem-solve.
The pastoral leadership team is friendly and cohesive and works with teachers and other support staff, ‘going the extra mile’ to ensure that we provide the very best for our pupils and families. It is important to us that you buy-in to and share the ethos and vision of the school.
Key Duties
To deputise as necessary for the relevant Senior Leader/Key Stage Lead/Head of Year
To have shared responsibility for the operation of the Pastoral Support Offices and pastoral intervention packages
To work alongside the relevant Key Stage Lead and deputise where necessary with regards to monitoring pupil academic achievement and enabling positive pupil outcomes
To be the lead professional for pupils who are members of vulnerable groups (with Education Health Care Plans, low attendance, looked after children etc.)
To work closely with the Key Stage Lead with regards to any pupil matters and deputise for them in all matters concerning the relevant Key Stage
To be an initial point of contact in the day-to-day running of pastoral support, acting as a triage to deal with concerns raised or to identify the colleague who can best deal with this and support the actions of that colleague
To be the point of contact for families and external agencies for a significant group of pupils
To lead on uniform, attendance, punctuality, behaviour and safeguarding issues for a significant group of pupils
To assist the Key Stage Lead in the further development of the pastoral support system
Job specifics
Start date 1st September 2025
Salary AS 11-15 FTE £27,569-£29,393 actual pro rata £23,924-£25,507
Job role Permanent, Full time, Term Time +5 INSET days, 39 wks per yr, 37 hrs per wk,
Mon-Thu 8:15am-4:15pm & Fri 3:45pm
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 517 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Houstone School website
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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