Pastoral Manager
Atherton High School, Atherton, Greater Manchester, M46 0AY3 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
20 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 June 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
- 24598 - 28024
Pastoral Manager job summary
The Job:
Atherton High School seek to appoint a Pastoral Manager from September 2025. The role is term time plus one week (40 weeks) and full time. The actual salary for this position is £24,598 to £28,024 per annum.
What does this job do?
- To support a team of form tutors, focusing on high standards and expectations of social and personal development of students.
- To provide supervision, guidance and personal development opportunities for the students in your year group.
- To implement specific targeted programmes of pastoral and behaviour support to the students in your year group
What are the job requirements?
The role of the Pastoral Manager encompasses but exceeds the specific tasks assigned in this Job Description. The following are the expectations of all pastoral leaders at Atherton High School.
- Supporting, articulating and promoting the school values of respect, responsibility and ambition
- Actively supporting and promoting the decisions made by the Senior Leadership Team
- Actively supporting all aspects of the school’s life e.g. assemblies, celebrations, whole-school events
- Being highly visible and high profile throughout the school
- Leading in ensuring impeccable pupil behaviour
- Challenging poor conduct and underperformance with pupils
- Being an effective communicator, both verbally and written
About Atherton High School:
‘Our curriculum ambition at Atherton High School is to make learning irresistible for all'. We have designed a challenging and ambitious curriculum to provide the best learning opportunities for all our students to aspire and achieve.
Our core values that drive our curriculum are:
- Aspiration for all to improve life chances for every student.
- Excellence in learning through an ambitious, knowledge and vocabulary-rich curriculum for all.
- Character and personal development to equip all of our students to succeed in life.
At Atherton High School what is taught is coherently planned and sequenced to equip students to succeed in life. Our curriculum supports students from all backgrounds, including those who are disadvantaged, so students can access a high-quality, knowledge-rich curriculum. Our school community believes strongly in providing disadvantaged pupils with a curriculum that enables them to reach the academic standards of their non-disadvantaged peers. Our goal is to engage our young people in the significant conversations of subject disciplines, thereby enriching our curriculum and enabling them to understand the world around them.
About the Education Partnership Trust (EPT):
EPT was established in 2012 as a multi-academy trust and is an approved academy sponsor. Our vision is to create outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities. We benefit from our diverse and unique range of schools which include secondary mainstream, alternative provision and special and have a proven track record of sustained improvement. Our schools are united by a drive to improve opportunities and outcomes for children and young people within a collaborative learning culture.
Our staff are our most valued asset so we continually invest in our colleagues and we believe that all teaching and support staff posts within our schools are key in terms of supporting pupil achievement and improving their life chances. As such we are keen to recruit dedicated and ambitious professionals who will add value to our schools and trust by helping our young people to succeed.
“If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, we want you to work for Education Partnership Trust.”
Our extensive range of rewards and benefits include:
- Healthcare cash back plan provided free by the trust includes optical, dental, physio, diagnostics, health assessment, NHS prescription charges, hospital cover, discounted gym memberships plus lots more.
- Employee Assistance Programme including, counselling, CBT, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Access to government pension schemes.
- Free parking.
- Electric Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice).
- Training, mentoring and progression opportunities including our Emerging Leaders programmes.
- Trust wide intranet to share knowledge and resources.
Incomplete application forms will not be shortlisted, if you need to discuss a reason for being unable to complete a section, please contact the recruitment team HR@ept-uk.com
We warmly welcome an informal visit or a conversation prior to application. Please contact the School Business Manager – lcarruthers@atherton-ept.com
Please be advised, as part of due diligence checks, online searches will be carried out on shortlisted candidates.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are actively committed to safeguarding all our pupils and staff.
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 Atherton High School
- School type
- Free School, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 525 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Atherton High School website
AHS is an amazing school, with the most wonderful staff. The school has grown and develop through understanding that our staff are our most valued asset so we continually invest in our colleagues and we believe that all teaching and support staff posts within our schools are key in terms of supporting pupil achievement and improving their life chances.
As such we are keen to recruit dedicated and ambitious professionals who will add value to our schools and trust by helping our young people to succeed.
Situated with great commuter links, AHS, serves all pupils from our local community.
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