Senior Pastoral Leader
Chipping Norton School, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DY14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 February 2025
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
- £33,366.00 - £36,124.00 Annually (FTE)
Senior Pastoral Leader job summary
In recent years CNS has enjoyed significant success and sustained improvements
that in part related to the quality of pastoral care that has thrived at this school for
many years. In recent years, through the extension and strengthening of pastoral
care, learning support, and teaching and learning, at CNS. In order to build on those
successes and improvements, we now wish to appoint a new pastoral leader.
Our new colleague must be skilled at making students feel engaged and motivated,
and will play an important role in contributing to improving student outcomes. Our
senior pastoral leaders work collaboratively with a dedicated, and innovative team,
as well as our learning support colleagues, teachers and external agencies. Led by
either a non-teaching Head of Key Stage 3 or a traditional Head of Key Stage Four,
the successful applicant will join a team of three senior pastoral leaders to take care
of two year groups of 175 students.
We expect our senior pastoral leaders to be team players and innovative problem
solvers and to be realistic and ambitious for our children. The title and grading
reflects our wish to employ individuals who can think outside the box and adapt
support to meet the ever changing needs of our students.
The working hours of this term time role can be flexible with either full time or part
time hours or a job share (working weeks for this post are 40 weeks per year). We
are open to hearing from candidates as to what they would be interested in working.
We welcome all applications and if you would like to have a confidential conversation
with the Deputy Headteacher prior to application, please contact Natalie Hancock
(nhancock@chippingnortonschool.org) or telephone 01608 544998.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the
closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this
instance.
This post includes regulated activity relevant to children.
What skills / experience are required
We are seeking a collaborative, dynamic and innovative colleague, who:
Has a passion to support students in a pastoral context;
Has endless patience, and boundless energy – even when children are not
their best self;
Enjoys being a prominent figure in children’s lives.
What we can offer
A committed and largely established team that is part of this vibrant and
dedicated rural comprehensive school.
A school that is widely known for calm classrooms and corridors, the passion
and skill of its support staff, and the constantly improving facilities on offer.
Students who are kind, polite and keen to succeed, and respond
enthusiastically to well-planned and carefully delivered lessons.
Parents and carers who are engaged, supportive and encouraging.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At
the River Learning Trust (RLT) we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils,
trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in the
RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our
commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is Everyone Achieving, Everyone Belonging.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore
as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each
other, underpinned by our principles around High-TEMPO teaching, and a commitment
to calm, kind and compassionate classrooms.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing
professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and
access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more
information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access,
please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
The River Learning Trust and Chipping Norton School are committed to safeguarding
and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is
required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their
recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It
is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in
regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following
link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to
date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments
to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Chipping Norton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1002 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Chipping Norton School website
School location
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