Pastoral Manager
Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AHThis job expired on 24 September 2021 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 September 2021 at 9am
Date listed
15 September 2021
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 37 hours per week. Term Time + 10 days. 8.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 4.00pm on a Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- R18
Actual salary
- Actual Salary £22,278.95 to £24,115.16 Starting salary will be commensurate with skills and experience
Additional allowances
- Interesting work as a key member of a supportive team
- A learning-centred school where the best possible practice is the priority
- The opportunity to develop personally and professionally
- A vibrant, supportive community of like-minded individuals
Pastoral Manager job summary
We are looking for a Pastoral Manager who will act as the key person for the exemplary pastoral care we have in place. They will lead and take responsibility for our new House Rewards system, which encompasses behaviour and standards across the school. The successful candidate will also play a key role in liaising with staff and parents as well as other educational institutions and multi-agency partners.
This is a demanding and complex role in a high achieving grammar school; the post holder must be extremely efficient and effective. The post holder will be responsible for working with staff to ensure the House Reward system is effectively implemented, as well as working closely with the Heads of Years and Achievement Leaders overseeing student performance. As such, experience of working with and leading people is an essential part of the role. As the Pastoral Manager has a key communication role to play with parents; excellent interpersonal and communication skills are crucial.
The Pastoral Manager will work in a dynamic and proactive team across all key stages with 6 Heads of Year, 4 Achievement Leaders as well as the Assistant and Deputy Headteachers
The right candidate for this post is one who thrives on variety and challenge.
On a typical day, the post holder may be dealing with students, meeting with a parent, organising a year group information event, planning an assembly, meeting with form tutors, discussing rewards and standards of the students, and observing how students are in lessons, as well as being being out and about on the corridors at social times.
As such, experience of working in a school setting is desirable, but not essential. However, a desire to work with young people is.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heckmondwike Grammar School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1522 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School of the Year”, in the North of England, for 2024 and 2025 in the Sunday Times Parent Power Guide. This is a measure of school performance for GCSE and A level outcomes.
At GCSE our students typically exceed government set target grades by more than 1 grade in each subject and we are ranked second nationally for state coeducational schools.
At A level, we rank in the top 20% of providers nationally for grades AAB or above and typically 3 times the national average of our students attend Oxbridge universities.
We are very proud of our academic heritage.
Misbehaviour is rare; and excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm: teachers are able to ‘get on and teach’. Working here is still challenging, however, but in different ways: expectations are high and potential applicants will need to be able to operate effectively in a top performing environment. However, one of the principal joys of working at this school is our eloquent and motivated students. Consequently, outcomes are amongst the very best in the country, and this is the result of able cohorts being provided with high quality teaching that is supported by strong pastoral care for each student. The school is justifiably proud of the focus on academic attainment and knowledge of each individual that enables education to be tailored to every student’s needs; but also prioritises the support it provides to enable any barriers to progress to be addressed. The focus is and will always remain teaching and learning in the classroom, with staff training and development being the main means of achieving this end.
The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed, with well over 1500 students applying for entry into Year 7 each year, competing for one of 210 places. Post 16, we are similarly oversubscribed with around 800 applications for one of approximately 225 places in year 12. The majority of our year 11 students continue into the sixth form and are joined by a number of similarly aspirant students from across the region.
We work in partnership with an extensive group of schools, including the Northern Grammar School Alliance (NGSA), and have a significant reputation both locally and nationally. This means we offer our staff opportunities to be involved in professional development on a larger scale and see it as a sign of our high quality when members of our community are promoted to posts elsewhere, or progress internally. As a result, all staff feel very privileged to work here and to work with our young people.
Further information about the school including main school and sixth form prospectus may be found on the school website at www.heckgrammar.co.uk
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