Senior Pastoral Lead - Achieve, Behaviour & Culture
| Posting date: | 22 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 December 2025 |
| Location: | Prescot, Merseyside, L35 2XG |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d3711bc1-3ce7-47c0-b517-6b02b0f1bff1 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
This is an exciting position for a candidate who has a passion to transform lives and change society through education. A key role within our mission to ensure we are inclusive and ensure all pupils can flourish and succeed at St Edmund Arrowsmith.
We are looking to welcome a colleague who can strengthen our team and believes that our school can serve every child in the community. The right candidate for this role will be passionate about education and supporting all pupils in our school and relentless in the pursuit of equality and justice for all. They will have excellent communication skills and the willingness to use those skills to ensure that every child has the chance to succeed, understanding that some pupils require further support and guidance to enable them to flourish.
Our purpose is to be “School of Choice for the Community” enabling our pupils to ‘live life in all it’s fullness’.
Purpose of Role
Provide leadership to and set high expectations for the students of St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy in all pastoral matters. Leading all Heads of Year and with responsibility for a specific year cohort. This post supports the progress, mental health, wellbeing (pastoral care) and behaviour management of students at St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy. This position is both proactive and reactive in nature, ensuring the needs of our pupils are met, and that they are known and understood as individuals –our pupils feel known and that they belong so that they can thrive.
Working with the Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher Inclusion and in collaboration with other members of staff, to provide support and intervention strategies in order to meet the pastoral needs of the students at St Edmund Arrowsmith in a specific cohort.
To be responsible for the coordination of all pastoral activity for the cohort, ensuring that staff and managers are aware of issues of concern or causes for celebration.
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer For All Staff
We recognise that employee wellbeing and work-life balance are essential to thriving in the workplace. The Trust places a high value on providing a range of benefits for all colleagues, beyond the essentials of receiving professional recognition, networking and CPD, commensurate financial reward and job satisfaction.
Please take a look at our website and social media channels to get a real sense of the support that we provide to all our employees, including our full staff benefits package:
www.pfcmat.org/Staff-Benefits- Package/
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.
The Role
This is an exciting position for a candidate who has a passion to transform lives and change society through education. A key role within our mission to ensure we are inclusive and ensure all pupils can flourish and succeed at St Edmund Arrowsmith.
We are looking to welcome a colleague who can strengthen our team and believes that our school can serve every child in the community. The right candidate for this role will be passionate about education and supporting all pupils in our school and relentless in the pursuit of equality and justice for all. They will have excellent communication skills and the willingness to use those skills to ensure that every child has the chance to succeed, understanding that some pupils require further support and guidance to enable them to flourish.
Our purpose is to be “School of Choice for the Community” enabling our pupils to ‘live life in all it’s fullness’.
Purpose of Role
Provide leadership to and set high expectations for the students of St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy in all pastoral matters. Leading all Heads of Year and with responsibility for a specific year cohort. This post supports the progress, mental health, wellbeing (pastoral care) and behaviour management of students at St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy. This position is both proactive and reactive in nature, ensuring the needs of our pupils are met, and that they are known and understood as individuals –our pupils feel known and that they belong so that they can thrive.
Working with the Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher Inclusion and in collaboration with other members of staff, to provide support and intervention strategies in order to meet the pastoral needs of the students at St Edmund Arrowsmith in a specific cohort.
To be responsible for the coordination of all pastoral activity for the cohort, ensuring that staff and managers are aware of issues of concern or causes for celebration.
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer For All Staff
We recognise that employee wellbeing and work-life balance are essential to thriving in the workplace. The Trust places a high value on providing a range of benefits for all colleagues, beyond the essentials of receiving professional recognition, networking and CPD, commensurate financial reward and job satisfaction.
Please take a look at our website and social media channels to get a real sense of the support that we provide to all our employees, including our full staff benefits package:
www.pfcmat.org/Staff-Benefits- Package/
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.