#### Job description
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**Job Title: Pastoral Lead**
**Salary: Up to £30,000.00 per annum**
**Location: New Barn School, Newbury, Berkshire**
**Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday**
**Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only**
**UK applicants only.**
**As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a
Pastoral Lead to join our close-knit team at New Barn School, part of Acorn
Education**
**Job Purpose: To see job description, please click here -**
* To lead on effective safeguarding and pupil welfare strategies and plans to ensure the safety and emotional wellbeing of our students
* To provide detailed and effective advice on Positive Behaviour Profiles and Behaviour Support Plans, based upon behaviour data from both parts of the School
* To provide advice and guidance with regards to existing profiles and plans, to ensure that they are effective and up to date
* To monitor safeguarding, health, accident, injury and damage incidents within all year groups and make positive interventions, analysis and recommendations when necessary via SLT
* To identify personal issues that are affecting students’ performance and learning and inform appropriate and relevant managers and staff to assist where required
* Working directly with students, families and agencies to address barriers to learning which include bullying, discrimination, attendance and welfare issues
* To monitor attendance and truancy issues and devise and implement intervention strategies to improve these issues in accordance with our student Attendance Policy
* To produce Attendance action plans for each student falling below 90%
* To Communicate and liaise with teaching staff to improve the relationships with students in the School
* To be friendly, helpful and welcoming to parents and others visiting to ensure that positive relationships are created and maintained
* To develop positive relationships with students Contribute as part of a multidisciplinary team to achieve best outcomes with regards to positive behaviour support
* To keep up to date on relevant legislation and guidance, briefing key people on any changes as required
* To monitor the quality of positive handling support (STRIIDE) through evidence based systems and give advice and guidance as appropriate following each handling intervention
* To contribute to the review of relevant policies in relation to positive handling support (STRIIDE) and to assist with the setting up of any relevant internal systems as required
* To be the designated Safeguarding Officer for the whole School
* To initiate contact with other agencies on behalf of the School and to liaise with all parties on a regular basis
* To represent the School when requested at Interagency or other professional meetings
**For a full list of Responsibilities and Duties, please see the Job
Description**
**About The School**
New Barn School offers a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum to boys and
girls, aged 6 – 19 years who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health
complexities.
New Barn School takes full advantage of its beautiful settings and fosters a
love for using the outdoor curriculum including forest school, farm
experiences and horse riding. The School is within a commutable distance of
Swindon, Oxford, Andover, Basingstoke and Reading and other surrounding towns
and villages.
Our services offer a stable, secure and supportive environment, in which the
pupils and young people we care for can develop the skills and confidence
necessary to help them fulfil their potential.
Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist
education for vulnerable pupils. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are
leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide
measurable outcomes for those in our care.
We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially
certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.
**Why join Acorn Education?**
**Benefits**
**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional
reward package including:**
* Life Assurance
* Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
* “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits
Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you,
including:**
* A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
* 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
* Cycle to Work Schemes
* Electric Car Purchase Scheme
* Critical illness cover
* Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support
**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils in our services at
the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that
your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.**
**We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. All
applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to
a fully enhanced DBS.**
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