Pastoral Leader

The Oaks Academy are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate and highly organised Pastoral Leader to join our dedicated team. The successful candidate will play a key role in promoting student wellbeing, supporting attendance, behaviour and safeguarding, and ensuring that all pupils are able to thrive both academically and personally.

Working closely with students, families, teachers and external agencies, the Pastoral Manager will provide targeted support to pupils facing barriers to learning and help create a positive, inclusive school environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide pastoral support and guidance to students across the school.
• Monitor and improve student attendance, punctuality and engagement.
• Support positive behaviour and implement school behaviour policies.
• Work collaboratively with safeguarding leads and contribute to student welfare initiatives.
• Liaise effectively with parents, carers and external agencies.
• Identify and support vulnerable students, ensuring appropriate interventions are in place.
• Maintain accurate records and prepare reports as required.
• Support students' emotional wellbeing and personal development.

The Successful Candidate Will Have:

• Experience working with children and young people in an educational or pastoral setting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to build positive relationships with students, staff and families.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills.
• A calm, resilient and solution-focused approach.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and child protection practices.
• A commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.

What can we offer you:

• The Learning Partnership Trust has a comprehensive and supportive performance management process, to motivate, inspire, and develop colleagues to ensure that both staff and pupils can realise their potential. There is a wealth of continuous professional development and networking opportunities across the Trust.
• Collaborative working across trust schools and sharing best practice are highly encouraged, and we have opportunities for more formal training and qualifications through the Trust.
• The trust promotes and prioritises staff wellbeing through its commitment to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. A new staff benefits programme has launched this academic year, providing staff discounts in response to the rising cost of living, and offers a confidential employee assistance programme to support staff mental health and wellbeing both personally and professionally

• TLP Perks - access to a wide range of discounts and benefits for employees of The Learning Partnership Trust.

Hours of work: 37 per week, full-time hours during term time.

Contract: Permanent to commence in November 2026

Actual salary range: £ 28,109 to £ 30,691 (Actual)

Application and Interviews: Applications for role close on Thursday 29th October 2026 (midnight). Interviews will WB 2nd November 2026.

As part of our commitment to employee development, all internal applicants will be offered a priority interview.

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The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected'. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure & Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable.

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status.

The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers.