Pastoral Support Officer

The Blue Coat CofE School, Oldham, Lancashire, OL1 3SQ

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  24 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  11 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 36 hours 40 minutes, Term Time Only plus 5 days
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade 4, SCP 12-17

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a dedicated and professional individual to promote efficient and effective communication between parents, staff and students and pastoral care for our students. The post holder will be part of the experienced Pastoral team contributing to promoting attendance and will support Directors of Learning and the Senior Leadership Team with pastoral concerns.

You must be diligent, pro-active, and an excellent communicator and team player with the ability to build and maintain positive relations with both young people and adults in an effective and appropriate manner.

We are looking for a candidate who:

• Has experience of working with young people
• Has experience of administration in an office environment
• Has empathy with and respect for young people
• Has professional resilience and integrity and the ability to handle confidential issues and material sensitively and appropriately
• Is approachable and has the ability to inspire respect and confidence
• Has the ability to work under pressure, self-motivate, plan, organise and prioritise effectively

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

• Opportunities for professional development in a growing Trust
• A strong school community that places children, families and staff at the heart of everything we do.
• A supportive team who will work with and alongside you to achieve the very best
• LGPS career average pension scheme including life insurance and dependent's pension
• Central Oldham location close to good transport networks

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.

Working for The Blue Coat School means that you would be part of the Cranmer Education Trust, a successful, growing Trust which prides itself on looking after its people, offering a high level of support and access to expertise. This is an excellent time to join the team, as we develop collaborative structures and systems to enhance and support our growing family of schools.

There are 10 schools in our Trust, both primary and secondary schools, across Oldham and Rochdale. The trust also incorporates a teacher training school and the East Manchester Teaching Hub, which support the training and development of new and existing teachers across the North West of England.

For further details please visit:

https://careers.cranmereducationtrust.com/

Commitment to safeguarding

The Blue Coat School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

For further information please refer to:

The Cranmer Education Trust’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy:
Trust Policies | Cranmer Education Trust

Applying for the job

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About The Blue Coat CofE School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1669 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Blue Coat CofE School website
• Email address: hr@blue-coat.org
• Phone number: 0161 624 1484
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-blue-coat-cofe-school

We are very proud of our school, which attracts students from across Greater Manchester and beyond. It first opened in 1834. Our founder, Thomas Henshaw, was a committed Anglican who left a bequest to fund a school which would provide education for the orphaned boys of the parish.

From these humble beginnings, the Blue Coat School has become one of the biggest and most successful schools in the country. The school has a national reputation for high quality teaching and learning, pastoral care, consistently excellent examination results and outstanding progress. Our most recent OFSTED inspection in 2011/2 judged the school to be outstanding in every category. As a result, Blue Coat has been designated a National Teaching School which means that we work with schools nationally and locally to develop the very best educational provision. Blue Coat is grounded in tradition and history, and is evolving and forward looking. Our historic campus has been restored and developed extensively; our students enjoy picnic lunches in front of a Grade II listed building but their learning takes place in superb 21st century classrooms, laboratories and studios.

Blue Coat is dedicated to serving young people, to enable them to become everything they can be and everything that they are meant to be. We are a Church of England school that welcomes members of other Christian denominations, and of other faiths.

Our Anglican beliefs, values and worship are at the core of our life together in school.

Arranging a visit to The Blue Coat CofE School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@blue-coat.org.

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