Pastoral Support Assistant
The Netherhall School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 8NN21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 August 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 22.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (Term Time Only + 1 week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC Cambridgeshire Scale 3 points 5 - 6 (£25,583 - £25,989 FTE) Pro rata to the hours and weeks worked
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Educated to at least GCSE / O Level standard in English and Maths, with a Grade C or equivalent
- Experience working or supporting children / young people
- Good written and spoken English as well as excellent communication skills
- A positive interest in working with children
- Adaptability
- Ability to build good relationships with children and colleagues
- Remain calm and patient
- Willingness to fit into the ethos of the school
- Competent use of IT – particularly MS Office
- Positive, proactive and flexible approach to working
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people
What the school offers its staff
Joining Anglian Learning comes with a range of benefits, fostering both personal and professional growth. Our coaching and mentoring programmes are designed to offer tailored support that enhances your skills and career development.
Other benefits and support available to all Trust employees include:
- Career Average Revalued Earnings Pension Scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Free membership to all Anglian Learning Sports Centres
- 20% discount on Anglian Learning Adult Education Courses
- Professional Development Scheme Policy
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a range of services to staff and their families
- Specsavers VDU Vouchers
- Boots Flu Vouchers
- Access to a wide range of discounts on high street and online shopping via ‘Teacher Discounts’ and the ‘Blue Light’ card
Further information about the job
We are seeking enthusiastic, motivated and compassionate individuals to join our Climate Team – a therapeutic and evolving provision focused on supporting the diverse and ever-changing needs of our learners.
This is an exciting time to join us as we continue to develop innovative approaches that remove barriers to learning, nurture emotional wellbeing, and unlock each student’s potential. If you have practical skills or relevant qualifications – whether in creative arts, vocational training, outdoor learning, or therapeutic approaches – we would welcome the opportunity to grow our offer with you.
We are ambitious for every one of our learners and equally committed to the development and wellbeing of
our staff. You will be part of a forward-thinking, supportive team within an innovative and collaborative multi
academy trust that values professional growth and creative thinking.
Our central belief is that great schools recruit and retain great support staff, teachers and leaders. You will
be joining an ambitious, vibrant, and supportive working environment. You will be working with outstanding
colleagues who are passionate about their subject specialism and pedagogy and who show extraordinary
commitment and dedication to the young people in their care, as well as being hugely supportive of each
other. You will be joining a vibrant, ambitious, and caring team, where every role plays a vital part in helping
young people thrive.
Within the Climate Team, we champion collaboration, creativity, and compassion. You'll work alongside colleagues who are deeply committed to inclusion and wellbeing, who bring a wide range of skills and experiences, and who are always ready to support each other. Whether your strengths lie in direct student support, therapeutic practice, or bringing practical and vocational learning to life, your contribution will be truly valued as we continue to shape and grow.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About The Netherhall School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1259 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- hrhub1@anglianlearning.org
The Netherhall School is part of the Anglian Learning family of schools. We are a thriving and highly distinctive co-educational 11–16 school, serving Cambridge City and beyond. We are proud to have been at the centre of high quality educational activity in Cambridge since 1871, 150 years and counting.
Our school values centre on establishing a strong community based on great relationships. They are summed up in the phrase, ‘Inspiring, Individual, Inclusive.’
INSPIRING
We believe that students learn best in an environment which inspires them, high quality facilities in purpose built spaces. Also that student deserve the most inspiring teachers and support staff delivering a world-class curriculum. In this environment, students thrive and, in turn, inspire us.
INDIVIDUAL
We believe that each student brings their own unique potential and talents to the school. We tailor our curriculum and support to meet the needs of each individual rather than using a ‘best fit’ methodology. Extra-curricular activities are not seen as an optional extra but as an expected part of a student’s discovery of themselves. Complementing this, all students build a portfolio of their achievements in and out of school through their years at Netherhall; this takes the form of their Pride Pledge which in accessible on our ALIS intranet site.
INCLUSIVE
Netherhall is a school where all students and staff are valued, enjoy an atmosphere of tolerance and respect, growing together as a school family.
We believe that the synergy of these three factors make a successful school and we continue to work with all stakeholders to produce students with: excellent academic outcomes; empathy and tolerance of each other, their faiths and backgrounds; excellent skills of communication; teamwork; and who have the self-motivation and resilience needed to be successful in the outside world.
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