Pastoral Support Officer

Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  9 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 April 2025

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: £25,904.00 Annually (Actual) FTE salary £30,559 - £33,366 37 hrs per week term time only

Pastoral Support Officer job summary

Main Duties

Student Support

• To be a ‘first point of contact’ for students (and parents/carers) and respond quickly and effectively to concerns raised and particularly to distressed individuals or groups.
• Provide first-line support, advice, encouragement and challenge to promote resilience, academic success and help remove barriers to personal fulfilment & learning.
• To support school Equality and Diversity and Anti-Bullying Policies by helping to challenge negative stereotypes, promote courtesy and open-mindedness and increase resilience and mutual respect.
• To assist in investigations around breaches of school rules and behavioural expectations (statement taking) and support decisions effectively.
• To support the mental health needs of students in the year group, liaising with the counselling and Learning Support team.

Support the Head of Year and Senior Staff by:

• Assisting with monitoring and evaluating student performance and behaviour including collating data and sending memos in particular around vulnerable students (e.g. pupil premium) and providing appropriate feedback.
• On occasions, meeting with parents/carers as a substitute tutor at events such as Academic Review Day and Parents’ Evenings (by negotiation).
• Helping to monitor student attendance, time-keeping and behaviour, to undertake register checks and truancy sweeps and to follow up concerns with staff and parents/carers.
• Analysing, reporting and recording confidential and case-relevant information.
• Working closely with Pastoral Leaders, school counsellor(s), nurses and external agencies including, health, welfare and other professional teams.
• Attending and contributing to key support meetings, e.g. Fast Forward, Tutor Team Meetings, Annual Reviews, Student Council and EHA/TAF/TAC processes and follow up on actions where required. This may include the provision of interim notes.
• Facilitating pastoral interventions, including mentoring and occasional extra-curricular activities.
• Actively assisting and being involved with the organisation of transition arrangements.
• Assisting in the organisation and running of key year activities e.g. Off Timetable events
• Helping to monitor students on report.
• Being a positive role model and visible presence in the school and encouraging a calm, purposeful learning environment.
• Working with and substituting for other site-based PSOs to support at busy times, for short term absence and covering four day working.
• Organising and running focus group meetings with the Head of Year.
• Encouraging ‘hard to reach’ families to engage in school events e.g. attending Parents’ Evenings, making appointments for them if required
• Following appropriate training and where considered reasonable, undertaking home visits.
• Running groups to support the Young Carers in the year group

Administrative Support

• Undertaking administrative tasks such as word-processing, minute taking, emailing and completing referrals on behalf of the Head of Year and Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Making telephone calls to parents/carers, agencies and other bodies.
• Setting up and preparing meetings - checking availability, booking facilities and circulating relevant documentation for the year team.
• Assisting Head of Year with the Assembly timetable and Learning for Life, e.g. booking speakers, accommodation and resources as required
• Having an overview of each year group’s annual calendar and prompting the Head of Year ahead of events

Whole School Support

• Working collaboratively with Central Office administrative staff to provide a seamless service for students and year teams
• Championing school standards in respect of behaviour, work ethic, dress, presentation and manners
• Setting a good example in terms of personal appearance, attitude, resilience and problem resolution

Please use the Supporting Statement section of the Application form to demonstrate how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Further details and a Person Specification are included in the attached Job Details.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Applying for the job

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About Lord Williams's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2276 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lord Williams's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-williams-s-school

Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.

We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.

We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.

The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.

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