Pastoral Manager
Silverdale School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 9QH13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
2 November 2025 at 10:59pm
Date listed
7 October 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
- £30,024.00 - £32,597.00 Annually (FTE) Pro Rata £27,147 - £29,474
Pastoral Manager job summary
The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in the transition from primary school into secondary school. They will liaise with primary colleagues, parents and students during the summer term to gather information and plan for transition events, including summer school in the summer holiday. The post holder will work with the Key Stage Leader for Y7 inducting and supporting transition in Year 7 providing pastoral care, intervention and working collegiately with staff across the pastoral and inclusion team.
You must be able to follow systems, procedures and processes to the standards required by the School, Trust and appropriate regulatory bodies.
Responsibilities will include working with the Key Stage Leaders, Senior Leadership Team, Inclusion Team, teaching staff and outside agencies to ensure all our students receive relevant, appropriate and focused support and behave to the high standards expected in our school. Previous experience of working with young people would be an advantage.
The post holder will also play a key part in the administrative function of the school, inputting and analysing student data, communicating both verbally and in writing with a variety of stakeholders and undertaking a range of pastoral administrative duties.
The post holder must at all times carry out their responsibilities within the spirit of the school and trust policies and within the framework of legislation relating to academies and education, with particular regard to the statutory responsibilities of the trust and the governing body of the school.
The specific duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Specific duties and responsibilities
Support for Students
To provide appropriate pastoral care and support to students.
Attend to students’ needs and provide advice to assist in their safe personal, social and health development in conjunction with the Inclusion Team and other staff with Safeguarding responsibilities.
Use a range of information including approach to learning, attendance data, behaviour and rewards to determine those in need of a particular type of help and support.
Work with Key Stage Leaders and teaching staff in order to improve behaviour, attendance and engagement in learning.
Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a positive role model.
Arrange and develop 1:1 mentoring with identified students and provide support for distressed students, liaising with other lead professionals in house to meet the diverse needs of young people.
Actively support students to ensure they have an effective and successful transition to each key stage.
Provide feedback to students which enables them to make positive choices about their own learning, progression, behaviour or attendance.
Motivate and challenge students to promote and reinforce self-esteem.
Monitor and evaluate pupils’ responses and progress against individual plans (e.g., behaviour reports or pastoral support plans).
Communicate with parents, groups of students and individual students and other stakeholders in a professional and timely manner.
Support for Teachers
Liaise with feeder schools and other relevant bodies to gather student information to support the successful transition of students into school.
Support disengaged students’ access to learning using appropriate strategies, resources etc.
Provide reports as required on student behaviour, attendance and other pastoral matters to help inform further intervention and support, ensuring that accurate records are maintained as evidence of interventions/discussions held.
Facilitate accurate record keeping systems.
Contribute to the development of behaviour management strategies in discussion with subject teachers, Heads of Faculty/Subject, Inclusion Team and the relevant Senior Leaders.
Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging information about their child’s attendance, punctuality and uniform.
Develop constructive relationships with parents / carers to improve their child’s attitude to and engagement with learning.
Arrange and facilitate parental meetings regarding behaviour, attendance and other pastoral matters.
To support the Key Stage Leader in the development, implementation and monitoring of systems relating to attendance and engagement with learning e.g., truancy, links with Attendance and Inclusion workers.
Provide supervision of students who are accessing Seclusion Room and provide ‘On Call Support’ in response to incidents inside and outside of the classroom.
Support SLT by supervising students at lunchtime when appropriate.
The Pastoral Manager will work with the Key Stage Leaders and Senior Leadership team, Inclusion Team and Teaching Staff who are responsible for the progress of all students in the Year Group.
Support for the trust/school
Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
Work in a flexible way to respond to the needs of the trust and to fulfil other duties and responsibilities appropriate to the grade and role as and when required.
Be aware of and support difference and ensure equal opportunities for all.
Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.
Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.
Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the trust/schools.
Participate in relevant training, other learning activities and performance management as required.
Team responsibilities: all staff are considered part of the overall trust team and may be required to provide assistance to colleagues in other areas from time to time commensurate with the role, skillset and grade.
From time to time, to meet the needs of the trust, you may be asked but not expected to work hours additional to your normal working hours. The trust will give you as much notice as possible and you will be paid/recompensed for such work. Situations where this might be required are, for example: relevant key school events such as open evenings, exam results days, trips, clubs, training etc.
Changes to these duties
The above duties are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake tasks, roles and responsibilities as may be reasonably assigned to them by the Headteacher/Principal.
The job description and allocation of particular responsibilities will be kept under review and may be amended via consultation with individuals, the governing body or board of trustees and/or senior leadership team as required. Trade union representation will be welcomed in any such discussions
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Silverdale School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1451 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Silverdale School website
Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high-achieving 11-18 comprehensive in the south west of Sheffield and is now the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. The school achieved the best GCSE results in 2018 of any state school in Sheffield. At Post 16 the progress students make places Silverdale in the top 10% of schools nationally. At its heart is one of the country’s largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teaching School Alliance. Silverdale moved into a brand new building in January 2009 with a full complement of facilities. Silverdale School is part of Chorus Education Trust, and as such all appointees may be required to work at any Trust site in the future.
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