Pastoral Leader

Wild Bank Community School, Stalybridge, Cheshire, SK15 2PG

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  16 July 2025

• Closing date

  24 July 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  17 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,437-£23,286

Pastoral Leader job summary

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Pastoral Lead at Wild Bank Community School, Demesne Drive, Stalybridge, SK15 2PG.

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

Wild Bank is a one form entry school with 31 staff and 146 pupils aged between 3 and 11. Wild Bank’s school motto is ‘Working together we can achieve our best’.

Details about the role:

To start 1st September 2025

Pastoral Lead full-time Salary £30,060-£32,654

The role is permanent, part-time 30 hours per week, Term Time Only

With an actual salary - £21,437-£23,286 (Grade F Point 17-22).

The hours are:

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 3:30pm (with 1 hour lunch)

We are a small one-form entry school with delightful children and dedicated and friendly staff. The pastoral lead role is one which involves being the attendance lead, deputy safeguarding lead and will have close liaison with parents, children, outside agencies and other members of school staff. We require a person who is an excellent communicator, and is able to ensure the enhancement of the wellbeing and emotional health of our children and families. Experience in this area of work is desirable.

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

• Applications close at 12am on Thursday 24th July 2025 although the Trust reserve  the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process.

• Interview date is to be confirmed

• Visits to the school are encouraged and warmly welcomed.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.

All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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.

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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.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Wild Bank Community School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 183 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wild-bank-community-school

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