Pastoral Leader
Madeley High School, Crewe, Cheshire, CW3 9JJ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
14 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours a week, term time only plus 5 inset days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual Salary: £25,358 – SCP20 £28,463
Pay scale
- G7 SCP 24 – 28, £29,093 - £32,655 FTE
What skills and experience we're looking for
Madeley School has an excellent reputation locally and is oversubscribed year on year. The school currently has record breaking Progress 8 and Attainment results and our OFSTED report in December 2019 praised pupils’ exceptional attitudes to learning in a school where they achieve strong outcomes.
We are looking for a talented Pastoral Leader to help foster a caring and supportive learning environment for the young people at Madeley School. You will be responsible for a specific year group (average size is 160 students) as well as whole school pastoral support.
The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and problem-solving skills. Your experience of pastoral care will place our learners’ welfare at the heart of the school. You will support children in the successful learning and participation in educational activities to help them overcome barriers that are preventing them from achieving their full potential. You will secure their physical and emotional well-being whilst encouraging their independence and raising their self-esteem and in doing so reflect the core values of Madeley School.
This role is designed to appeal to those with ambition, who want to work in a school where things get done and where we are surrounded by can-do staff, fabulous children and extremely supportive families. This post is ideal for someone who enjoys being a prominent figure in children’s lives and has endless patience even when children are not their best self. We seek someone who is both realistic and ambitious for the children of our school.
We are proud of our long history serving the local community and relish the challenge of preparing our students for their futures as leaders in the 21st. century. As a relatively small secondary school, we are uniquely placed to care for each child as an individual. We take pride in providing a friendly, nurturing and welcoming environment for learning for all students, regardless of background or prior achievement and where our students are given the skills, experiences and qualifications necessary for them to take charge of their own destinies.
We strive to keep our core values at the heart of all we do on our collective mission of inspiring excellence
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on workingfull time, all year- Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holidayrising to 39 daysafter 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help yougrow, contributeandflourishin your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
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.
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About Madeley High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 731 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Madeley High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
Madeley School has an excellent reputation locally and is oversubscribed. Our OFSTED report in December 2019 praised pupils’ exceptional attitudes to learning in a school where they achieve strong outcomes.
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