Pastoral Manager
Harris Academy Clapham, London, SW4 8LD35 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter or September
Closing date
8 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time only: actual salary £33,274.91-£34,804.46 (38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,571-£40,344
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 for a Pastoral Manager to support staff and students at Harris Academy Clapham, promoting a safe environment with excellent levels of behaviour so everyone is entitled to learn. You will help overcome barriers to learning using a range of techniques, including pupil counselling, focusing on the academic, social and emotional wellbeing of the pupils.
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 and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Contributing to the whole School Improvement Plan
- Contributing to the development of effective monitoring and evaluation of pastoral systems
- Contributing to planning programmes of intervention for those students who show significant underachievement and barriers to learning
- Contributing to leadership team meetings with detailed weekly behaviour analysis and actions
- Tracking and monitoring behaviour interventions
- Participating in the development and implementation of strategies to maintain acceptable student behaviour
- The management of student behaviour within the year group
- Developing and managing systems for the monitoring and tracking of students out of lessons
- Motivating and rewarding students
- Participating in year group assemblies
- Leading the development of effective relationships with parents
- Establishing and maintaining effective administration systems
- Leading in the development of robust and effective student welfare strategies
- Developing and implementing effective strategies for conflict resolution
- The implementation and monitoring of the academy's policy on uniform within the year group
- In the event of very serious incidents, collating of information for disciplinary action
- Establishing systems for the support and guidance of students during examinations
- Developing, building and maintaining relationships with outside agencies who may become involved with individual students.
- Leading in student welfare meetings with external agencies or other school groups
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Harris Academy Clapham
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 764 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Clapham website (opens in new tab)
- 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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