Pastoral Support Assistant

Skinners' Academy, London, N4 1SY

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Immediate Start

• Closing date

  30 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 September 2026

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: £26,658.85 - £28,456.61 Annually (FTE) Salary: Scale 4, Spine Point Range 18 - 21

Pastoral Support Assistant job summary

Skinners' Academies Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Pastoral Support Assistant to join a team that participates in the development and implementation of strategies to maintain the highest standards of student behaviour at Skinners' Academy.

Our Vision:

Skinners' Academy is an aspirational and inclusive community in which we expect staff and students to be the best they can be. We support this goal by offering and environment characterised by high challenge and high support. We take pride in our academically rigorous curriculum, our wide-ranging enrichment programme and our excellent pastoral support systems. All of these ‘ingredients’ ensure that we provide a stimulating and rewarding working environment for our staff and a rich and well-rounded educational experience to our students. We want our students to excel and recognise that, to achieve this, they need the input of a highly skilled and motivated staff body. As such, we seek to invest in our staff - our most valuable resource - to support their ongoing professional development and equip them with the expertise to facilitate students’ learning and personal development to the highest level.

You will be a highly motivated professional who enjoys working as part of a high performing team. You will be just as committed to supporting others to achieve their full potential as you are to achieving personal progress and success. You will have an ethical commitment to inclusive education and will enjoy the challenges and rewards of working in a diverse school community that serves students from many different backgrounds. Regardless of students’ backgrounds, you will hold nothing but the highest of aspirations and expectations of them and will be wholly committed to ensuring that their experience of education is characterised by success. If this sounds like you, we welcome your application and hope you will become a valued member of the Skinners’ community.

About Us:

• Reconfirmed as a ‘Good’ school by Ofsted in May 2022, with significant year-on-year improvements in student outcomes that place us above the national averages at Key Stages 4 and 5.
• We provide a world-class education for students aged 11-19, in a modern state of the art building that opened in September 2010.
• We provide a welcoming, caring and stimulating environment with excellent teaching facilities.
• We have pupils who are highly motivated to excel and are fully supported by parents who work with us in close partnership.
• We have excellent transport links; 5-minute walk from the bus stop or Manor House Underground Station which is served by the Piccadilly Line.
• We have high-quality teaching and support staff who are fully committed to supporting pupil’s academic and personal development and work collaboratively with their peers to share best practice.
• We offer excellent opportunities for professional development and progression.
• We support staff and student wellbeing through many initiatives, including a two-week half term holiday in the Autumn Term.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 30th September 2026, 9am. Interviews will take place during the week commencing Monday 5th October 2026.

We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.

Skinners’ Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced criminal record check via the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) will be undertaken for the successful candidate, including a check of the DBS Children's Barred List. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with the DBS and at least two satisfactory references.

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Skinners' Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 939 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Skinners' Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/skinners-academy

Our Vision:

‘‘Be the best you can" this is what we ask of our pupils and our staff.

We are committed to providing the very best educational experience for our young people and invite applicants who share this commitment and want to be a part of our success story. We believe in the power of the curriculum and so intentionally have the following at the core of our practice:

• A pragmatic approach to pedagogical practice that reduces teacher workload
• Teaching powerful knowledge rather than parroting the knowledge of the powerful
• CPD which is rooted in the best educational research, often with a foundation in cognitive science

The Academy is on a journey from Good to Great and appointed a new Principal in September 2020 to ensure that this objective is realised.

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