Pastoral Support Assistant
| Posting date: | 03 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 March 2026 |
| Location: | Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 9EH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 0ba09c02-e061-4807-8e3a-f48d11866215 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
In this role, you will proactively manage and address behavioural issues for identified students and the wider student body, ensuring behaviour aligns with school expectations. The successful candidate will act as a mentor to students facing behavioural challenges, offering guidance and support. By working closely with the pastoral support manager and year leaders, you can ensure that identified students who require specific behavioural support receive the right help and timely intervention. You will have the opportunity to coordinate additional internal support programmes for students, including anger management and peer mentoring, that aim to improve emotional regulation and reduce behavioural incidents.
For a complete Job Description, Person Specification, and Candidate Briefing Pack, please view the attached documents. We recommend viewing these documents as they will guide you in preparing a strong application and help you understand what we’re looking for in an ideal candidate.
What the school offers its staff
As a fully comprehensive school, we are a diverse and vibrant establishment where each student is at the heart of all that we do. We are determined to deliver quality-first teaching, and we have the highest expectations of our students who learn within our safe, nurturing but challenging school environment. We have a strong reputation for academic excellence and pastoral support and, by engaging in our whole-school provision, our students have every opportunity to develop into happy, confident and well-rounded young adults.
Our school’s foundations are built on strong relationships with students and their parents or carers. We recognise that pastoral partnerships that are both supportive and collaborative provide the best platform for our students to be aspirational and realise their potential.
We celebrate personal achievement and those who overcome personal hurdles. We encourage students to engage in opportunities for teamwork, leadership, adventurous, competitive and individual challenge and nurture them to be caring, thoughtful and respectful of others and their environment. We want our students to appreciate other cultures as well as their own community and to be reflective of their interactions with others.
We actively encourage our young people to embrace a whole school life. We provide a rich and broad curriculum, enhanced through a varied extracurricular programme where no young person is hindered from experiences that will enhance their cultural-capital due to personal social circumstance.
Our staff are our greatest asset. They have high levels of expertise and a tangible sense of vocation. We invest in our staff through our extensive continued professional development programme so that they can be the best practitioners possible for our students.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. A copy of the school’s Safeguarding Children in Our School Policy and our Policy and Code of Conduct for Safe Practice are available on our website. An online profile search will be conducted and references will be sought on all shortlisted candidates prior to interview. The post is subject to receipt of an enhanced DBS to include children's barred list checks. Disclosure will contain details of formal cautions, reprimands and final warnings, as well as convictions.
In this role, you will proactively manage and address behavioural issues for identified students and the wider student body, ensuring behaviour aligns with school expectations. The successful candidate will act as a mentor to students facing behavioural challenges, offering guidance and support. By working closely with the pastoral support manager and year leaders, you can ensure that identified students who require specific behavioural support receive the right help and timely intervention. You will have the opportunity to coordinate additional internal support programmes for students, including anger management and peer mentoring, that aim to improve emotional regulation and reduce behavioural incidents.
For a complete Job Description, Person Specification, and Candidate Briefing Pack, please view the attached documents. We recommend viewing these documents as they will guide you in preparing a strong application and help you understand what we’re looking for in an ideal candidate.
What the school offers its staff
As a fully comprehensive school, we are a diverse and vibrant establishment where each student is at the heart of all that we do. We are determined to deliver quality-first teaching, and we have the highest expectations of our students who learn within our safe, nurturing but challenging school environment. We have a strong reputation for academic excellence and pastoral support and, by engaging in our whole-school provision, our students have every opportunity to develop into happy, confident and well-rounded young adults.
Our school’s foundations are built on strong relationships with students and their parents or carers. We recognise that pastoral partnerships that are both supportive and collaborative provide the best platform for our students to be aspirational and realise their potential.
We celebrate personal achievement and those who overcome personal hurdles. We encourage students to engage in opportunities for teamwork, leadership, adventurous, competitive and individual challenge and nurture them to be caring, thoughtful and respectful of others and their environment. We want our students to appreciate other cultures as well as their own community and to be reflective of their interactions with others.
We actively encourage our young people to embrace a whole school life. We provide a rich and broad curriculum, enhanced through a varied extracurricular programme where no young person is hindered from experiences that will enhance their cultural-capital due to personal social circumstance.
Our staff are our greatest asset. They have high levels of expertise and a tangible sense of vocation. We invest in our staff through our extensive continued professional development programme so that they can be the best practitioners possible for our students.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. A copy of the school’s Safeguarding Children in Our School Policy and our Policy and Code of Conduct for Safe Practice are available on our website. An online profile search will be conducted and references will be sought on all shortlisted candidates prior to interview. The post is subject to receipt of an enhanced DBS to include children's barred list checks. Disclosure will contain details of formal cautions, reprimands and final warnings, as well as convictions.