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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    20 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    6 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time, part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£35,235.00 - £38,626.00 Annually (FTE)

Pastoral Manager job summary

Pastoral Manager

Salary : Band 6, SCP 25-29, £35,235 - £38,626 per annum

Basis: Permanent, Full Time

Hours and Basis: 37 hours per week over 39 weeks per year (term time only)

We are looking for an enthusiastic, determined and committed Pastoral Manager to be part of our Pastoral Department at Saint Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy. This is an exciting time to join our flourishing team!

The Role:

  • Take an active role in leading the implementation of the whole school attendance strategy.
  • Monitoring attendance whole school, identifying students who require additional support and following procedures to ensure improving attendance trends.
  • To work in close collaboration with the pastoral care team to ensure the safeguarding, behaviour and attendance of all pupils in their care.

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate will be part of the Pastoral team working with the Deputy Headteacher to manage all aspects of Pastoral care for all students with a particular focus on improving whole school attendance and contributing to the effective safeguarding of pupils. The Pastoral Manager will be responsible for monitoring attendance rates, reducing pupil absence and engaging with families to support them fulfil their legal responsibilities or leading the Implementation of the whole school behaviour policy, Maintaining the levels of expectations and consistency in application of the policy.

The St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to satisfactory references, which will be requested, prior to interview, an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, medical check, evidence of qualifications plus verification of the right to work in the UK.

Please note that the closing date may be brought forward depending upon interest.

Being part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust

On 1st September 2018, the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust, part of the Diocese of Nottingham, brought together 25 Catholic schools located in Derby City, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Stockport together in partnership, to ensure the very best spiritual, social and academic experiences and outcomes for the young people in our schools.

Everything we do is to better the lives and futures of our children, providing access to first-class teaching, both academically and spiritually and we are united by our collective vision to excel.

Why work for the St Ralph Sherwin Multi Academy Trust?

To find out why you should come and join our team, click on the link to our ‘Why work with us?’ brochure.

A summary of our fantastic benefits are as follows:

  • Access to first class CPD opportunities. We also work in partnership with Nottingham Teaching School Alliance to deliver meaningful and relevant CPD. Our Leadership Academy identifies and develops future leaders.
  • Genuine opportunities for career progression - with 25 academies in our family, and 84 academies across the Diocese, opportunities for career progression are a reality.
  • Professional assistance - you will have access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential, independent and unbiased information and guidance 24/7. If clinically advisable, it also offers face-to-face counselling sessions.
  • Pension - automatic enrolment into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme with 23.68% employer contributions, or to the Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff, one of the most competitive on the market, with employer contributions of above 20% in most cases.
  • Terms and Conditions - we have committed to following nationally agreed terms and conditions for pay for both teachers and support staff.

For more information about our Trust and our Academies, please visit www.srscmat.co.uk

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

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About St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
582 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy is a mixed, comprehensive, Roman Catholic secondary school situated in the thriving town of Glossop, Derbyshire. It is part of the newly formed Catholic Multi Academy Trust; St Ralph Sherwin.

The school is has good commuter links to Stockport, Macclesfield and Manchester by car and rail.

A smaller than average secondary school, St Philip Howard currently has 480 pupils on roll and is growing rapidly. St Philip Howard is on a journey to outstanding and since the Academy opened in September 2015 has gone from strength to strength. The recent Inspections which took place in 2018 have confirmed this.

Ofsted inspected the Academy in January 2018. Inspectors acknowledged the hard work and commitment of the Senior Leadership Team, Staff and Governors.

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