Vacancy for Pastoral Support Officer (2 Posts) Required for September 2025 Term Time 39 weeks 37 hours per week Fixed term to 31/08/2026 Grade 5 – Spine Point 7-11 Actual Annual Salary £22,084.68 - £24,071.59 Pedmore High School are recruiting for 2 x Pastoral Support Officers for September 2025. We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools and one primary school with over 750 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley, West Midlands. We are looking for enthusiastic and committed Pastoral Support Officers to join our dynamic Inclusion Team. Reporting to the Assistant Headteacher for Behaviour and Safeguarding, your role will be to support the behaviour and pastoral welfare of our students. We have a strong team ethos within the school and you will be joining a welcoming staff, a very warm school and one which is happy in its aspiration to achieve excellence for all. To arrange a visit or if you require and further information please contact Mrs A Cherrington – Headteacher’s PA – Email acherrington@pedmorehighschool.uk Telephone: 01384 686711 Closing Date: Monday 16 June – 12 noon Interviews due to take place; Monday 23 June 2025 In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, as a part of our recruitment process we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image or other content that could cause reputational damage to the trust and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover anything during our searches this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during interview. We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2024 – KCSIE 2024 This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. 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. Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance/dbs-filtering-guide As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.