Senior Pastoral Year Leader
Astrea Academy Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 9BE11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
8 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,321.00 - £33,869.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 25 -28, 40 wks per year
Senior Pastoral Year Leader job summary
Are you a passionate and experienced pastoral professional ready to take the next step in your career? Do you thrive on building strong relationships, mentoring others, and making a real difference in the lives of young people? Astrea Academy Sheffield is seeking a dedicated Senior Pastoral Year Leader to lead our pastoral team and champion scholar wellbeing, behaviour, and progress.
About the RoleAs Senior Pastoral Year Leader, you will:
- Lead and mentor a team of Pastoral Year Leaders, modelling high expectations and professional excellence.
- Take co-responsibility for a specific year group, working alongside the Academic Year Leader to ensure every scholar thrives.
- Drive high standards of behaviour, attendance, and academic progress across Key Stages 3 and 4.
- Collaborate with colleagues, families, and external agencies to provide tailored support and interventions.
- Champion a culture of celebration, inclusion, and aspiration for all scholars.
- GCSEs in English and Maths (Grade 4/C or above) and education to A-Level/Level 3 standard.
- Experience working with KS3/4 scholars in a pastoral capacity.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills.
- A calm, confident, and empathetic approach to supporting young people.
- A commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and the values of Astrea Academy Sheffield.
- A supportive, values-driven school culture with a focus on scholar success.
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme.
- Free on-site parking and a collaborative working environment.
This is a permanent, full-time role (37 hours/week, 40 weeks/year), starting in September 2025.
Why Astrea Academy Sheffield?We are committed to providing an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all scholars. Our pastoral team plays a vital role in ensuring every child feels safe, supported, and empowered to succeed. As part of the Astrea Academy Trust, we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, promoting diversity and removing barriers to opportunity.
Interested in Applying?
If you are passionate about education, looking for a fresh opportunity, or simply want to make a positive impact, we would love to hear from you. Take a look at the job description and candidate pack to find out more about the role and how to apply. We also welcome visits, so if you want to discuss this role in greater detail or have a look around the school, please get in touch with chloe.wood@astreasheffield.org
Flexible Interview Dates:
Please note that interview dates are flexible to accommodate your schedule. We also reserve the right to interview candidates before the closing date and to close this position early if we receive a high volume of candidates, so do not delay, apply today.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:
Astrea Academy Sheffield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Sheffield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its scholars and expects all staff, volunteers and members of the Academy community to share this commitment.
We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent and effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, scholars and staff within the Academy. All concerns are passed through the Safeguarding Team in line with our Astrea Academy Sheffield Safeguarding Policy 2023 and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 Guidance.
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 Astrea Academy Sheffield
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1025 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Astrea Academy Sheffield website
At Astrea Academy Sheffield, we address our young people as scholars because we know that every single one of them is capable of outstanding academic achievements. We promote scholarship by offering an all-through curriculum which is rich in powerful knowledge and meticulously planned by subject experts. We know that powerful knowledge is the key that will open powerful doors for our scholars in the future. Therefore, we are relentlessly committed to delivering exceptional lessons in every classroom, every day.
We respect every scholars’ right to access an exceptional education and offer academic, inspiring and broad opportunities for all through both our curriculum and co-curriculum. We teach our young people to be responsible through our thoughtful character education programme and essential habit building work. Our scholars respect everyone in our academy’s community and grow their responsibility, knowing that they are the leaders of tomorrow.
We are tenacious in our commitment to do the very best for the young people in our care and this tenacity is mirrored in the way that our scholars work on their academic and character education every day.
We foster curiosity in our young people by providing them with a rounded education which opens doors to new opportunities, ideas and experiences. Our classrooms are filled with the awe and wonder that is comes from the joy of learning.
If you are interested in coming to see more of what we do, then please email info@astreasheffield.org to arrange a visit.
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