Peripatetic Pastoral Support Manager

Stansfield Academy, Exeter, Devon, EX2 7LB

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  16 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 37 hrs per week, term time only.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £40,871 - £44,791
• Actual salary: £34,851 - £38,194
• Pay scale: NJC28 - NJC32

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an exceptional Peripatetic Pastoral Support Manager to provide strategic safeguarding leadership and pastoral support across our Devon Academies.

This is a senior leadership role at the heart of our commitment to ensuring every pupil feels safe, valued and supported to succeed. Working collaboratively with pupils, families, staff and external agencies, you will provide expert leadership in safeguarding, pastoral care, attendance and engagement. You will coordinate multi-agency support, advocate for vulnerable young people, and help remove barriers to learning, enabling pupils to achieve positive educational, social and emotional outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced safeguarding practitioner and leader who thrives in a dynamic environment, can confidently manage complex cases, and is dedicated to making a lasting difference to the lives of children and families. The successful candidate will be able to build strong relationships, influence practice across teams and agencies, and contribute to the continued development of outstanding safeguarding and pastoral provision across the Trust.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.

What the school offers its staff

Health & Wellbeing

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

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.

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Pastoral Support Manager (DSL) JD and Person Spec (3).pdf - 330 KB (opens in new tab)

About Stansfield Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 16
• School size: 60 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Stansfield Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@waveedu.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/stansfield-academy

Stansfield Academy is an Alternative Provision Academy providing full time education for children from 4-16 years of age. We cover Central Devon including Exeter, East Devon and Mid Devon and work closely with Devon County Council to ensure a swift transition both into and out of the Academy to minimise the impact of any transition on the learning of those young people.

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