Details
1091575
University of Warwick
27/01/2025
Other - See Job
Monday to Thursday 8am to 4pm and Friday 8am to 3.30pm TERM TIME ONLY
Smart Casual
Pay
£17.58
£2.12
Description
Role
A local secondary school require a Pastoral Leader to cover a maternity leave until the end of the academic year. There is also the possibility that the role will extend for another year to cover a second maternity leave.
The aim of the role is :
To support the aims and objectives of the school and work with the Leadership Team to ensure that students make outstanding progress by removing barriers to learning. To work with Trust colleagues with responsibility for careers to develop and deliver opportunities for learners.
Duties and responsibilities
Student progress
- Support students in their learning, and encourage positive attitudes and behaviour in and around school; assist in ensuring time spent during guided studies is constructive and well used.
- Assist in the transition arrangements from one key stage to another.
- Support the positive transition of students who arrive mid-year, liaising with the Head Teacher, parents, subject staff, tutors and other staff as appropriate and organising pupil support.
- To attend and support the organisation of Parents’ Consultation and information evenings.
- Assist with the coordination, monitoring and evaluation of strategies to raise student attainment.
- Student attendance
- Liaise with outside agencies to intervene in hard to reach families to remove barriers to learning.
- To promote a positive ethos by ensuring that rewards are prominent and regular and that parents are integral to the rewards system.
- Liaise with individual teachers, departments and faculties in relation to behaviour and learning of individual and groups of students.
- Promote student voice and get students actively involved in school life.
- Liaise with SENCO to remove barriers to learning for SEN students.
- Run intervention and reward strategies to improve behaviour in and around school.
- To be the first port of call for Child Protection issues within the year group.
- To support and run staff training around safeguarding policies and procedures. Including CPOMS and safeguarding for new starter induction.
- To attend meetings, take minutes and type notes for safeguarding case work.
- Contribute to Common Assessment Framework Processes including identifying students causing concern, liaising with parents/carers, organising multi-agency meetings in school to support the student and attending focus group meetings and core group meetings, as appropriate, in liaison with appropriate staff in school and the named person for Child Protection
- Co-ordinate the personal education plans for Children Looked After (CLA).
Skills and experience
To apply for the role you will need:
- A minimum of 2 years’ classroom experience, or relevant work with young people in one of a range of fields such as education, youth work, health and social work.
- Providing individual support for children and young people
- An excellent understanding of the needs and characteristics of young people
- An appreciation of different learning styles associated with the development of young people and potential barriers to learning
- A good understanding of opportunities beyond 16- 18 education and the demands of this transition on young people.
- Good understanding of the roles played by various adults in the education of young people
- An understanding of issues pertaining to safeguarding children and young people A professional role model who is committed to their own professional development and to developing others
- Committed to and able to promote the aims of the school and the values of the Trust: Learners First, It’s about Learning, No Barriers
- Able to work calmly under pressure and withstand stress
- Able to work flexibly, and to attend meetings and INSET days as required
Location
Coventry
Benefits
Free Parking
The possibility that the role will extend until July 2026 to cover for a 2 maternity leave.
Additional information
This assignment is subject to a DBS Check; Unitemps is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment