Pastoral Manager
Ibstock School, Ibstock, Leicestershire, LE67 6NE8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 8, Pay Point 15 - 18
What skills and experience we're looking for
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- 5 GCSEs (A-C) including mathematics and English
- Two years’ experience of working in an education setting or health and social care
- Experience of working effectively with young people
- Experience of working effectively with parents / carers
Desirable
- IT qualification e.g. ECDL / RSA / CLAIT
- Experience of working collaboratively with other agencies
- Experience of working with young people with complex emotional and behavioural needs
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Good standard of literacy and numeracy
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Excellent knowledge of safeguarding and child protection procedures
- Good knowledge of effective ways of managing student behaviour and attendance, and highly effective at behaviour management.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to work effectively with young people with challenging behaviour.
- Able to devise and monitor effective programmes for behaviour modification / intervention.
- High level skills in counselling and mentoring.
- Able to work well with groups of young people.
- Highly effective team member.
- Able to anticipate and defuse conflict.
- Excellent ICT skills and ability to interpret data.
- Ability to produce clear reports and keep concise accurate records.
- Good organisational skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the impact of special educational needs on behaviour
- Knowledge of Arbor database
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential
- An enthusiasm for working with young people
- Flexible with a ‘can-do’ approach
- Integrity, empathy and patience
- Able to manage sensitive and confidential situations
- Able to work under sustained pressure while remaining cheerful and resilient
- Able to react appropriately to problems and unexpected situations, making rapid decisions and taking the initiative
- Able to operate effectively as a member of a team with minimum supervision
- Self-motivated
- Loyal and dependable
What the school offers its staff
Essential
- An enthusiasm for working with young people
- Flexible with a ‘can-do’ approach
- Integrity, empathy and patience
- Able to manage sensitive and confidential situations
- Able to work under sustained pressure while remaining cheerful and resilient
- Able to react appropriately to problems and unexpected situations, making rapid decisions and taking the initiative
- Able to operate effectively as a member of a team with minimum supervision
- Self-motivated
- Loyal and dependable
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ibstock School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 808 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ibstock School website
- Email address
- jobs@ibstockschool.co.uk
Ibstock Community College has 570 students on roll and is at the heart of the local community, serving families in Ibstock and the surrounding villages of North-West Leicestershire. We are at an exciting stage in our development with plans to expand from a Key Stage 3 (11-14) school to welcoming students from 11-16 from autumn 2022. We also anticipate exciting future developments and opportunities when we join LiFE Multi Academy Trust later this academic year.
As students, staff, parents and governors we share the following values and beliefs:-
Resilience
Equity
Success
Pride
Encouragement
Curriculum
Trust.
We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for all posts.
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