Pastoral Manager - Ferndown Upper School

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About The Role

PASTORAL MANAGER

Job Reference XS 8.1 Senior Administrative Officer

Dorset Grade 8 Scale Point 12-20 - £13.69 to £15.70 per hour (pay award pending)

Pay progression available with experience

37 hours per week

Term time only plus 5 staff training days

To Start As Soon As Possible

A non-teaching member of staff is needed to manage the attendance, behaviour, welfare and safeguarding for a year group. The successful candidate will work alongside and support our existing teaching Heads of Year, Heads of House, DSL and SLT link as we continue to support all students to achieve their best academic outcomes, whilst dealing with the many diverse issues that arise in a school.

Key responsibilities include:

• Recording and dealing with safeguarding concerns
• Working with students with complex social and emotional needs
• Responding to behaviour incidents, collecting statements and speaking to students, managing the report card system
• Checking attendance for the year group is accurate on Bromcom and making referrals to the attendance service for students of concern
• Responding to parental concerns within 24 hours
• Being available for multiagency work
• Organising drop in sessions for other agencies in school and making appointments for students in your year
• Proactive support of student needs

You will be:

• Experienced in working with a variety of external agencies
• Experienced in dealing with child protection and child in need processes
• Experienced in working as a pastoral/behaviour support manager/worker
• Conversant with safeguarding procedures
• Conversant with attendance procedures
• Committed to raising standards of achievement
• Able to work constructively as part of a team
• Able to organise, lead and motivate others
• Able to prioritise work and meet deadlines under pressure
• Able to liaise with staff, students, parents and external agencies in a calm, sensitive and confident manner.

What Ferndown Can Offer You:

• CPD opportunities and training and development programmes.
• Personalised induction, supported by a mentor.
• Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• A tax efficient Childcare Scheme through salary sacrifice.
• Access to health and wellbeing support.
• Private Healthcare Plan including 24/7 access to a GP by phone, gym discounts, cashback for optical, dental and other appointment expenses for employees and their children.
• Access to staff benefits and discounts portal through Dorset Council.

For more details please contact [email protected]

To apply, please click on 'Apply Now' on Dorset Jobs website. Alternatively, please logon to our website www.fernup.dorset.sch.uk and click on Job Vacancies.

Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 22 nd September 2024

Further Information

Ferndown upper School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ's guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

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