Deputy Pastoral Care Manager

Witherslack Group; Billingham; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in special education is seeking a Deputy Pastoral Care Manager in Billingham. This role involves leading a team to support children with complex needs, ensuring their emotional well-being and development. Successful candidates will benefit from excellent training, a competitive salary, and a rewarding career-directed environment, rich in opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Training and onboarding

Holiday pay with full school holidays

Career progression opportunities

Flexible benefits options

Wellbeing support and resources

Medical cover

High-street discounts

£1,000 referral bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Beautiful working environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience with ASC, ADHD or SEMH pupils.
• Experience of multi-agency work with understanding of child protection.
• Strong team management and supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

• Enable team to meet emotional needs of young people.
• Work with families to develop individual care programs.
• Ensure high standards of care and create a positive learning environment.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Motivation

Organizational Skills

Education

NVQ 3 in Care

Level 2 Teaching Assistant Qualification

Leadership Related Qualification

Tools

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)

Job description

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Those Huge Small Victories

For children with complex, challenging needs, the level of care and education must go above and beyond. That’s what drives us, here at Witherslack Group. With our high staff-to-child ratio and in-house clinical teams, we’re proud to have won a reputation for excellence and market leading OFSTED ratings.

£29,093 - £33,366 + excellent benefits

Those Huge Small Victories

For children with complex, challenging needs, the level of care and education must go above and beyond. That’s what drives us, here at Witherslack Group. With our high staff-to-child ratio and in-house clinical teams, we’re proud to have won a reputation for excellence and market leading OFSTED ratings.

Get Out What You Put In

As a Pastoral Manager you’ll take the lead in enabling your team to meet our young peoples’ emotional needs. Our young people have challenging complex emotional and behavioural needs Autistic Spectrum Disorder/Social, Emotional and Mental Health and need more support than most. You’ll make sure they get it by applying high standards of care. It means working with families and developing programs for each individual young person. With careful assessment and planning, you’ll create a positive learning environment where every young person can thrive.

With experience working with young people with BESD or ASD in a school or care setting you will understand our young people’s developmental needs and what pastoral care entails. A good listener who can motivate your team, you inspire young people to achieve. Flexibility, good organizational skills and the ability to successfully manage a team means you’ll be an asset to the Witherslack Group.

One of the best environments in SEND

Hartwell School is an independent specialist day school providing high quality education, based in Stockton-on-Tees. The school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs, alongside a range of other associated conditions.

The recent Ofsted rating of Good has established the school as one of the leading specialist provisions in the North East.

What We Do For You

We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the education sector. With us, you’ll get to bring learning to life and make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

• Training: A full induction and on the job training
• Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays
• Progression: If career development is your thing, most of our head teachers and leaders have been promoted from within our group
• Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here
• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts
• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our schools here
• A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £1,000 bonus every time
• Contributory pension scheme – matched up to 5%
  
  

Bring Your Whole-self To Work

Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. You’ll be more than a Pastoral Manager, you’ll be able to connect with our pupils

Because Of

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience with ASC, ADHD or SEMH pupils and with working with families in challenging circumstances and expertise to support and resolve difficulties
• Experience of multi-agency work with an understanding of legislation, policies and guidance around safeguarding and child protection
• NVQ 3 in Care/Level 2 Teaching Assistant Qualification
• Ideally - Leadership related Qualification
• Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
• Experience of staff appraisal/performance management and supervision
  
  

Interested in joining us?

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You

deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

For a full job description and person specification, please click here

To view our ex-offenders policy please click here.

To view our Child Protection Policy, please visit the 'Parents and Carers' section of this School/Learning centre. You can find all our Schools here.

Special Education / Careers in Care / Careers in Special Education / Working with Children / SEMH / SEN / ASD

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