What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary: Band F NJC points 16-19. Full Time: £29,572 - £31,067. Actual Salary: £25,294 - £26,572
Contract: Permanent, Term Time plus 3 days
Hours: 37 hours Monday to Friday
Closing Date: Friday 24th January 2025 at 9.00am
Interview: to be confirmed
Start Date: As soon as your notice period allows
Are you able to develop positive professional relationships with our young people? Can you support students to reflect, repair and re-engage? Do you have the skills to enable students to reach their full potential regardless of past behaviours? If so, we need you!
We are seeking someone who is a strong team player, hardworking and enthusiastic to join our exceptional pastoral team. The successful candidate will be responsible for our Reset Room (isolation room), managing this important provision to provide students with the right environment and support to reflect and repair. You will co-ordinate the availability of learning resources, ensuring no lost learning time, but more than that, you will be a trusted adult who mentors and guides students to make better choices and truly excel. As a member of our pastoral team, you will contribute to the wider school community and will have the opportunity to make a life changing difference to our students, well beyond the confines of a single room.
We are therefore looking for someone who has a range of experiences, skills and attributes and who is committed to our mission of transforming lives together.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a school and trust which is thriving, in a role where you can really make a difference. This role is suited to both a teacher and non-teacher and we can’t wait to hear from you.
What you’ll get in return?
You’ll be joining a school and Trust which is all about putting staff first – with numerous wellbeing initiatives and social events to enjoy each term!
• Automatic enrolment to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
• Staff development through appraisal and CPD
• Access to a canteen
• Staff benefits package via vivupincluding employee assistance program, home and electronics discounts, eyecare vouchers and cycle to work scheme
• Great transport links – Honley Train Station is across the road
• Free onsite car parking
• Collaboration with Trust colleagues in similar roles
• Working as part of a creative and supportive team who want the best for all of our students
What the role involves in a nutshell:
• Co-ordinating internal isolations, liaising with parents, students and staff as necessary.
• Supervising the Reset room, ensuring that students’ behaviour meets our high standards and expectations.
• Contributing to the wider pastoral team and working directly with students across school to achieve the best possible outcomes for them.
• Providing work and resources that enable students to make progress while in Reset.
• Liaise with teaching staff to facilitate their successful return to lessons.
• Work closely with Heads of Year and the wider pastoral team.
If our school sounds like a place in which you could really make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.
See our job pack below for further details.
HOW TO APPLY
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Could we be a good fit for each other? If you’d like a chat about the role or have questions ahead of making a formal application, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact our Personal Assistant to the Senior Leadership team Nicola Pogmore via n.pogmore@honley.tlt.school
If you’re ready to apply, please complete your online application fully before the deadline.
SAFER RECRUITMENT
We are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to behave in a way that supports this commitment and are subject to an enhanced DBS check. Please be aware that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. If you are shortlisted for interview, we will undertake an online public search in line with guidance from the Department for Education and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.
What the school offers its staff
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Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.