Pastoral Support Advisor
Upland Primary School, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 4DG2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,552.78 - £25,552.78 Annually (Actual)
Pastoral Support Advisor job summary
Essential skills:
- Mental Health First Aider
- Trained in therapeutic interventions
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Build trusting relationships with pupils to support their emotional wellbeing.
- Provide early intervention for pupils showing signs of emotional or behavioural difficulties.
- Work with parents/carers to support family engagement and home-school relationships.
- Support pupils with issues like friendship problems, anxiety, bereavement, behaviour, or attendance.
- Liaise with teachers, SENCOs, safeguarding leads, and external agencies as needed.
- Deliver or coordinate small group or 1:1 pastoral interventions (e.g. social skills, self-esteem, emotional regulation).
- Monitor and report on pupil progress and wellbeing.
- Promote a safe and inclusive school environment.
- Assist with or lead reintegration plans for pupils returning after exclusion or extended absence.
Essential Qualities and Skills:
- Empathy and patience – ability to connect with children and understand their emotional needs.
- Excellent communication – with children, parents, staff, and outside professionals.
- Active listening skills – to support children in expressing their feelings.
- Discretion and confidentiality – when handling sensitive issues.
- Behaviour management skills – supporting positive choices and de-escalating situations.
- Teamwork – collaborating closely with teaching staff, safeguarding leads, and families.
- Good organisational skills – for record keeping and planning interventions.
- Understanding of safeguarding and child protection procedures.
- Basic knowledge of mental health, SEND, and trauma-informed practice.
Desirable Qualities and Experience:
- Background in education, social care, counselling, or youth work.
- Experience delivering pastoral or therapeutic interventions (e.g., Lego therapy, Zones of Regulation).
- Knowledge of attachment theory, ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), or SEMH needs.
- Training in mental health first aid, ELSA, or similar.
- Experience working with multi-agency teams (e.g. CAMHS, social care).
- Ability to engage reluctant or hard-to-reach families.
- Creative approaches to support emotional wellbeing (e.g. play-based, art-based, or outdoor work).
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 Upland Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 475 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Upland Primary School website
School location
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