Senior Pastoral Manager

The Hathershaw College, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 3EP

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  26 June 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: £29,148.00 - £31,591.00 Annually (Actual) Point 23-25 (£29,148 - £31,591 actual salary)

Senior Pastoral Manager job summary

Senior Pastoral Manager

Full time (term time only + 5 days), permanent

36 hours 40 minutes per week (8.00am - 3.50pm) including a ½ hour lunch

Commencing from 1st September 2025

Salary: Point 23-25 (£29,148 - £31,591 actual salary)

About the role:

We are seeking to appoint a newly created position of senior pastoral manager who will work with targeted cohorts of children to ensure that they are better able to self-regulate, improve their behaviour and engage more fully in their learning. The successful candidate will be experienced and highly motivated to make a difference to the lives of children and contribute significantly to our inclusion strategy. Please take time to read the job description and person specification to fully understand the role. Whilst the successful candidate will be managed directly by a member of the senior team, there is scope to make this role your own.

Hathershaw College

The Hathershaw College is a very successful and oversubscribed 11-16 Academy within the Pinnacle Learning Trust. We are a good school with a group of very talented teachers and staff who set high standards and expectations for our children. We have a strong training and professional development programme (supported by The Pinnacle Learning Trust Research School), which offers opportunities to develop your skills.

We are inclusive and celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of everyone within the College. We care about our young people, with our first priority always being to make sure they are happy and safe so that they are able to learn.

Our Ofsted report recognises the school as a “happy place to learn”, and that pupils enjoy coming to school and “behave sensibly around the school and in lessons. They are respectful to other pupils, staff and visitors”. It also acknowledges the work we have done to support staff wellbeing, stating: “Staff value the steps that leaders have taken to ease their workload and support their well-being.” In our annual staff survey, colleagues valued the communication from leaders, in particular how often leaders consult with staff before making decisions that affect them, where the positive response rate was 11% above national benchmark.

Our colleagues underpin our mission and values, sharing high expectations and collaborative opportunities through supportive networks. We care about each other and the real difference we can make to students’ futures, and we want to recruit staff who share our vision.

We are well located with good public transport links and excellent access to the motorway network.

Proud member of The Pinnacle Learning Trust

We are a locally focused, cross-phase Trust, with a rigorous culture of high aspirations and strong academic performance that will improve the life chances of our young people through an understanding of the communities we serve. Our academies provide high quality inclusive education and an ethos whereby our children and young people learn by example and grow morally and socially.

Our vision for our workforce is one in which diverse, dedicated, skilled and high-performing staff are operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment; enabling everyone to feel valued, respected and encouraged in order to contribute their best to support us in achieving our mission.

Our Trust invests in each member of staff, offering them professional development opportunities, as well as the opportunity to contribute to the development of others via our Research School. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging.

We are delighted to be recognised by Edurio for a Trust Value Award in 2024, and have been shortlisted for the 2025 MAT Excellence Award for Wellbeing Trust of the Year. We offer various health and wellbeing benefits, including an Employee Assistance programme offering counselling, GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, etc.

Read our ‘Join the Pinnacle Learning Trust’ booklet to discover what our trust can offer you.

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Advert Closing Date: 12 noon Friday 11th July

Interviews: Tuesday 15th July

Commitment to Safeguarding

Hathershaw College is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment checks. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Hathershaw College is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups and ethnic minorities.

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About The Hathershaw College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1047 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Hathershaw College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-hathershaw-college

The Hathershaw College is a very successful and oversubscribed 11-16 Academy within the Pinnacle Learning Trust, which consists of ourselves, Oldham Sixth Form College and Werneth Primary School. We are also well located with good public transport links and excellent access to the motorway network.

Ofsted inspected the school in November/December 2021 and we have retained our good status. I would advise you to read the excellent report before applying.

“Pupils behave sensibly around the school and in lessons. They are respectful to other pupils, staff and visitors.”

“Staff value the steps that leaders have taken to ease their workload and support their well-being.”

Source: Ofsted report 2021

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