Pastoral Care & Attendance Lead

Waterside Academy; Grimsby; In loco; GBP 28.000 - 36.000; Tempo pieno

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Waterside Academy is seeking a dedicated Pastoral Lead to coordinate the pastoral team across the school day, ensuring timely support for pupils and consistent safeguarding practices. You will lead on attendance oversight, behaviour management and safeguarding procedures, while building strong relationships with families and staff.

The role focuses on supporting pupil wellbeing, coordinating multi‑agency input when needed, and promoting the academy’s Inclusive, Aspirational and Nurturing culture

Mansioni

• Coordinate the pastoral team throughout the school day, allocating staff according to pupil need, emerging incidents, planned interventions and whole-school priorities.
• Provide clear daily direction and operational supervision to pastoral staff, ensuring roles, priorities and expected outcomes are understood.
• Ensure pastoral, behaviour, attendance and safeguarding systems are followed consistently, accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Maintain a visible presence across the academy and support staff to respond calmly, safely and consistently to pupils who are distressed, dysregulated or in crisis.
• Consult the Deputy Headteacher responsible for pastoral care on significant, complex or high-risk matters and provide concise, accurate updates to support decision‑making.
• Promote Waterside Academy’s values of Inclusion, Communication, Aspiration and Nurture through daily practice and team leadership.
• Support the induction, development and day-to-day performance of pastoral staff, identifying training or support needs and sharing effective practice.
• Contribute to team meetings, briefings, supervision, appraisal and service improvement as directed by senior leaders.
• Oversee the day-to-day work of the attendance team and ensure first-day response, welfare checks and escalation procedures are completed promptly.
• Coordinate individual attendance plans and review their impact, ensuring actions have clear ownership and timescales.
• Support safe transitions at the start and end of the day, movement around the site, breaks, lunchtimes and other identified pressure points.
• Monitor behaviour and attendance information to identify pupils, groups or patterns requiring action and report findings to senior leaders.

Descrizione del lavoro

Waterside Academy is seeking a dedicated Pastoral Lead to coordinate the pastoral team across the school day, ensuring timely support for pupils and consistent safeguarding practices. You will lead on attendance oversight, behaviour management and safeguarding procedures, while building strong relationships with families and staff.

The role focuses on supporting pupil wellbeing, coordinating multi‑agency input when needed, and promoting the academy’s Inclusive, Aspirational and Nurturing culture