Salary: £35,412 - £39,152, BG10, N19 - N24
Actual Salary: £28,037 - £30,968
Contract: Permanent / Full Time / Term Time Only + Inset Days
Closing date: Monday 23 February 2026
Interview date: Week commencing 2 March 2026
Purpose:
The Pastoral Manager will support and facilitate the personal development and academic progress of children by managing day-to-day pastoral matters. In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of attendance, safeguarding, and behaviour management, where you will oversee early intervention support for vulnerable pupils. You will be leading the delivery of personalized pastoral interventions while working with the Assistant Head Pastoral and other senior leaders to ensure a safe, inclusive, and high-quality service for our community.
Duties (further details in the attached application pack):
- Manage day-to-day pastoral matters, including attendance, behaviour and safeguarding, to support children's personal and academic progress.
- Lead on attendance and punctuality for an assigned caseload, ensuring accurate record-keeping and timely intervention.
- Identify, plan and deliver personalised and group pastoral interventions for vulnerable pupils.
- Help children adhere to school behaviour expectations and implement policies, which may involve being firm and direct.
- Act as a designated safeguarding officer, maintaining detailed records on CPOMS and ensuring a culture of listening to children.
- Engage in multi-agency work and attend child protection case conferences to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children.
- Establish constructive relationships with parents and carers through routine communication and attendance at key school events.
- Act as a source of pastoral advice and expertise for staff while modelling best practices in confidentiality and data protection.
We offer:
- Enhanced CPD, including access to professional networks across the Trust
- Paid induction and training suited to the role
- Confidential access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Free parking
- Use of the Cycle Scheme
- Paid completion of a DBS check
- Flu vaccination vouchers
- Free eye tests (where the employee is desk-based)
- Where eligible, automatic enrolment to the relevant pension scheme
- Honouring of continuous service earned in the Local Authority
Fluency Duty
This role has been identified as falling within the definition of requiring fluency in spoken English. You will be required to speak English with confidence and be able to conduct a conversation and answer questions for extended periods of time.
Trust in Learning (Academies) is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance. Our policy and practice is in line with the Department for Education’s ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ most recent Guidance. We ensure that all appropriate measures are applied in relation to everyone who works for the Trust who is likely to be perceived by the children as a safe and trustworthy adult. Safer recruitment practice includes scrutinising applicants, online checks, verifying identity and academic or vocational qualifications, obtaining professional and character references, checking previous employment history and ensuring that a candidate has the health and physical capacity for the job.