Pastoral Support Worker- Fixed Term

WMJobs; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Cycle to work

Blue Light Card

CPD opportunities

Job summary

The Mercian Trust is seeking a dedicated Pastoral Support Worker for New Leaf School in Walsall. You will help maintain a calm, safe daily environment, guiding pupils towards positive choices and resilience through restorative approaches.

Join a committed team and contribute to safeguarding, behaviour support, and student progression within a nurturing school community.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting pupils with behavioural needs.
• Ability to build trusting relationships with students and staff.
• Knowledge of safeguarding principles and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support pupils' behaviour to maintain a calm and safe environment.
• Encourage positive choices during transitions and breaks.
• Work with teaching and pastoral staff to reinforce expectations.
• Contribute to safeguarding and behaviour support systems.

Skills

Relationship building

Behaviour support

Restorative approaches

Safeguarding

Job description

The Mercian Trust,

Job Title: Pastoral Support Worker

Location: Walsall

We passionately believe that every young person who attends New Leaf School should achieve excellent personal and academic progress. This is due to our nurturing and caring approach.

We provide a personalised learning experience to enable students to reintegrate into a mainstream school or to transition into an appropriate educational establishment. This equips them with the skills they need to succeed in their future.

Every day is a step forward, a chance to grow, an opportunity to build resilience and confidence needed to step forward into the future.

We work with our young people to ensure that any barrier in their life we overcome together. This support is also extended to our young people's families who we work really hard with to support them as we know the benefits that this has on our students.

At New Leaf, we welcome every young person with open hearts and open minds. Our promise is very simple to provide a safe, nurturing environment where all of our students are believed in, valued and given the opportunity to thrive.

Our Values

Ready- Being ready means more than just having a pen or a planner, it also means being mentally prepared, emotionally supported and equipped to focus on the task at hand.

Respectful - Respectful means recognising our own worth and the worth of others. Our students learn that respect is not just about their own behaviour, but also about the way that they treat each other and themselves when they're in a learning environment.

Safe - That's the foundation. Feeling safe, acting safe, and making sure that others feel the same. When a young person feels safe, we know that everything else becomes possible.

Our core values underpin everything we do. We want our staff and students to be ready, respectful and safe.

To see more of the amazing work we do: New Leaf School Website

About The Role

We are looking for a Pastoral Support Worker to join our team.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting pupils’ behaviour around school, helping to maintain a calm, safe and purposeful environment throughout the day. This will include encouraging positive choices during transitions, breaktimes and unstructured times, using restorative and relational approaches to de-escalate situations, reinforce expectations and help pupils develop confidence, resilience and self-regulation. The role will require someone who can build trusting relationships with pupils, work closely with teaching and pastoral staff, and contribute consistently to the school’s wider safeguarding and behaviour support systems.

For full details of the post please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Why The Mercian Trust?

As one Trust we share a common purpose. We call it our social mobility and social justice mission to change our communities through the very best equitable education. When we get this right, it enables our children and young people to fulfil their potential, thrive in the world of work, and make a positive contribution to the local, national and international community. Our recent achievements include:

Sustainable Growth - becoming one of the largest and most diverse trusts in the region

Social Mobility & Social Justice - National recognition for the Trust’s two selective grammar schools who the most successful on the number of local disadvantaged students passing the entrance and joining the schools

Increasing Opportunities - Opening brand-new purpose-built campus in Walsall Town Centre including an alternative provision for students at risk at permanent exclusion from mainstream schools alongside a Digital Skills Hub to provide professionals and employers

Pioneering Spirit - National recognition for pioneering work around youth mental health, including establishing an in-house multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and allied health professionals delivering interventions and providing support to vulnerable students

Outward Looking - Organising and hosting the region’s first Youth Suicide Conference (2023) and Youth Violence Conference (2024) at Villa Park

Innovation and Improvement - A multi-million-pound investment in the digital infrastructure of Trust schools and our Digital Skills Hub underpinning the ongoing transformation of how staff teach, students learn, leaders lead and the whole Trust operates in readiness for the AI-supercharged careers and workplaces of the future.

Want to be a part of something extraordinary? Find out more: The Mercian Trust website

What can we offer you:

Benefits:

Financial, Health and Lifestyle

discounts on everyday purchases (Eden Red) a comprehensive free of charge health plan (UK Health Care) a cycle to work scheme via Halfords Access to the Blue Light Card For further benefits including education sector leading CPD: The Mercian Trust website

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.

The Mercian Trust is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Please take time to read our policies attached to this advert.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.