Pastoral Lead Full Time

• Pastoral Lead
• Full-time
• Special Needs school
• September 2022

A specialist secondary school for pupils with SEMH Needs are looking for a Pastoral lead to support pupils across the school.

The Role

As a pastoral lead your role will be to provide pastoral support for pupils through a range of interventions and support outside the classroom. You will carry a case load and offer timetabled support to individual pupils across the school.

Your responsibilities will include:

• To develop and maintain effective and supportive mentoring relationships with children (including those with complex and challenging needs), parents and those engaged with them
• To assist staff in identifying pupils needing pastoral support and those who would benefit from mentoring help to overcome barriers to learning; and to provide assessments of their personal, social and emotional needs
• To manage and be responsible for a caseload of students including those with complex and challenging needs. Innovate and deliver effective, alternative programmes to raise motivation, aspirations and develop positive behaviours.
• Update and monitor safeguarding concerns liaising with MASH as needed
• Provide reports for leaders, governors and external services e.g. referral forms for MASH

The school are looking for a learning mentor who has the following:

• Relevant experience in a school setting
• An excellent understanding of how to support pupils with social and emotional needs
• High-level communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and administration skills

The role is offered on a full-time basis. The role will be initially offered as a temporary contract but has the potential to become a permanent role in the school.

The School

This specialist Academy in Bromley is a provision for young people aged 14 – 18 with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.  The school offers an amazing opportunity to specialise in vocational subject areas whilst being in a safe and happy learning environment. The dedicated and experienced leadership team have worked hard to create an atmosphere of mutual respect and resilience to support students to grow into purposeful young adults who are able to contribute to society in a positive way.

The school offers excellent career prospects to their staff including:

• P.R.I.C.E. training – CPD
• Teacher training
• The chance to join their pastoral team

We have a policy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Philosophy Education is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.