Pastoral Manager
Harris Academy Clapham, London, SW4 8LDThis job expired on 31 July 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
31 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Actual salary £33,029.04-£34,558.59 (39 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,286-£40,059
Pay scale
- Grade 7 (Inner London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, skilled and knowledgeable Pastoral Manager.
You will join a well-established, highly supportive and collaborative subject team.
This is an excellent opportunity to work in a growing Academy, where you will be highly supported by both the Academy team and the wider Harris Federation. As the Academy grows to full capacity there is a wide range of opportunities for future career progression.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- A good standard of education
- Evidence of pastoral related training
- Evidence of recent relevant ICT training
- Current First Aid certification, or willingness to undergo training
- Current mini-bus licence or willingness to undergo training to get one
- Experience of working with students from the 11-16 age range
- Experience of using ICT to monitor attendance and punctuality, or willingness to undergo training
- Experience of developing student autonomy through strategies such as peer mentoring
- Experience of using extra-curricular activities to enhance motivation and attainment
- Experience of raising levels of attendance and punctuality through rigorous monitoring, reporting and follow-up action
- Experience of using ICT for curriculum and administration purposes
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where‘everything is possible'.
TheClapham curriculumis designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of every one of our students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
At Harris Clapham, the curriculum is delivered through high-quality teaching. This is codified in our research-informed approach to pedagogy, which we call the Clapham Way.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible'.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits.
Further information about the job
The purpose of your role will to be lead and manage the pastoral needs of a year group by developing effective systems and strategies to ensure that students are supported to enable them to fulfil their educational potential.
Your responsibilities will fall under the areas of:
- Leadership, including supporting in planning intervention programmes, contributing to leadership meetings with detailed weekly behaviour analysis, and tracking and monitoring behaviour interventions
- Student management, including developing and implementing behaviour management strategies and motivating and rewarding students
- Student welfare, including leading on the development of student welfare strategies, implementing and monitoring the uniform policy and building and maintaining relationships with outside agencies
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
About Harris Academy Clapham
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 891 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harris Academy Clapham website
- Email address
- info@harrisclapham.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0204 513 9350
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where ‘everything is possible’.
The Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of individual students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
By this we mean that:
every student is supported to fully develop their academic and personal talents; we help students to go on and achieve their dreams and help others
we work with our families to support all our students, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities
we are a supportive part of the Lambeth community, working with our neighbours and others as best we can
every member of staff is supported in becoming the best that they can be, including their future career prospects and ambitions.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible’:
Our key values
Endeavour for excellence
Learning to work hard and relish challenge.
Learning to never give up.
Learning to take sensible risks.
Learning to always strive for the best for themselves and each other.
Integrity and honesty
Always acting with kindness.
Treating others the way they would like to be treated.
Self-belief with a global view
Growing to have the agency to achieve their ambitions for themselves and the wider world.
A central core of our ethos is to fully develop students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural wellbeing. We ensure that our students understand their role in making the academy and their community a safer and better place. We do this in a wide variety of ways, including after-school activities, during lessons, school visits and working with a range of external organisations such as local and national charities.
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