Pastoral Leader

Oasis Academy Don Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S9 3TY

20 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 May 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: MPS/UPS

Pastoral Leader job summary

Pastoral Manager

Oasis Academy Don Valley is a coeducational Academy in Sheffield, which admits students between the ages of 4 to 16 years, where we celebrate diversity and relentlessly focus on the attainment of all of our children. We thrive in an environment full of different thinkers and burgeoning potential. A multi-cultural hub of learning with fantastic facilities and a newly formed team of professional educators and support staff that have the best interests and safety of our young charges firmly at the centre of everything we do.

Oasis Academies exist to provide a rich and balanced educational environment which caters for the whole person - academically, vocationally, socially, morally, spiritually, physically, emotionally and environmentally. Our task is to serve our students, as well as to provide a learning hub for the entire community. In this way we will raise aspirations, unlock potential and work to achieve excellence through encouraging a ‘can do’ culture which nurtures confident and competent people. We recognise that providing teaching and learning for all is not always easy and as an academy we deal with any challenging situations as a collaborative team that supports and helps out as needed. It’s what makes us strong and confident about our future and that of our young people.

What’s in it for you?

If you really are the sort of person who is motivated to want to make a genuine positive impact to young lives and has ambition to develop your expertise further – we can help you get there.

At Oasis we offer exceptional personal development opportunities both within our Don Valley Academy school and beyond across. We invest in our people to ensure they are properly trained and informed in their area of expertise and have every opportunity to progress further – even up to Regional Director and beyond.

There is no barrier and no blocker to progression if you seek it.

The Don Valley team is ambitious, enthused and determined to deliver the very best education for our young people and being part of a motivated and inspired team makes for great results and brings personal reward and satisfaction.

The role and requirements:

Diversity of background and situation inevitably brings a diversity of attitude to, and engagement with, teaching and learning. This can result in behavioural and/or attendance challenges which need addressing so we can ensure every student can access great quality education and progress to fulfil their ambition.

The role of Pastoral Manager is to ensure all students in one year are ready to learn and are well supported through effective management of behaviours, attendance ad safeguarding.

There is a full job description attached, but as well as an educational attainment of Maths and English GCSE or equivalent and a level 3 NQF qualification we are interested in evidence of other experience and personal attributes, including:

You will experienced at de-escalation techniques and are keen to continue with your personal development.

You will provide strategies and behaviour interventions to ensure best outcomes for learners in a Year.

You are able to set clear expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge students and are experienced at promoting good progress and outcomes.

You are a firm, unambiguous communicator able to keep calm and maintain control under potentially challenging circumstances.

Organised and adaptable you will be a natural collaborator and possess good literacy and numeracy skills.

Demonstrate emotional resilience in working with varying behaviours and attitudes to use of authority and maintaining discipline.

If this sounds like you and you can’t wait to change lives – we would love to hear from you. We encourage school visits so you can see and experience life at Don Valley – please get in contact with us.

All applications will be run through a AI programme to check for authenticity. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if needed.

Safeguarding Statement:

Oasis Academy Don Valley is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Oasis Academy Don Valley

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 16
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1129 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oasis-academy-don-valley

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