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Teaching Vacancies; Purfleet-on-Thames; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Academy Riverside is seeking a dedicated Pastoral Officer to support staff and students, promoting a safe environment and high standards of behaviour. You will help overcome barriers to learning, focusing on academic, social and emotional wellbeing.

Salary for this role is £28,067.69 to £29,752.53 for 37.5 hours per week across 39 weeks per year, with benefits and a supportive environment within the Harris Federation.

Qualifications

• A good level of education is required.
• Experience working in a busy school environment is desirable.
• Ability to work well in a team and with children and young adults.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to development of the School Behaviour Policy.
• Assisting in monitoring the wellbeing of pupils within a year group.
• Liaising with parents and outside agencies and attending meetings as appropriate.
• Supervising work in line with School policy.
• Promoting positive values and good student behaviour; dealing with conflicts.
• Establishing productive relationships with pupils to encourage engagement.
• Reporting pupil and school issues as per health and safety policies.
• Attending parent consultation evenings, meetings and training sessions.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Behaviour management

Student wellbeing

Experience with children

Conflict management

Organisational skills

Education

Good education level

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a Pastoral Officer to support staff and students at Harris Academy Riverside, promoting a safe environment with excellent levels of behaviour so everyone is entitled to learn. You will help overcome barriers to learning using a range of techniques, including pupil counselling, focusing on the academic, social and emotional wellbeing of the pupils.

The actual salary for this role will be £28,067.69 - £29,752.53 (37.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year).

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• A good level of education
• Good communication skills verbal and non-verbal
• Experience of keeping a clean, tidy, well ordered environment
• Experience of working in a busy school environment
• Experience of working within a team
• Experience of working with children and young adults
• Experience of managing conflict

For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.

What the school offers its staff

Harris Academy Riverside is a very popular non-selective and highly oversubscribed academy which opened as part of the Harris Federation and the regeneration of the Purfleet on Thames area in 2017. We serve our local community of Purfleet on Thames and West Thurrock and have 900 on roll in the secondary academy and around 200 students in the 6th form.

Vision

Harris Academy Riverside seeks to develop students who are successful, confident and happy, who inspire their community and who act with kindness and compassion towards others.

Ethos

In our procedures and daily routines, our broad and varied curriculum, our pedagogical model and through our commitment to providing experience of the wider world we aim to promote a strong sense of community and belonging, to provide a blend of high challenge and high support and to encourage the development of

• Outstanding habits of behaviour such as self-awareness, kindness, appreciation, humility, politeness, confident self-expression and self-presentation and
• Outstanding habits of learning such as determination, resilience, organisation, reading, studying and practice

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes

• our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS
• a Annual Loyalty Bonus
• Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
• a Wellbeing Cash Plan

and many other benefits.

Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Further details about the role

Your responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to the development of the School Behaviour Policy
• Assisting in monitoring the academic, social and emotional wellbeing of pupils within a year group
• Liaising with parents and outside agencies and attending meetings as appropriate
• Supervising work that has been set in accordance with the School policy
• Promoting positive values, attitudes and good student behaviour, dealing with conflicts and incidentsManaging pupils who are showing socially unacceptable or challenging behaviour
• Establishing productive working relationships with pupils using methods to encourage engagement and participation in activities
• Maintaining daily contact with assigned pupils to support, assist and enable them to meet the targets set and develop the attitude and skills to meet targets with less support
• Working in partnership with other practitioners to deliver effective interventions and support for children and families.
• Encouraging pupils to develop social and independence skills whilst providing support when it is needed.
• Reporting pupil and school issues in line with the School's policies for health and safety, child protection, behaviour management etc.
• Attending parent consultation evenings, meetings and training sessions as required

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.