Job details
Salary: £21,568 to £22,628 pa (pay award pending)
Payscale: NJC 8 -11 Hours: 35 hours per week, 0830-1600 with 30 min unpaid lunch break 38.4 weeks (term time plus 2 INSET days)
Start date: 01/09/2026
Contract type: Permanent
Reporting to: Deputy Head (Pastoral Lead)
Overarching Purpose
Duties and responsibilities
➢ Working alongside the Deputy Head (i/c Pastoral), along with our excellent pastoral leaders, your role is to ensure the highest standards of Safeguarding and student support are maintained at all times.
➢ Provide support to the Deputy Head (i/c Pastoral) for any welfare or pastoral support of students as required, responding immediately to emerging staff or student concerns
➢ Following training, act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.
➢ Monitor the attendance of ‘vulnerable’ groups of students
➢ Work directly with students in need and their families in the community to promote, strengthen and develop the potential of parents/ carers and their children being placed in care/ suffering significant harm.
➢ Ensure students who are victims of abuse are supported appropriately and sensitively and that all actions are successfully carried out and monitored.
➢ Maintain a working knowledge of the educational guidelines on child protection. (Keeping Children Safe in Education Parts 1-5)
➢ Support the Deputy Head (i/c Pastoral) in processing Education Child Protection referrals directed to Child & Adult Services, and PREVENT via Channel.
➢ Meet with parents, use appropriate external agencies for advice and make appointments for students internally and externally where appropriate.
➢ Manage, lead and support interventions such as Early Help, Team Around Family and behaviour support
➢ Make referrals following the approved and appropriate protocols where and when required.
➢ Attend meetings as the school representative, such as Early Help, Team Around Family, Child in Need and Child Protection meetings, Safeguarding briefings, etc. as directed by the Deputy Head (i/c Pastoral) Liaising with parents, taking child’s voice, as required.
➢ Manage casework as directed by the Deputy Head (i/c Pastoral)
➢ Ensure that information systems used to store student welfare concerns and safeguarding issues are kept up to date & confidential
➢ Follow the Lincolnshire Six Year Training Pathway, as guided by the Deputy Head (i/c Pastoral), to attain and then maintain DDSL status
➢ Support the primary to secondary transition process, identifying any students who are on the Child Protection register or where there are general safeguarding concerns
➢ Shares with teachers, colleagues and supporting professionals and parents, issues of concern and positive feedback about the student’s welfare and achievement
➢ Support students returning from fixed-term or internal exclusion.
➢ Support students identified as displaying emerging behaviour difficulties through the Behaviour Policy
➢ Cover lunchtime supervision and Year 11 supported study when required
➢ Be first aid trained
➢ Attend staff briefings on Monday mornings (8.38am)
➢ Support Safeguarding training of staff in School
➢ Undertake fair and reasonable duties as directed by the Headteacher
➢ Other optional continual professional development (CPD) opportunities shall be discussed with the Line Manager through the Performance Review Process.
➢ Personnel employed in the role should be suitably qualified and experienced in the identified areas. Where training needs are identified, the individual will be allocated the time and relevant training in order to undertake their role safely, and effectively. Notes:
Please note that this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the headteacher or line manager.
➢ Deadline for applications: Monday 15th June, midday
➢ Interviews: TBC
➢ Email: [email protected] with your application. You must complete an application form to apply for this role, this can be found on the vacancies page of the School website. Your application cannot be considered if you do not complete the school form.
➢ We reserve the right to interview before the deadline date, if appropriate.
Pay: £21,568.00-£22,628.00 per year
Work Location: In person
