Pastoral Support - maternity cover - Summit Learning Trust

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team as Pastoral Support. The role is to help support Heads of Year in ensuring the pastoral and academic progress of our learners across one or more year groups in the Academy. Working with colleagues to ensure policies, behaviour and procedures are followed by all learners.

Candidates will have excellent interpersonal and customer service skills, as this role requires regular contact with parents, colleagues, learners and the local community. The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate that they have strong track record of working effectively within a pastoral team and record keeping. Other essential skill sets involve the ability to be able to work flexibly and prioritise workload, work calm under pressure and uphold a professional, friendly manner at all times.

It is desirable for candidates to have received safeguarding training or have good knowledge about the child safeguarding and protection procedures, however full training will be given.

This role is 36.5 hours per week, term time plus 2 weeks – This is a fixed term post to cover Maternity Leave.

About our Academy The greatest strength of our academy is our learners who are often praised for their creativity, musical talents, artistic performances and the respect they have for one another. Learners generally understand the importance of learning, value their academy and are proud to be part of it. Ninestiles has a very reflective teaching body, who welcome feedback from parents and learners to secure the needs of all learners.

The academy has a wide and varied curriculum, learners have access to an impressive range of sporting and extracurricular activities with well over sixty enrichment opportunities offered after academy. There is a strong culture of safeguarding and colleagues work positively with the leadership team to ensure learners are kept safe. The leadership team of Ninestiles is progressive and has the vision, drive and support to lead the academy on a journey of excellence, with colleagues that have a passion for teaching and learning.

About the Trust

Why work for us? We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth.

These include access to

• Employee assistance programme
• high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression
• Wellbeing advocates
• Lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme
• Health Protection Scheme alongside Flu Jab and Eyecare vouchers
• generous employer pension schemes
• excellent holiday entitlement

To Apply Please visit our website 

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.