Pastoral Support Worker

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Exeter; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

Job summary

Wave Academy Trust is seeking a dedicated Pastoral Support Worker to support pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs. You will work under the Senior Leadership Team and Pastoral Support Manager, using a whole-family approach to promote attendance, development and wellbeing.

The role emphasizes safeguarding, resilience, and collaboration with families, schools and other agencies to provide a supportive learning environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, boundless patience and resilience.
• Ability and enthusiasm to make a difference with pupils who have social, emotional and mental health needs.
• Commitment to safeguarding and Enhanced DBS check required.

Responsibilities

• Provide pastoral support to pupils with additional needs.
• Collaborate with Senior Leadership Team and Pastoral Support Manager.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Patience

Resilience

Pupil support

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint an outstanding, dynamic Pastoral Support Worker who embodies the Trust’s values; people who have diverse experiences, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent teamwork and communication skills, boundless patience and resilience and the ability and enthusiasm to make a difference with pupils who have a range of social, emotional and mental health needs.

This unique and rewarding role works under the direction of the Senior Leadership Team and will complement the work of the Pastoral Support Manager. Using a ‘whole family’ approach and focusing on the strengths and difficulties within the family; the Pastoral Support Worker will enable parents’ recognition that their children’s cognitive development and learning is important, as is the instilling of values, aspirations and support for the development of wider interpersonal and social skills. Whilst promoting the importance of consistent school attendance and engagement with education.

The Pastoral Support Worker plays a crucial part in the effective safeguarding of children and young people.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.

Wave Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for allapplicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 2020& 2023).This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to bedisclosedto employers, and if they aredisclosed, employers cannot take them into account.Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should bedisclosedcan be found on the Ministry of Justice

What the school offers its staff

• Pension
• Training & Development
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free Parking

Further details about the role

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online check.