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Teaching Fellow (Pastoral Lead)
Mercia School, Sheffield, S7 2DY26 days remaining to apply
Job start date
4 November 2025
Closing date
30 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 November 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
- Grade 7 £38,220 to £41,771
Teaching Fellow (Pastoral Lead) job summary
Salary (FTE) Grade 7 £38,220 to £41,771
Actual salary £32,874 to £35,928 (with under five years' service)
Contract term 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (negotiable), permanent
Start date As soon as possible
Closing date Midnight Sunday 30 November 2025
Mercia Learning Trust
Mercia Learning Trust is a successful partnership of four primary and three secondary schools located in the south-west of Sheffield. Established in 2012, with one secondary school, our trust has grown to serving over 5000 pupils, with 650 staff.
Why do we exist?
· To empower everyone in our communities, especially the most disadvantaged, to succeed.
How do we behave?
· We are kind - showing care and supporting each other.
· We have integrity - doing the right thing and always putting children first.
· We work with diligence - overcoming obstacles and having no excuses.
What do we do?
· We run schools that focus on academic excellence, cultural capital and the development of character.
How will we succeed?
· A culture of excellence – high standards shaped by clarity, not control.
· Academic focus – empowering all children through an exceptional curriculum.
· Purposeful collaboration – relationships built on trust, reducing sub-optimisation and driving collective success.
Our staff are a crucial part of our trust, just like our pupils. We are devoted to recruiting, training, retaining and taking good care of our highly skilled and dedicated team.
Mercia School
Mercia School (11-18) opened in 2018 in a brand-new building. Leaders and governors have an ambitious vision for the school and are determined that all pupils, irrespective of background will thrive and achieve well. The school has secured a strong reputation for educational excellence and during the last three years, has been the most over-subscribed school in the city.
Mercia School has a strong commitment to reduce workload for teachers. Within the longer day and ten training days, staff have dedicated time to complete all essential tasks and professional development. Everything is designed to ensure teachers have the time and energy to teach, and leave school at the end of the day without further work to undertake.
In February 2023, Ofsted inspected the school and graded all aspects of provision, and its overall effectiveness, to be ‘Outstanding’. Mercia School published exceptional GCSE results in the summer of 2023, achieving the highest Progress 8 score for disadvantaged pupils, this high-level of performance was repeated in 2024.
In September 2023, Mercia Collegiate Sixth Form opened. As the school continues to grow, it is crucial that we sustain our culture and effectiveness, and this role is central to our continued success.
The role
The role of the Teaching Fellow is to support the ethos of high expectations across the school. Specifically, working with pupils who require additional support, so their academic, emotional, physical and social needs are met. This may include the use of
appropriate intervention and liaising with external professionals. This role is well suited to an experienced pastoral leader who believes in high expectations and is driven by supporting pupils to achieve exceptionally well in their academic studies. We welcome applications from existing Heads of Year or equivalent roles.
The Teaching Fellow has a visible presence in all areas of the school and will assist with any issues related to the well-being of the pupils. They will work to ensure pupils are in 100% of their subject lessons. Pupils are supported superbly in our longer school day, but they do not miss lessons for interventions or informal pastoral support. The successful candidate will be an advocate for this approach.
This is also a unique opportunity to join one of the best schools in the country and make a difference to the life chances of its pupils.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Mercia School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1046 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mercia School website
At Mercia School we offer an education that is traditional and academically rigorous.
It is our belief that all pupils, whatever their background, have a right to a culturally rich education.
We strive to ensure all pupils can access the very best universities in the land, or a valuable alternative.
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