Pastoral Support Assistant
Fulbrook, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, MK17 8NP19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 December 2024
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
- £24,992.00 Annually (FTE) From £19,442 Pro Rata 39 Weeks
Pastoral Support Assistant job summary
Job Purpose:
Monitor and support students’ behaviour, progress, safety, well-being and attendance.
Be an integral part of the pastoral and behaviour team.
Work with students, staff, parents and external agencies, with the aim to help our young people participate positively to school life and experience success.
Support the staffing of our school reset and wellbeing facilities as directed by pastoral manager/assistant headteacher.
To act as a role model through delivering high quality pastoral care, engaging positively with continuous professional development and ensuring a professional presence.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Support the staffing of our school reset and wellbeing facilities as directed by pastoral manager/assistant headteacher.
- Support administrative tasks linked to detentions and the schools reset and wellbeing facilities.
- Support the staffing of detentions on a rota with the heads of year
- Liaise with heads of year to identify and work with key students
- Monitoring data and consistency of recording; communicating with parents; logging information on Arbor (MIS).
- Plan and carry out pastoral and behaviour interventions with identified students logging all communication and intervention appropriately.
- Support and mentor identified students, on a 1:1 basis, with pastoral care needs, logging all communication and intervention appropriately.
- Attend student support meeting, once a week after-school, as required.
- Attend/lead meetings as required - including parent meetings and outside agency meetings.
Investigate reported incidents as they arise in school.
Deal with issues in a positive manner, communicating actions to staff, students and parents as appropriate.
Manage restorative meetings as required.
Monitor behaviour through the producing and sharing of day-to-day data.
Be part of the Behaviour and Pastoral Team; monitor/analyse the patterns of behaviour to ensure the effectiveness of the strategies adopted by the school.
Encourage assigned students with Behaviour, Emotional and Social needs to participate positively to school life.
Support students with the process of improving their behaviour.
Guide and support assigned students in achieving their personalised behavioural and learning targets.
Support our whole school approach to behaviour management – especially our restorative and relational practice.
Support reintegration of pupils on return to school from suspension.
Contribute to the development of policies relating to behaviour management and well-being and undertake training with staff groups to ensure a consistent approach throughout the school.
Liaise and communicate with outside agencies: Early Help Team, social services (MK and CBC), CHUMS, police, school councillor, welfare officer, as necessary; attend appropriate meetings involving Team Around the Child, Child in Need and Child Protection.
Support vulnerable pupils: disadvantaged, looked after children, young carers and persistent non-attenders; help remove barriers to learning.
Liaise with the relevant members of staff, including the Deputy Head Teacher (DSL) and DDSLs, on issues of a pastoral and/or safeguarding nature, with active involvement in team meetings.
Be alert to safeguarding issues; log and pass on concerns as appropriate; deal confidentially and sensitively with parents and pupils undergoing difficulties.
Log issues, communications and interventions on the appropriate platforms such as Arbor and My Concern.
Support individual students to access lessons and learning, helping them to meet the expectations of the school.
Build strong relationships with parents, carers and families, making contact as required to ensure positive family support in meeting the school’s expectations. Communicate outcomes of meetings as required.
Contribute to the writing and implementation of support plans for identified pupils
Ensure all Health and Safety regulations are complied with, as well as school policies, for example Safeguarding, Data Protection and e-safety.
Ensure confidentiality is observed at all times.
Comply with any reasonable request from line manager or senior member of staff to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
Commitment to safeguarding
Fulbrook is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; all staff are expected to share this commitment and all applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with previous employers, prior to interview. An enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check is required for all successful applicants.
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 Fulbrook
- School type
- Academy, ages 9 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 503 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Fulbrook website (opens in new tab)
Fulbrook is a very popular, high achieving school, which is now an extended secondary school, providing education for Years 5 – 9 and extending the offer to Year 11 by September 2024. Please visit our school website to learn more about the school vision. The future is coming… Come with us!
Set in a magnificent green field site, just within the county boundary of Bedfordshire, the school is close to the exciting and vibrant city of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. Our current number on roll is 470. As a 9-16 extended secondary school, we shall have approximately 720 pupils on roll by 2024.
We are a school, where everyone is known, valued and supported to achieve personal success.
We offer a very popular cash back health insurance package, providing dental, optical, diagnostic consultations, scans and various therapies including physio, chiropractic and osteopathy.
Fulbrook is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; all staff are expected to share this commitment and all applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with previous employers, prior to interview. An enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check is required for all successful applicants.
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