Pastoral Support Assistant

Areté Learning Trust; York and North Yorkshire; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Areté Learning Trust is seeking an Enhanced Pastoral Support Manager to join our Pastoral Team across our North Yorkshire schools. You will support vulnerable students, liaise with safeguarding and external agencies, and ensure appropriate adjustments enable full participation in lessons.

You will work with Assistant Headteachers and the safeguarding team to coordinate targeted support, maintain records, and promote wellbeing and inclusive practice across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting vulnerable students in an educational setting.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail in record-keeping.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust with students, families and colleagues.

Responsabilités

• Manage a caseload of vulnerable students requiring enhanced pastoral support.
• Oversee provision ensuring access to lessons with appropriate adjustments.
• Liaise with external agencies to deliver coordinated support.
• Contribute to Inclusion Team meetings and share student support plans.
• Act as a first point of contact for students needing advice or referrals.
• Support Assistant Headteachers with investigations, meetings and interventions.
• Coordinate and monitor alternative provision for vulnerable students.
• Support students accessing education in additional spaces or due to long-term illness.

Connaissances

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Resilience

Team player

Initiative

Record-keeping

Description du poste

We are seeking a dedicated and highly organised Enhanced Pastoral Support Manager to join our committed Pastoral Team. This is a key role within the school, supporting some of our most vulnerable students to overcome barriers to learning and fully engage with school life. You will work closely with Assistant Headteachers (Behaviour and Inclusion), the safeguarding team, and external agencies to ensure each student receives the right level of support. The role requires a proactive, resilient individual who can build positive relationships, uphold high expectations, and make a meaningful difference to students' wellbeing and outcomes.

• Manage a caseload of students identified as vulnerable and requiring enhanced pastoral support
• Oversee provision for these students, ensuring they access lessons successfully with appropriate adjustments
• Liaise with a range of external agencies to deliver coordinated, multi-layered support where needed
• Contribute to Inclusion Team meetings, ensuring all stakeholders understand student support plans
• Act as a first point of contact for students requiring advice, guidance or referral
• Support Assistant Headteachers with investigations, meetings and student interventions
• Coordinate and monitor alternative provision packages for vulnerable students
• Support students accessing education in additional spaces or due to long-term illness
• A strong commitment to supporting vulnerable young people and removing barriers to learning
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust with students, families and colleagues
• Resilience, adaptability, and the ability to remain calm in challenging situations
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail in record-keeping
• A team player who can also work independently and take initiative
• A commitment to high expectations, inclusion and equality, Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
• Are committed to our Trust values.
• Show initiative and are responsive to change.
• Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
• Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
• Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
• Are team players.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential. Our Trust is committed to promoting:

• Health, happiness and wellbeing
• A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
• A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
• High standards and expectations
• Integrity, kindness and good manners
• Respect for individuality and difference
• Collaborative working to secure excellence

To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are 'Striving for Excellence'. Why work for us? We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture. We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance. In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the 'Employer of Choice'. Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who