Pastoral Support Advisor
Boringdon Primary School, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 4HJ18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,992.00 - £28,624.00 Annually (FTE)
Pastoral Support Advisor job summary
Job Purpose:
To take a lead role in providing high quality and effective safeguarding and pastoral support across the school, maintaining accurate records and working with staff, pupils, parents and external agencies to ensure appropriate plans and strategies ar ein palce to support pupils and their families. To lead peer to peer mentoring and deliver small group interventions to meet the needs of pupils.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Pastoral/SEND:
Meet with pupils and parents as necessary to address pastoral concerns
To develop, agree and implement time bound action plans with groups or individuals linked to the needs of vulnerable pupils and to maintain accurate record of work for each identified pupil
To liaise closely with school staff to ensure that everyone understands and supports the strategies being used by the Pastoral Support Advisor/SENCO to develop pupils' skills for learning and learning behaviour
To contribute to the identification of barriers for learning with individual children and provide them with a range of strategies for overcoming barriers including ELSA support as recommended by external agencies, parents and/or staff
To lead peer to peer mentoring programmes across the school, focused on social interactions during play/lunchtimes
To work closely with the SLT, Attendance Officer and Educational Welfare Officer to improve attendance of vulnerable pupils
Take a joint lead to develop pastoral care of pupils, providing CPD as necessary
Lead workshops and arrange external talks to educate parents in pastoral trends and issues facing pupils
Pupil Wellbeing:
Take a lead role in developing and implementing practices which reflect the school's commitment to positive behaviour and emotional well-being
Contribute to the school's positive behaviour policy
To deliver interventions to groups or individuals including those with SEN to meet their needs
To assist external agencies such as school nurse, MHST and MAST when working with parents
To assist in coordination the parent forum
Admissions and Transitions:
To support the pastoral transition of vulnerable pupils particularly from Nursery to Reception and Year 6 to Year 7
Management and General:
To be point of contact with parents/carers in relation to pastoral care and behaviour matters. Liaising with teaching staff and senior leaders
Follow up all correspondence from parents/carers to ensure all enquiries have been dealt with
Meet parents as required
Attend Senior Leadership Team and staff meeting as required
To keep up to date with the range of activities, courses and opportunities, organisations and individuals that could be drawn upon to provide support to pupils and build up a detailed knowledge of support available
To participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) relevant to the role and to engage in Performance Development Reviews (PDRs).
To act in accordance with, and actively promote, all Trust policies, including Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
Preparing and contributing to Trust wide development by sharing best practice and delivering/receiving professional feedback
To retain confidentiality and maintain data and/or files in accordance with Trust policies for data governance, as appropriate for the role
To adopt a trauma informed approach in work within families.
If you have any questions regarding the role please email: admin@boringdon.plymouth.sch.uk or call us on 01752330424
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this post.
Information about our key policies is available at: https://www.westst.org.uk/our-policies (this includes our DBS Policy, Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, and Recruitment and Selection Policy).
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Boringdon Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 394 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Boringdon Primary School website
School location
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