Pastoral Support Manager in Mansfield Woodhouse

Aston Community Education Trust are a forward thinking and ambitious multi‑academy trust, comprising of three secondary academies and nine junior academies across the Rotherham, Sheffield and North Derbyshire areas. Shirebrook Academy are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and effective Pastoral Support Manager. Under the direction of the Pastoral and Learning Leads, the post holder will contribute to the pastoral provision across the whole academy.

Working collaboratively with a team of Pastoral Support Managers, Pastoral and Learning Leads, the Leadership Team, Middle Leaders and other members of teaching and support staff, to provide students with the necessary support they need during their school career, thus enabling them to achieve their full potential.

Responsibilities:

• Provide pastoral support to identified students
• Support the academy safeguarding leads
• Carry out duties/patrol, as required
• Organise and administer appropriate rewards and sanctions
• Work with the school council and encourage student participation
• Liaise and seek involvement as appropriate from parents/carers, teachers, inclusion staff and other agencies in relation to the welfare of students
• Contribute, as required, to consultation evenings, staff meetings, assemblies, celebration evenings and other activities
• Review student progress by analysing monitoring data
• Monitor student attendance, punctuality, praise and cause for concern in line with the Code of conduct, Behaviour and Attendance and all other relevant policies, and ensure appropriate action is taken when required
• Contribute as appropriate to the production of student progress and monitoring reports
• Create a positive climate where students can achieve and reach their full potential
• Monitor students during the school lunchtime period
• Be well‑motivated and flexible
• Have a can‑do approach
• Have good communication skills
• Have a professional manner and plenty of common sense
• Be able to work as a team

You will be based at Shirebrook Academy; however the role may, on occasion, involve working at other academies within the trust. Term time only includes working 2 out of 5 INSET days each academic year as directed by the school, with availability to work any or all of the remaining 3 INSET days at short notice should the need arise, and for which additional payment will be made.

Safeguarding: ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites. It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind‑over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974. Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self‑declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality: ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job. We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.