Unlocking Potential Pastoral Assistant (UPPA)

Cirencester Kingshill School, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 1HS

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  14 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 37 hours per week. Term time plus inset days. Monday to Thursday: 8.00am – 4.00pm, Friday: 8.00am – 3.30pm. Includes a 20-minute paid break and 30-minute unpaid lunch.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,992 - £31,586
• Pay scale: Grade G Point 8 - 20 - actual per annum salary £22,306 - £27,108 pro rata

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful applicant will have:

Essential:

• Understanding of safeguarding and pastoral support needs
• Experience working with young people
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• GCSE Grade 4/C or above in English and Maths
• Excellent organisational and IT skills (Microsoft Office)

Desirable:

• Experience in an educational or youth setting
• First Aid at Work qualification (or willingness to train)

What the school offers its staff

• Attractive salary and pension schemes – Teachers Pension Scheme (Teaching Staff) or the Local Government Pension Scheme (Professional Support Staff)
• Family friendly polices
• A range of statutory benefits including sick pay, maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave
• Access to an employee assistance programme for all staff that offers services, including wellbeing, self-referral counselling, information on stress, weight management, smoking cessation
• Access to Occupational Health services
• New staff induction and support programmes
• Long service awards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Additional day of holiday per year ‘Me day.’ Conditions apply.
• Continuous service in other state funded schools will be honoured in relation to sick pay, holiday entitlement, pension rights
• Access to or provision of IT equipment (role specific)
• Access to CLPD and INSET, personalised for individuals through the schools’ Appraisal procedures, including access to role specific academic study and professional qualifications
• Onsite parking facilities and cycle storage
• Staff social, sporting and wellbeing activities throughout the year
• Access to join Blue Light discount card scheme (nominal fee applies)
• The dining room is open for staff to use before school for breakfast and at break and lunch times
• Staff room with facilities, including tea and coffee
• There is an optional staff social fund
• 10% discount on Adult Education at Cirencester College: About Adult Education – Cirencester College

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

Cirencester Kingshill School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment.

All posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@cirencesterkingshill.gloucs.sch.uk

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Recruitment Privacy Notice 2025.pdf - 159 KB (opens in new tab)

Headteachers Welcome - Jul 2025.docx.pdf - 150 KB (opens in new tab)

Recruitment Pack - UPPA- June 2025.pdf - 289 KB (opens in new tab)

About Cirencester Kingshill School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 841 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cirencester Kingshill School website
• Email address: jobs@cirencesterkingshill.gloucs.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01285 651 511
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cirencester-kingshill-school-cirencester

Cirencester Kingshill School, opened in 1976, as a purpose built 11-16 co-educational comprehensive. It is situated on the south east side of Cirencester approximately one mile from the centre, on a spacious site bordering open countryside. The school became an Academy in August 2011.

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