Pastoral Manager
| Posting date: | 23 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 June 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B33 9UF |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | de562f82-9003-43da-9729-24b6396e12fe |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
About this Role
Are you an inspirational and determined individual looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about pastoral care and helping pupils become responsible young adults? Are you determined that all students within your care will reach their full potential? Do you have a clear understanding of the importance of pupil safeguarding?
We are looking to recruit a Pastoral Manager to:
- Establish and maintain an ethos of safety, resilience, and cohesion through taking assemblies and leading where necessary on competitions, rewards, SMSC and PSHE (including character days).
- Provide support and advice to students in line with promoting their social care and personal development with respect to learning and health and safety.
- Respond to and take steps to resolve relationship issues between students.
- Provide general student support
- Monitor attendance, behaviour, standards, and detentions
- Follow up attendance matters, including for agreed target students and contact or meet with parents.
- Collect and collate accounts relating to incidents, following up directly when appropriate
- Issue, collect and follow up target cards for identified students
- Contribute to pastoral support plans.
- Be aware of and comply with policies relating to child protection and all aspects of safeguarding students.
- Liaise with external agencies on behalf of the team
You Will
- Have GCSE English and maths at Grade C or above
- Have experience of working in a secondary schoo;
- Have experience of Pastoral Leadership
- Have experience of using data to assess and monitor student performance
- Have the ability to use an effective range of strategies to change pupil’s behaviour.
- Have experience of using good communication and interpersonal skills
- Have the ability to remain positive under pressure and meet competing deadlines.
What the school offers its staff
In return, we will offer you:
- A collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment.
- An opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as [the CIPD or Coaching via our Apprenticeship Levy-amend examples based on roles].
- Access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance process.
-A wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views.
- Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called “My Possible Self”.
- Access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly.
- Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users.
- Opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support.
- Onsite parking at all schools.
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.
About this Role
Are you an inspirational and determined individual looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about pastoral care and helping pupils become responsible young adults? Are you determined that all students within your care will reach their full potential? Do you have a clear understanding of the importance of pupil safeguarding?
We are looking to recruit a Pastoral Manager to:
- Establish and maintain an ethos of safety, resilience, and cohesion through taking assemblies and leading where necessary on competitions, rewards, SMSC and PSHE (including character days).
- Provide support and advice to students in line with promoting their social care and personal development with respect to learning and health and safety.
- Respond to and take steps to resolve relationship issues between students.
- Provide general student support
- Monitor attendance, behaviour, standards, and detentions
- Follow up attendance matters, including for agreed target students and contact or meet with parents.
- Collect and collate accounts relating to incidents, following up directly when appropriate
- Issue, collect and follow up target cards for identified students
- Contribute to pastoral support plans.
- Be aware of and comply with policies relating to child protection and all aspects of safeguarding students.
- Liaise with external agencies on behalf of the team
You Will
- Have GCSE English and maths at Grade C or above
- Have experience of working in a secondary schoo;
- Have experience of Pastoral Leadership
- Have experience of using data to assess and monitor student performance
- Have the ability to use an effective range of strategies to change pupil’s behaviour.
- Have experience of using good communication and interpersonal skills
- Have the ability to remain positive under pressure and meet competing deadlines.
What the school offers its staff
In return, we will offer you:
- A collaborative and inclusive culture, where team members will upskill you and give you regular opportunities to learn from each other in a safe and collaborative environment.
- An opportunity to undertake structured CPD via access to the National College online CPD platform and/or apprenticeships such as [the CIPD or Coaching via our Apprenticeship Levy-amend examples based on roles].
- Access to Career Pathways and Pledge to help you plan for and make your goals a reality via our Professional Growth and Performance process.
-A wellbeing culture, with paid and unpaid time off to support life events via our Life Leave Policy, access to a Wellbeing Champion and the opportunity to participate in our annual staff wellbeing survey with Edurio, so we know and can respond to views.
- Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which includes confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice and a lifestyle app called “My Possible Self”.
- Access to a suite of supportive policies, such as Life Leave, Wellbeing, Career Break and Family Friendly.
- Access to a generous pension scheme known as the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Access to a comprehensive employee rewards package including Long Service Awards, Employee Referral Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and contribution to glasses and eye-sight tests for eligible display screen users.
- Opportunity to be part of key Trust-wide collaborative groups such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI working group) and Wellbeing working groups, including menopause support and neurodiversity support.
- Onsite parking at all schools.
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.