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Permanent Pastoral Manager
Higham Lane School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0BJ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
1 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full-time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £25,855 - £28,719
What skills and experience we're looking for
Higham Lane School, part of the Central England Academy Trust is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Permanent Pastoral Manager to start September 2025.
Applications are invited from suitably-qualified and enthusiastic individuals to join our pastoral team. The successful candidate will contribute to overall good order within the school, including behaviour management, safeguarding, attendance, promoting the well-being and general progress and achievement of students.
What the school offers its staff
At Higham Lane, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
- excellent continuous professional development
- reduced workload
- behaviour for learning that empowers teachers to teach and students to learn
- a range of imaginative approaches to ensure staff wellbeing
- free, onsite parking
- subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- a Gym Membership Scheme
- a Cycle to Work Scheme
- free lunch for duty staff
- an Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
- an Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials
Further details about the role
General Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitor and take appropriate action in relation to the behaviour and progress of students in the year groups.
- Communicate, support and liaise with parents/carers and outside agencies, as appropriate.
- Monitor behaviour and academic achievement within the year groups and implement strategies for improvement.
- Support teachers in the application of the School’s Praise and Behaviour Policy.
- In liaison with other staff, undertake further investigations into behaviour incidents as appropriate.
- Take appropriate action and provide support/advice/guidance to students (whether referred or for whom there is a developing pattern of underachievement or poor behaviour).
- Collate and present relevant information to the Governors’ Behaviour Panels
- Promote and enforce the uniform regulations and monitoring that they are being applied by staff and adhered to by students.
- Implement the School’s rewards and consequences system within the year groups.
- Prepare and deliver year group assemblies.
- Develop and prepare support plans, 1:1 mentoring arrangements and assist with the writing of Early Helps.
- Manage the supervision of students excluded from or not working to the normal timetable.
- Co-ordinate the communication strategy (on pastoral matters) within the year teams.
- Challenge and motivate students and promote and reinforce self-esteem
How to apply
Please apply by clickinghttps://centralenglandacademytrust.face-ed.co.uk/vacancies
Alternatively, please visit our school website (www.highamlaneschool.co.uk) and click on ‘Job Vacancies’. The deadline is 9am on Thursday 1st May 2025. If you would like to have a chat about this post or arrange an informal visit to see our school, please contact Adam Williams, Associate Deputy Headteacher, on 024 7638 8123.
Dates:
Selection activities and interviews for shortlisted candidates are likely to be on Friday 9th May 2025. Please note that the school reserves the right to close the application process early if we identify suitable candidates. To avoid disappointment, please submit your application as soon as possible.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will also be taken through the School's vetting procedure. Higham Lane School is also strongly committed to protecting personal data. Our Privacy Notice, which can be found under the GDPR section on the School website, describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Higham Lane School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1425 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Higham Lane School website
- Email address
- jobs@highamlaneschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476388123
Part of the Central England Academy Trust, Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College is a large, 11-18 comprehensive academy, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections. The school and sixth form college forms part of the CEAT trust and schools within our small trust work closely together bringing many benefits to both students and staff.
We offer an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum where we value equally achievement in all its forms: artistic, academic, social, cultural, sporting and intellectual. All students achieve well at Higham Lane School, and in 2023 our Progress 8 figure was 0.56 which is testament to how well students, teachers and parents/carers work together effectively. We are committed to ensuring that an ambitious curriculum, combined with evidence-informed teaching and learning, and excellent behaviour from students make Higham Lane School a thriving environment for all that work and study here. Our Progress 8 figure for 2023 puts us in the top 6% of state-funded mainstream schools for progress, which we are delighted with, and we are committed to building upon this fantastic achievement for our students.
We were extremely pleased to have been rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in May 2019, one of only a small number of schools in England to have achieved the highest rating that year. We are also delighted that we continue to achieve impressive A level results in our high-performing Sixth Form with an average grade of B- placing the school within the top 4 mainstream Sixth Form schools in Warwickshire and the highest-performing in North Warwickshire, which again shows how students, staff and parents/carers work together effectively. In July 2021, we were granted World Class Schools status, one of a very small number of schools to achieve this.
We are also very excited to be opening a new free school, Higham Lane North Academy, in September 2025. Just a mile away from Higham Lane School, there will be exciting opportunities for the two secondary schools, as part of the wider trust, to work together with many mutual benefits for both students and staff.
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to ‘Work Hard, Be Kind and Take Responsibility within the overall aim to “Be the best you can be!”
Arranging a visit to Higham Lane School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@highamlaneschool.co.uk.
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