Pastoral Support Manager
| Posting date: | 18 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 March 2026 |
| Location: | Durham, County Durham, DH1 1SG |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 493107d8-985b-4ddb-b8a0-6eabe68eb393 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Due to the recent promotion of the current postholder, we are looking to recruit an exceptional Pastoral Support Manager to join our outstanding sixth form team, part of the Providence Learning Partnership, where unwavering support, care, and guidance for our post-16 learners is at the heart of everything we do. This is an incredible opportunity to make a profound difference by championing the holistic success of an entire student cohort.
What Makes This Role Exciting?
• Support and Guidance: Provide high levels of support and guidance to students and their families, acting as a first point of contact and developing strong professional relationships.
• Drive achievement and progress: Monitor academic progress at key data captures and intervene where students are underperforming to address barriers to success.
• Lead attendance and conduct: Implement strategies to secure high standards of behaviour and attendance, including managing the Staged Sanction System.
• Safeguard and nurture: Play a vital role in student safeguarding by responding to concerns, collaborating with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), and maintaining thorough records via CPOMs.
• Shape future success: Support Year 12 students through their transition from pre-16 studies and guide Year 13 students with their progression plans, including UCAS applications.
• Develop and mentor a team: Directly line manage, support, and quality assure the work of a dedicated team of Progress Tutors and Senior Progress Tutors.
• Specialist Oversight: Act as the designated lead for Looked After Children (LAC) within your cohort, ensuring their specific needs are met through external and internal collaboration.
We are looking for someone who:
• Has experience working with young people or within an educational environment.
• Demonstrates exceptional planning, organisation, and time management skills.
• Exhibits outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to handle delicate or confidential situations with professionalism.
• Is able to inspire, lead, and challenge both students and colleagues with energy and drive.
• Can work with autonomy while remaining a committed member of the wider Pastoral Team
What the school offers its staff
Why choose us?
• Be a part of an Investors in People: Platinum [Employer of the Year 2025] organisation.
• We are a flourishing high-performing sixth form where students achieve and exceed their potential.
• Be part of a team that’s ambitious, supportive, and driven by purpose.
• Benefit from personalised CPD, leadership coaching, and genuine career progression.
Further details about the role
Thank you for your interest in the role of Pastoral Support Manager (PSM) at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We are delighted that you are considering joining our dedicated and dynamic Pastoral team, who play a vital role in our centre’s success and student experience.
The Pastoral Support Manager is a pivotal role at Durham Sixth Form Centre, occupying a significant position within the school. As lead professionals and role models, Pastoral Support Managers embody the school’s values and ambitions, fostering a culture of exemplary behaviour and mutual respect. They are directly accountable for pastoral care and holistic development, leading by example through exceptional professional conduct in support of the Directors of Year 12 and 13. By setting high expectations for both pastoral care and academic achievement, they champion a diverse and inclusive environment where every student can thrive.
Our students are at the heart of everything we do. Our Pastoral Support Managers play an integral role each leading half a year group of approximately 450 students and line managing a team of 4 Progress Tutors (including one who is the Senior Progress Tutor). The Pastoral team works collaboratively with teachers, the Progression team, the Health and Wellbeing team, the Student Support team, Academic Mentors, parents/carers and external agencies to ensure every student receives the guidance and support they need to flourish and succeed.
As a Pastoral Support Manager, you will be joining a team of skilled and dedicated professionals who are committed to making a real difference. You’ll need excellent communication and organisational skills, a strong understanding of the needs of young people, and the resilience to respond to the fast-paced, ever-changing demands of sixth form life and post-16 students in a pastoral role.
We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment, ongoing professional development, and the opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future with our students. If you are passionate about supporting young people and want to be part of a team that genuinely values care, high standards and ambition, we would love to hear from you.
Thank you for considering this role at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We look forward to learning more about you and hopefully welcoming you to our team. We would strongly encourage candidates interested in this role to visit us in advance and apply early. Should you wish to discuss this role further, or to arrange a visit, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Best regards,Lee Bone
Vice Principal
lee.bone@durhamsixthformcentre.org.uk
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.
