SRB SEMH Pastoral Lead

Acle Academy, Norwich, Norfolk, NR13 3ER

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  19 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 November 2026

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: £33,826.00 - £35,525.00 Annually (Actual)

SRB SEMH Pastoral Lead job summary

Acle Academy is a thriving secondary school for 11-16-year-olds located in the heart of the Broadland area, only 12 miles from the centre of Norwich. We strive to create well-rounded, responsible individuals who seize opportunities, discover their passions, and love to learn throughout life. Acle Academy has a strong academic record and a reputation for providing high-quality pastoral care.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to provide crucial operational management and support to the SRB Lead Teacher. The successful candidate will take responsibility for coordinating, planning, and delivering high-impact SEMH interventions and core support programmes, overseeing behaviour management strategies, and supporting Individual Intervention Plans. You will help pupils re-engage with education in a mainstream setting or transition smoothly to an appropriate provision, while line-managing SRB teaching assistants and building strong, trusted partnerships with parents and carers.

Are you:

• enthusiastic about planning and delivering targeted interventions to support pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs?
• a dedicated and resilient practitioner who models inclusive practice, consistently raises expectations, and creates a safe, nurturing environment where barriers to learning are overcome?
• an excellent communicator skilled at supporting pupil assessment, induction, and transition, while acting as a trusted liaison for parents, carers, and external agencies?

Working alongside the Lead Teacher and host school leadership team, the post holder will play a pivotal operational role in deputising as required, supervising and supporting teaching assistants, and maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding and child welfare.

Through partnership to excellence, The Wensum Trust is committed to offering excellent professional opportunities and learning opportunities for its staff.

The Wensum Trust is committed to the protection and safety of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references, an appropriate Enhanced DBS check and successful completion of a six-month probationary period.

The Wensum Trust warmly welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

For further information on this vacancy and our school, please contact Ruth Sutton on info@acle.norfolk.sch.uk

Safer Recruitment

The Wensum Trust is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people, we expect all trustees, staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Wensum Trust is exempt from the Rehabilitations of Offenders Act 1974 and all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as 'spent' must be declared. All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Criminal Record Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service, along with other relevant employment checks, including overseas criminal background checks.

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.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Acle Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 709 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Acle Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/acle-academy

Acle Academy is a thriving secondary school for 11-16 year olds, located in the heart of the Norfolk Broads and serving 500 children and their families. We strive to create well-rounded, responsible individuals who seize opportunities, discover their passions and love to learn throughout life. Acle Academy has a strong academic reputation.

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