Pastoral Support Officer

The Sydney Russell School, Dagenham, Essex, RM9 5QT

31 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  5 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 January 2026

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: £38,916.00 - £39,954.00 Annually (Actual) Scale SO1 point 23-25

Pastoral Support Officer job summary

POSITION: Pastoral Support Officer (PSO)

CONTRACT HOURS: 7.30am - 4.30pm (term time) + up to one week preparation/support during summer holidays

SCALE: SO1 point 23-25 (£38,916-£39,954)

CLOSING DATE: Thursday 5th March 2026. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 10th March 2026.

Purpose of Job:

• To assist the Head of Year 7 (HoY) in the day-to-day leadership and management of the students in the year group.
• To working with the Head of Year, Inclusion Teams, and Senior Leadership to implement pastoral strategies and support cover for internal provisions as required.
• To provide crucial student welfare by offering emotional, social, and academic guidance.
• To act as a liaison between students, parents, and teachers.
• To implement strategies to remove barriers to learning, focusing on attendance, behaviour, and well-being, ensuring students feel safe, included, and can reach their potential.
• To promote and role model the school’s Inclusion Pledge - advocating for all students, promoting acceptance, and supporting student voice activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Attendance & Punctuality: Monitoring and addressing attendance issues and promoting high standards by:

• ensuring the school’s attendance policy is implemented thoroughly and consistently
• leading on pro-active initiatives to promote good attendance and punctuality
• overseeing and managing the menu of support students are receiving and monitoring the impact of this.
• Collaborating with attendance leads across the school to share best practice.

Manage the rewards system for the year group: leading assemblies and supporting the successful implementation of year group reward initiatives.

Behaviour Management:

• Support the Head of Year in managing behaviour, including maintaining reports and implementing proactive strategies to promote positive conduct.
• Support the Head of Year with investigations into incidents, working closely with the LSC (Learning Support centre). This will include gathering evidence from a variety of sources such as statements from students and checking CCTV.
• Facilitate mediations between students where appropriate.

Direct Student Support:

• Identify students who may require additional support, including vulnerable students, and make referrals to appropriate internal and external support services where required.
• Mentoring individuals and small groups, offering emotional and practical help, running check-ins, and supporting transitions between lessons where needed.
• Supporting with the supervision of students during break times
• Being highly visible to ensure high expectations of students are upheld and provide support to staff as needed.

Liaison & Communication:

• Serving as a link between students, parents, and school staff, responding to concerns and providing feedback, including making phone calls home to parents, leading meetings and conducting home visits as required.
• Proactive parent contact, regarding students' attendance, behaviour patterns and early concerns (with support and guidance from the HoY).
• Support the Pastoral Lead with transition work, including outreach to key feeder primary schools to build strong relationships and share information on Year 6 students allocated to the school for entry into Year 7.
• Support with the implementation of the school’s transition arrangements, including interviews, transition days, Right Start programme.

Administration and data:

• Supporting the admin needs of the year group.
• With support from HOY, review data (behaviour, attendance, punctuality and rewards) to put in place early intervention.

Deputise for the Head of Year as required.

Undertaking any other responsibilities which may be reasonably directed by Senior Leaders

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.

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

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About The Sydney Russell School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 18
• Education phase: All through school
• School size: 2640 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Sydney Russell School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-sydney-russell-school-dagenham

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