Due to the recent promotion of the current postholder, we are looking to recruit an exceptional Pastoral Support Manager to join our outstanding sixth form team, part of the Providence Learning Partnership, where unwavering support, care, and guidance for our post-16 learners is at the heart of everything we do. This is an incredible opportunity to make a profound difference by championing the holistic success of an entire student cohort.
What Makes This Role Exciting?
• Support and Guidance: Provide high levels of support and guidance to students and their families, acting as a first point of contact and developing strong professional relationships.
• Drive achievement and progress: Monitor academic progress at key data captures and intervene where students are underperforming to address barriers to success.
• Lead attendance and conduct: Implement strategies to secure high standards of behaviour and attendance, including managing the Staged Sanction System.
• Safeguard and nurture: Play a vital role in student safeguarding by responding to concerns, collaborating with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), and maintaining thorough records via CPOMs.
• Shape future success: Support Year 12 students through their transition from pre-16 studies and guide Year 13 students with their progression plans, including UCAS applications.
• Develop and mentor a team: Directly line manage, support, and quality assure the work of a dedicated team of Progress Tutors and Senior Progress Tutors.
• Specialist Oversight: Act as the designated lead for Looked After Children (LAC) within your cohort, ensuring their specific needs are met through external and internal collaboration.
We are looking for someone who:
• Has experience working with young people or within an educational environment.
• Demonstrates exceptional planning, organisation, and time management skills.
• Exhibits outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to handle delicate or confidential situations with professionalism.
• Is able to inspire, lead, and challenge both students and colleagues with energy and drive.
• Can work with autonomy while remaining a committed member of the wider Pastoral Team
What the school offers its staff
Why choose us?
• Be a part of an Investors in People: Platinum [Employer of the Year 2025] organisation.
• We are a flourishing high-performing sixth form where students achieve and exceed their potential.
• Be part of a team that’s ambitious, supportive, and driven by purpose.
• Benefit from personalised CPD, leadership coaching, and genuine career progression.
Further details about the role
Thank you for your interest in the role of Pastoral Support Manager (PSM) at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We are delighted that you are considering joining our dedicated and dynamic Pastoral team, who play a vital role in our centre’s success and student experience.
The Pastoral Support Manager is a pivotal role at Durham Sixth Form Centre, occupying a significant position within the school. As lead professionals and role models, Pastoral Support Managers embody the school’s values and ambitions, fostering a culture of exemplary behaviour and mutual respect. They are directly accountable for pastoral care and holistic development, leading by example through exceptional professional conduct in support of the Directors of Year 12 and 13. By setting high expectations for both pastoral care and academic achievement, they champion a diverse and inclusive environment where every student can thrive.
Our students are at the heart of everything we do. Our Pastoral Support Managers play an integral role each leading half a year group of approximately 450 students and line managing a team of 4 Progress Tutors (including one who is the Senior Progress Tutor). The Pastoral team works collaboratively with teachers, the Progression team, the Health and Wellbeing team, the Student Support team, Academic Mentors, parents/carers and external agencies to ensure every student receives the guidance and support they need to flourish and succeed.
As a Pastoral Support Manager, you will be joining a team of skilled and dedicated professionals who are committed to making a real difference. You’ll need excellent communication and organisational skills, a strong understanding of the needs of young people, and the resilience to respond to the fast-paced, ever-changing demands of sixth form life and post-16 students in a pastoral role.
We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment, ongoing professional development, and the opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future with our students. If you are passionate about supporting young people and want to be part of a team that genuinely values care, high standards and ambition, we would love to hear from you.
Thank you for considering this role at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We look forward to learning more about you and hopefully welcoming you to our team. We would strongly encourage candidates interested in this role to visit us in advance and apply early. Should you wish to discuss this role further, or to arrange a visit, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Best regards,Lee Bone
Vice Principal
lee.bone@durhamsixthformcentre.org.uk
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.