Pastoral Support Officer
King's Oak Academy, Bristol, Gloucestershire, BS15 4JT18 days remaining to apply
Job start date
3 September 2026
Closing date
7 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,109 - £25,211
Pastoral Support Officer job summary
Job Title: Pastoral Support Officer
Actual Annual Salary: £23,109 - £25,211 based on hours and weeks worked.
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £31,954 - £34,860 (CLF Grade D) based on 37 hours per week, all year round.
Contract Type: Fixed Term Until 31 August 2027
Hours: 31.25 hours per week, Term Time Only Plus insets
Provisional Start Date: 3 September 2026
We’re looking for a committed, compassionate Pastoral Support Officer to help students feel safe, supported, and ready to learn!
You’ll build strong relationships with students, families, and staff, lead our Reflection Room provision, and play a key role in promoting positive behaviour, attendance, and wellbeing.
You will work proactively to ensure students in the Reflection Room are supported to progress, analysing behaviour data and working with Heads of Year to create targeted intervention plans that keep students in the classroom. You’ll also develop resources, deliver bespoke interventions, and liaise with Heads of Department to ensure all work provided aligns with the curriculum.
In this fast-paced role, you’ll mentor students, respond to pastoral needs, support behaviour management, and help create a positive school environment where every young person can thrive. If you’re resilient, proactive, and passionate about supporting students’ personal development, we’d love to hear from you.
About you:
You will demonstrate:
- A good understanding of safeguarding within an educational setting or transferable knowledge of safeguarding.
- Experience of developing and maintaining good relationships with students and having appropriate contact with families and carers of children.
- A keen interest in working with children and young people and a commitment to improving the life chances of students.
- Commitment to continuous improvement through professional development, self-evaluation, and awareness.
- Please note: the ability to attend meetings and students homes is an essential part of this role so a full driving licence and use of vehicle will be required.
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
About King’s Oak Academy:
King’s Oak Academy is situated in the heart of the South Gloucestershire community and is within easy commuting distance of Bristol and Bath. The academy has been part of the Cabot Learning Federation since 2011 and enjoys the benefits from being part of a mature, successful MAT which offers access to excellent professional services and opportunities to work in collaboration with experienced professionals across the trust.
As an all-through school, King's Oak is in a privileged position to educate children aged 4-16 and support their families. The academy staff structure and estates are divided into three phases (Lower School = Reception to Year 4, Middle School = Years 5-8, Upper School = Years 9-11). This structure ensures that learning is high quality and bespoke for each child, long-term relationships are fostered with families and King's Oak employees benefit from the unique CPD and leadership opportunities that are available as a result of working in an all-through community school.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Comprehensive induction and ongoing support for career development and wellbeing.
- Sector-leading professional development entitlement and opportunities.
- Collaboration with colleagues across the trust through subject communities and specialist networks.
- Shared CLF curriculum, written and curated by trust experts, reducing individual teacher workload.
- Career enhancing and progression opportunities within the trust and through the CLF Institute.
- A collaborative culture which supports workload.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking and many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing date: 7 June 2026 @11:59pm
- Shortlisting date: 8 June 2026
- Interview date: 19 June 2026
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs, a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Please note we do not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About King's Oak Academy
- School type
- Academies, None, ages 4 to 19
- Education phase
- All through school
- School size
- 993 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King's Oak Academy website
King’s Oak Academy is an 1170 place (Reception – Y11) mixed gender academy situated in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire. The Academy draws its intake primarily from the local Kingswood community. Typically, the prior attainment (KS2 points score) of students on entry to King’s Oak Academy in Year 7 is below the national average. In 2020, the proportion of students who have SEN and/or disabilities is above the national average whilst the proportion of students supported by the pupil premium grant is in line with the national average.
King’s Oak benefits from a large and well situated site within easy commuting distance of the cities of Bristol and Bath. The academy has become increasingly popular with parents and the community, with rising numbers in Year 7 for September 2020. Both sites are located on the same campus. We are lucky enough to have a great deal of open space and our staff and pupils enjoy the flexibility to work with students across both facilities.
Since 2011 King’s Oak Academy has been part of the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF). The CLF is a collaborative multi-academy trust, whose mission is ‘to consistently deliver excellent educational experiences for pupils aged 3-19, improving their life chances and serving our communities’. After the commissioning of a two-form entry primary phase through South Gloucestershire local authority, King’s Oak Academy changed its status from a secondary academy to an all-through academy in September 2015. This was marked by the completion of our Primary phase building called the Acorn, an open plan building designed to house 420 lower phase pupils. Since 2015, King’s Oak Academy has continued to develop its long-standing secondary provision whilst building up the primary phase each year with a cohort of 60 pupils joining the Academy in Reception each year. By September 2021 the Academy will reach both its centenary year and full all-through status.
The staff team at King’s Oak consists of newly appointed and highly experienced leaders, teachers and support staff. All are driven to deliver exceptional experiences, educational outcomes for young people and the KOA values ‘Work Hard, Be Kind’. Staff take collective responsibility to ensure that during each pupil's time at King’s Oak they develop ambition, passion, a sense of justice, a desire to serve the communities in which they live, an understanding of how to promote safety in themselves and others and a love of learning and development that will be with them all of their lives.
King’s Oak was last inspected in March 2018 and was judged to be ‘Good’. The inspection letter can be seen here. This role offers the opportunity for the successful candidate to build on firm foundations and to use their exceptional skills to enthuse and inspire others in order to allow the academy to make a significant difference by improving the life chances of all pupils that attend the school.
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