Reports to: School Leader – Pastoral

THE PASTORAL TEAM

The Pastoral Team currently provides a pivotal link between our high expectations of personal development, behaviour, safeguarding and positive engagement in school. Our current team includes five Heads of Year, five Achievement Coordinators, two Inclusion SENDCo’s, Student Services and the Hub. This post will offer additional non-teaching pastoral capacity to this team. The Pastoral Team prides itself on building excellent working relationships with students, teams of staff and parents to ensure every student has the support and guidance to keep them safe and achieve their best within our Work Hard Be Kind ethos.

THE VACANCY

The successful candidate will work within a dynamic and child centred Pastoral Team at Toot Hill School, managing the behaviour, welfare and academic achievement of our students. The post holder will work closely with students, parents and staff to remove barriers to learning and progress and will support a team of tutors to deliver the highest standards of student behaviour attitude to learning and attendance.  There will be a requirement for the post holder to analyse data to inform and implement appropriate intervention, mentoring or counselling, ensuring our students respond positively.

We are looking for a passionate individual who will be an integral member of our extensive pastoral team, and who will embrace our Work Hard Be Kind ethos. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and a role model who fosters a culture of high expectation and support.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Toot Hill School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are therefore expected to behave in such a way that supports this commitment. Appointment to this post will be subject to the following satisfactory pre-employment checks:

• Health
• Identity
• Relevant work qualifications
• Right to work in the UK
• Teacher Prohibition Check (for teaching staff)
• Barred List Check (previously List 99)
• Disclosure & Barring Service Check (for all staff and volunteers)
• References
• Childcare Disqualification Declaration Check (relevant Primary School posts only)

Job Purpose

To work within the Pastoral Team managing the behaviour, personal development, welfare and academic achievement of our students. Working closely with students, parents and staff to remove barriers to learning and progress.

General Responsibilities

1. Support the Work Hard, Be Kind ethos of the school.
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 the line manager.
3. Be aware of, and support, difference and ensure equal opportunities for all.
4. Contribute to the overall aims of the school.
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 driving our strong behaviour and learning ethos 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.
• Communicate with parents/carers to further develop a positive home-school partnership.
• Support and contribute to parents’ evenings, celebration events and whole school events.
• Be involved in the creation and establishment of Pastoral Support Plans and support the SENCDo in collating information for EHC plans.
• Support whole school site supervision through duties before, during and after school.
• Liaise with external agencies.