Pastoral Support Worker
Orion Academy, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 6DQ17 days remaining to apply
Closing date
11 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
23 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,144.00 - £28,304.00 Annually (Actual)
Pastoral Support Worker job summary
The role of a Pastoral Support Worker at Orion Academy involves setting appropriate boundaries for children, supporting with their education, wellbeing and pastoral care, and liaising with families to get the best possible outcomes. Pastoral Support Workers work across the whole school, including supporting pupils with complex health and medical needs as well as those who may demonstrate challenging behaviour. You will have a good understanding of complex barriers to learning, and will demonstrate a resilient and instinctive approach in meeting our pupils’ needs. You will support colleagues within the class environment as well as contributing to specific interventions designed to encourage engagement with learning and development of social and independence skills.
Students are taught through a differentiated and bespoke curriculum designed to enhance academic and social development, with a strong emphasis on independence skills. The curriculum delivers a thematic, cyclical approach to provide a meaningful and interesting context for the development of basic skills, knowledge and understanding while providing the relevant National Curriculum requirements. Classes are grouped into stage, not age, allowing for innovative and creative approaches to teaching and learning and are taught predominantly by one class teacher, supported by additional class adults.
Our unique features include:
A curriculum model which is designed around our students
Individual learning pathways which teach the way our students learn and moves away from the “one size fits all” approach
A flexible, innovative and student-centred approach, which supports not only excellent teaching and learning, but also the emotional and mental wellbeing of students and their individual needs
An ethos of Restorative Approaches, mutual respect, and social responsibility which creates an inclusive and nurturing community
The Gallery Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment with The Gallery Trust is subject to verification of ID and qualifications, satisfactory evidence of the right to work in the UK, health clearance, NCTL and Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check. The Gallery Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from candidates from all ethnic and community backgrounds.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Gallery Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any offer of employment with The Gallery Trust is subject to verification of ID and qualifications, satisfactory evidence of the right to work in the UK, health clearance, and Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check. The Gallery Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from candidates from all ethnic and community backgrounds.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
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View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Orion Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 10 to 18
- School size
- 74 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 10 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Orion Academy website
Orion Academy currently offers places to 94 students, and the roll of the school will rise steadily over the next three years to cater for 108 students, aged from 10 to 18 years. Students attend from throughout the county, and transfer from our SEND feeder school, Northern House Academy, and from mainstream primary and secondary schools. All students who attend Orion Academy have an Education, Health and Care Plan, which describes their special needs and drives their educational provision.
Students are taught through a differentiated and bespoke curriculum designed to enhance their personal and social development and academic achievement. We have a strong intent to ensure our students leave with the personal characteristics to thrive in their communities. Classes are taught in stages, not necessarily age, allowing innovation and creative approaches to teaching and learning. The Academy provides support for our students with social and emotional needs through our Academy Community Learning Team, which consists of youth workers, therapeutic and pastoral workers.
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