Pastoral Support

Role: Pastoral support Assistant

Start Date: As soon as Possible

Salary: £19,180.89 to £20,444.22 (PAY AWARD PENDING) - for support staff only]

Term: 1 year post with the possibility of the role being extended beyond this.

Working weeks and hours: term Time +1 week

Working times: 8.30 to 3.00 pm

Our school has been on a continuous upward trajectory for a number of years. In the summers of 2022 and 2023, our Year 11 cohorts achieved Progress 8 scores putting us in the top 10 in the county. In the summer of 2024, based on student progress, we placed in the top 8.1% of schools nationally.

As a community that develops personal growth, excellence and achievement for all, we are incredibly proud of everything the school has become and what we have achieved in the last few years: our well-rounded young people who have gone on to purposeful and challenging further education, some of the best GCSE results in the county and our recent Ofsted report (February 2026).

The Ofsted report states “The school is a warm, welcoming community where pupils are respected and well cared for. Pupils flourish academically. Pupils take their learning seriously and relish the challenge of academic study. Classrooms buzz with learning.” We were delighted to achieve Strong Standard in Leadership & Governance, Curriculum & Teaching and Achievement.

As a community that develops personal growth, excellence and achievement for all, we are incredibly proud of everything the school has become and what we have achieved in the last few years: our well-rounded young people who have gone on to purposeful and challenging further education, some of the best GCSE results in the county and our recent Ofsted report.

We are also hugely proud of our staff who are relentlessly hardworking, supportive of one another and passionately committed to securing the best possible life chances for the young people we serve.

Our students are currently benefitting from a real focus on high standards and academic excellence within the classroom. This role is an exciting opportunity for you to join our pastoral team, to provide pastoral support to the Heads of Year and help further our vision. It will require huge amounts of perseverance and a constant drive for innovative excellence but will also be incredibly rewarding and will offer exciting progression for the future.

Enrich Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974