Pastoral Support Manager
Penwith Alternative Provision Academy, Penzance, TR18 3NXThis job expired on 17 April 2023
Start date details
1st Sep 2023 or sooner
Closing date
17 April 2023 at 5pm
Date listed
23 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, term time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,151 - £33,820 pro rata
Pay scale
- NJC22 - 27
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an outstanding, dynamic Pastoral Support Manager who embodies the Trust’s values; someone with diverse experiences, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs.
Our ideal candidate will have excellent teamwork and communication skills, boundless patience and resilience and the ability and enthusiasm to make a difference with pupils who have a range of social, emotional and mental health needs.
As a member of the senior management team of the Trust, the successful candidate will work in collaboration with a variety of agencies which together with Wave Multi Academy Trust will provide help and support for young people. The Trust takes a ‘whole family’ approach, focusing on the strengths and difficulties of the whole family and supporting parents recognition that their children’s cognitive development is important, as is instilling of values, aspirations and support for the development of wider interpersonal and social skills. This unique position will provide the opportunity to play a key role in the effective safeguarding of children and young people across the county. This is a hands on role which provides both challenge and support and requires ability to travel widely at unsociable hours.
For a full list of duties, please see the job description.
What the school offers its staff
Work with Wave: What’s in it for you?
- Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Counselling
- Occupational Health Services
- Professional Development & Training
- Salary depending on experience
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Tech Scheme
- Free Will Writing Benefit
- Health & Wellbeing Champion
- Company sick pay dependent on service
- Free refreshments in workplace
Who We Are
Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.
We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon, Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.
We Aim To
- Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
- Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
- Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
- We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
- Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
- Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.
Further details about the role
Evidence shows that the values we embody empower young people to succeed; these are the values we are looking for when we recruit new staff or work with new stakeholders.
BE POSITIVE
It is our intention to stay constructive, optimistic and confident both for and with our young people and their families.
HAVE EMPATHY
We consider the consequences of our decisions, large and small on those around us.
SHOW RESPECT
We respect each other and those we work with.
WORK AS ONE TEAM
When we work together we are stronger. Together we will achieve more.
BE INCLUSIVE
Everybody is treated fairly and equally; no-one is marginalised or left behind.
BE POSITIVE
We value positivity, no matter what the circumstances. It is our intention to stay constructive, optimistic and confident both for and with our young people and their families.
HAVE EMPATHY
We are kind, we have empathy. We consider the consequences of our decisions, large and small on those around us.
SHOW RESPECT
We conduct ourselves in ways that earn the trust of those around us. We respect each other and those we work with.
WORK AS ONE TEAM
We depend on teamwork and the relationships we have. When we work together we are stronger. Together we will achieve more.
BE INCLUSIVE
Everybody is treated fairly and equally; no-one is marginalised or left behind. We are inclusive, we embrace the human spirit. We value diversity of people and thought.
Commitment to safeguarding
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check. An online check may be carried out.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Penwith Alternative Provision Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 16
- School size
- 33 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Penwith Alternative Provision Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@waveedu.org
Penwith Academy is a 40 place mixed sex academy for KS1 – KS4 pupils.
We serve the Penwith area that includes some of the most economically disadvantaged areas in Europe.
Arranging a visit to Penwith Alternative Provision Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@waveedu.org.
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