Pastoral Support Officer

Responsibilities

• To assist the Head of Year 7 (HoY) in the day-to-day leadership and management of the students in the year group.
• To work with the Head of Year, Inclusion Teams, and Senior Leadership to implement pastoral strategies and support cover for internal provisions as required.
• To provide crucial student welfare by offering emotional, social, and academic guidance.
• To act as a liaison between students, parents, and teachers.
• To implement strategies to remove barriers to learning, focusing on attendance, behaviour, and well-being, ensuring students feel safe, included, and can reach their potential.
• Attendance & Punctuality
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  • Monitoring and addressing attendance issues and promoting high standards by ensuring the school's attendance policy is implemented thoroughly and consistently.
  • Leading on pro-active initiatives to promote good attendance and punctuality.
  • Overseeing and managing the menu of support students are receiving and monitoring the impact of this.
  • Collaborating with attendance leads across the school to share best practice.
• Collaborate on the rewards system for the year group: leading assemblies and supporting the successful implementation of year group reward initiatives.
• Behaviour Management
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  • Support the Head of Year in managing behaviour, including maintaining reports and implementing proactive strategies to promote positive conduct.
  • Support the Head of Year with investigations into incidents, working closely with the LSC (Learning Support Centre). This will include gathering evidence from a variety of sources such as statements from students and checking CCTV.
  • Facilitate mediations between students where appropriate.
• Direct Student Support
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  • Identify students who may require additional support, including vulnerable students, and make referrals to appropriate internal and external support services where required.
  • Mentoring individuals and small groups, offering emotional and practical help, running check-ins, and supporting transitions between lessons where needed.
  • Supporting with the supervision of students during break times.
  • Being highly visible to ensure high expectations of students are upheld and provide support to staff as needed.
• Liaison & Communication
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  • Serving as a link between students, parents, and school staff, responding to concerns and providing feedback, including making phone calls home to parents, leading meetings and conducting home visits as required.
  • Proactive parent contact regarding students' attendance, behaviour patterns and early concerns (with support and guidance from the HoY).
  • Support the Pastoral Lead with transition work, including outreach to key feeder primary schools to build strong relationships and share information on Year 6 students allocated to the school for entry into Year 7.
  • Support with the implementation of the school's transition arrangements, including interviews, transition days, Right Start programme.
• Administration and Data
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  • Supporting the admin needs of the year group.
  • With support from HOY, review data (behaviour, attendance, punctuality and rewards) to put in place early intervention.
• Deputise for the Head of Year as required.
• Undertaking any other responsibilities which may be reasonably directed by Senior Leaders.