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Pastoral and Welfare Support Assistant
32.5 hours per week
Term time plus three inset days (38 weeks per year)
Starting as soon as possible
Flexible working/job share considered
Grade 14 (£25,185 - £25,989 FTE)
Actual salary £18,458 (pay award pending)
Court Fields School is a vibrant and inclusive school committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for all our students. We require a highly organised person to support the Pastoral Manager with a wide range of duties and responsibilities. This is a challenging and busy role, working as part of a team in the Wellbeing Hub. You will need to work well within a team, have excellent communication skills and a flexible approach. Experience of working in a school and first aid experience will be a significant advantage.
What you can expect from us:
•Eligibility to join an excellent pension scheme.
•Option to make additional voluntary contributions to pension for local government pension scheme members which can help boost retirement benefits.
•Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities.
•Trust wide charity events designed to encourage our people to participate in meaningful activities.
•Access to wellbeing provision which offers information and advice on a range of workplace and personal issues.
•Flexible working opportunities.
•Enhanced special leave provision, including additional time off as part of our ‘Personal Day’ entitlement which supports employees to achieve a better work/life balance.
•Free car parking.
•On-site catering facilities, all of which provide healthy and nutritious meals at low cost.
Closing date: 9am on 1st June 2026
Provisional Interview date: w/c 8th June 2026
Safeguarding Statement
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 under the Exceptions Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). This means that both spent and unspent convictions and cautions may need to be disclosed. However, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ under filtering rules and do not need to be disclosed. Guidance on what 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
Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexuality or religion.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS). As part of our due diligence process when shortlisting, we may carry out an online search of publicly available material to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
References: References will be taken up on short-listed candidates that will include questions about past disciplinary actions or allegations in relation to behaviour with children, previous employers may be approached for information to verify particular experiences or qualifications before interview.
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