Pastoral Support Assistant

Eckington School, Sheffield, Derbyshire, S21 4GN

Deadline is tomorrow

Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 February 2025

Job details

Job role: Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours/39 weeks
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: Grade 4 SCP 7-12 £25,584 - £27,711 (pro rata £22,005 - £23,835)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Required to start as soon as possible, a Pastoral Support Assistant to work within our friendly, fast paced and experienced team, providing an efficient and effective pastoral support service, you must be able to follow systems, procedures and processes to the standards required by the School, Trust and appropriate regulatory bodies.

Responsibilities will include working with the Heads of Year, Senior Leadership Team, support staff team, teaching staff and outside agencies to ensure all our students receive relevant, appropriate and focused support and behave to the high standards expected in our school. Previous experience of working with young people would be an advantage.

The post holder will also play a key part in the administrative function of the School, inputting and analysing student data, communicating both verbally and in writing with a variety of stakeholders and undertaking a range of pastoral administrative duties.

Benefits include:

CPD support from one of the largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance, throughout your career.
Opportunities to develop skills and experience as part of a growing, local Trust.

Chorus Education Trust is proud to support flexible working arrangements.

What the school offers its staff

Eckington School is an 11-18 comprehensive secondary school in North-East Derbyshire with more than 1200 students on roll, including 150 in the school’s Sixth Form. In April 2023, Eckington School joined Chorus Education Trust, also welcoming a new Headteacher.

As part of our values, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at Chorus. We actively celebrate colleagues’ different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.

You can view the school website at: www.eckington.net

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.