Pastoral Assistant

Wimbledon High School; City Of London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious girls' school in the heart of London seeks a caring Pastoral Assistant to strengthen student welfare as part of the Core Safeguarding Team. Candidates should possess strong organisational skills, understand wellbeing and safeguarding issues, and be comfortable working with data. The role includes administrative tasks, supporting the GROW Programme, and event planning. Competitive salary and professional development opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salaries and pay progression

Access to extensive professional development opportunities

Flexible Pension Plan

Training grants for qualifications

Free life assurance benefit

Discounts on fees for GDST schools

Interest-free loans for training and purchases

Cycle to Work scheme

Competitive terms of employment

Qualifications

• Highly organised and proactive individual is essential.
• Sound understanding of wellbeing and safeguarding issues.
• Experience with young people is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day administration of safeguarding records.
• Help shape the GROW Programme and support attendance strategy.
• Assist with planning and organisation of events.

Skills

Organisational skills

Understanding of wellbeing and safeguarding issues

Confidence in data analysis

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Job description

Wimbledon High School is seeking a caring and sensitive individual to take on a key safeguarding role in our school community as a Pastoral Assistant. As part of our Core Safeguarding Team, you will provide essential administrative assistance to ensure that every student receives timely, bespoke support when it is needed, playing an active part in maintaining and promoting student welfare. This will involve overseeing the day‑to‑day administration and management of the risk register, CPOMS, safeguarding records and student safeguarding plans. Although this is primarily an administrative role underpinning our pastoral and safeguarding work, there will be opportunities to directly support the development of proactive, student‑facing care at the school. You will help shape the GROW Programme, assist with the school’s attendance strategy, support the planning and organisation of events and offer input into the school’s wider wellbeing strategy.

We are looking for a highly organised, positive and proactive individual with a sound understanding of wellbeing and safeguarding issues affecting young people. You should be confident analysing and manipulating data and have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and the wider Microsoft Office suite. A commitment to ongoing professional and personal development is also essential. While experience working with young people is desirable, it is not essential for success in this role.

Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co‑curricular opportunities, character‑forging partnerships and our ‘playful scholarship’ approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London. An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter. We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls’ Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on ‘play’ in our Junior School and ‘playful scholarship’ in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem‑solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off‑timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection. A vast array of co‑curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good. Our school aims: Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High. Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.

As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:

• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
• Training grants for qualifications
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season tickets
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment