Pastoral Manager
Leasowes High School, Halesowen, West Midlands, B62 8PJ40 days remaining to apply
Start date details
To be confirmed
Closing date
2 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 Months
Pay scale
- Grade 7 SCP 18-23 FTE £29,269 - £32,076 Actual Annual Salary £25,491 - £28,444 pay award pending
What skills and experience we're looking for
Pastoral Manager
Required as soon as possible
Fixed Term 12 months,
Full time (37 hours per week)
Term time only (39 weeks per year)
Grade 7 SCP 18-23 FTE £29,269 - £32,076 pay award pending
Actual Annual Salary £25,491 - £28,444 pay award pending
We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools, one primary school, and two alternative provisions, with over 750 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley and Staffordshire in the West Midlands.
At Invictus we are values driven and as such believe ‘anything is possible’. Our alternative provision estate supports learners to share the same ethos; young people who are most vulnerable are supported to flourish and experience success. Both Greenhill Alternative Learning in Halesowen and Invictus Revive Learning Base at Leasowes aim to support young people in KS3 and 4 who have been unable to achieve in a mainstream setting.
We are seeking a dedicated pastoral manager to support young people based in our settings. The post holder will be the first point of contact for pastoral support to students.
This is a full time position based in well-equipped and well-resourced learning environments. If you are resilient, hardworking, and organised we would welcome your application to join the ‘dream team’.
Working under guidance of the Director for Alternative Provision the successful candidate will provide pastoral support to students in alternative provision to overcome barriers to learning in order to achieve excellent outcomes.
Regular duties would include:
- To act as a deputy DSL as required, ensuring strategic priorities are achieved to keep vulnerable children safe.
- Ensure support packages have a clear focus on learning, progress and the development of skills and competencies.
- Contribute to coaching, mentoring and sharing good practice, across AP and with partner schools.
- Contribute to individual pupil records ensuring they have up-to-date details of the curriculum support, input and alternative intervention / support that has been provided.
- Support the drive for excellent academic results by ensuring pupils needing intervention receive support, encouragement and guidance as appropriate and necessary to raise individual pupil achievement and aspirations.
- Demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set stretching targets for the whole AP community.
- Empower a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning.
- Ensure that professional development contributes to strategic priorities and enhances learning
- Develop the shared vision for the school
- Involved in the development and maintenance of a high-quality positive learning environment to raise standards
- To support staff in making sure high-quality intervention programmes are in place when underachievement is identified.
- Manage, plan and oversee suitable support packages for pupils in their reintegration to school following a period of exclusion/absence.
- Keep in contact with parents of pupils in the year group, and in particular, with those needing more careful monitoring relating to attendance and punctuality, behaviour, bullying or medical needs - ensuring positive family support and involvement.
- Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying – keep records of all bullying incidents and actions taken.
- Safeguarding and child protection responsibilities, including first point of call for students.
Closing date: Monday 2nd September 2024, 12 noon
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Interviews due to take place: W/c 9th September 2024
What the school offers its staff
Leasowes High School, located in Halesowen, is a “Good” school that aspires to be outstanding. We have created a traditional ethos and value highly such things as excellent standards of uniform, strong standards of discipline, high expectations of behaviour, personal resilience, fairness and a caring attitude towards the school and local community. Our school motto is “Aspire and Achieve”, and this positive yet challenging message underpins all that we do to achieve the very best outcomes for our students.
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.
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About Leasowes High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1060 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Leasowes High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@invictus.education
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