General Responsibilities

1. Support the overall ethos of the Academy.
2. Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, copyright etc. reporting all concerns to line manager.
3. Be aware of, and support, difference and ensure equal opportunities for all.
4. Contribute to the overall aims of the Academy.
5. Undertake any other duties which may reasonably be regarded as within the nature of the duties and responsibilities/grade of the post as defined.

Specific Responsibilities

• Regularly monitor the individual progress, behaviour and attendance of all students in the designated group and take or support appropriate intervention to facilitate progress in line with target grades.
• Monitor, record and evaluate the impact of various interventions for students within the designated group, ensuring use of, and feedback for, the most effective interventions by the Pastoral and Department Teams.
• Identify students in need of specialised mentoring, and provide mentoring sessions where appropriate or facilitate alternative mentoring opportunities.
• To be proactive in establishing strong attitudes to learning across the school.
• To access student voice via year group or key stage assemblies, focus groups, interviews and questionnaires analysing student feedback to promote the learning experience and inform best practice for Pastoral and Department teams.
• To co-ordinate home / school links over a range of issues e.g. attitudes to learning, attendance, behaviour and individual progress.
• Proactively use the schools information management systems to regularly monitor behaviour and learning of all pupils, analysing any sub-group patterns and feeding back to key staff and stakeholders as appropriate.
• Meet with parents / carers to establish a strong sense of culture and the learning purpose within the Academy.
• Support and contribute to the review of parents’ evenings, celebration events and whole school events.
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• Improve and monitor attendance of year groups in liaison with the attendance officer.
• Be involved in the creation and establishment of Pastoral Support Plans and support the SENCo in collating information for EHC plans and JCQ access assessments.
• Champion an ethos and culture of high standards, resilience and self-belief within the student group through positive communication and coordination of a variety of speakers and topics for assembly.
• Attend identified activities in the evening and at weekends.
• Conduct school duties before, during and after school as prescribed.
• Liaise with external agencies.