Teaching Pastoral Lead

Overview of Role

The Academy of St. Nicholas is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Teaching Pastoral Lead to join our team. In this role, you will teach a load of between 20-25 hours per fortnight, based on a 50 period per fortnight timetable, and will work alongside non-teaching Pastoral Managers to ensure the smooth daily operation of a year group.

The Academy is part of the All Saints Multi Academy Trust. There is a trust wide commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all young people in our academies living out the core values of ASPIRATION, INCLUSION & SERVICE.

Main Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the effective development and delivery of assemblies.
• Maintain a focus and overview of students’ behaviour & attendance in the year group with a view to continual improvement and high achievements.
• Maintain a focus and overview of students’ rewards across the year group.
• Monitor the effectiveness of interventions in place to support students across the year group.
• Induct all new staff into the procedures and practice for the subject ensuring they know about expectations, resources, planning, record keeping, etc.
• Liaise across phases and, as appropriate, with primary and secondary schools and outside agencies.
• Maintain a good level of personal knowledge of current educational developments.
• Promote parental engagement amongst the year group
• Responsible for leading a team of Life Tutors Provide positive and dynamic leadership of a year group by creating a supportive and innovative environment that encourages a culture of high performance.
• Pursue and promote the achievement and integration of diversity and equality of opportunity throughout the Academy’s activities.
• Maintain effective relationships with local, regional and national agencies, as appropriate.
• Develop appropriate external relations with other senior professionals and to represent the Academy at external meetings, as required.
• Report to the Deputy Headteacher (B&A) as required and chair any relevant subject working groups.
• Participate in the Academy’s appraisal process and engage in continuous professional development and networking to ensure that professional and strategic contributions are up to date.
• Undertake Home Visits (occasionally) to support the welfare and wellbeing of students.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of specific subject or phase areas.
• Use a variety of learning and teaching strategies to deliver innovative and effective lessons at a pace and style that meets the needs of students of all abilities.
• Have an up-to-date knowledge of national strategies to support effective teaching and learning.
• Understand and integrate the use of new technologies into learning experiences to continually raise levels of achievement.
• Plan lessons and extended learning opportunities thoroughly and in line with the Academy’s curricular plans and schemes; ensure that learning objectives and desired outcomes are communicated to all students.
• Adapt students’ learning to take of account of learning needs, appropriate challenge and preferred learning styles. Make use of extended learning opportunities for use outside the Academy lessons.
• Participate in the Academy’s Quality Assurance programme and the agreed framework.
• Work efficiently and creatively using the full range of resources available, including other adults.
• Provide a positive learning climate within lessons to promote a strong and meaningful staff – student relationship.
• Apply the agreed policies and ensure implementation in everyday life at the Academy.
• Regularly assess and evaluate students’ work and progress in relation to their prior attainment and to use data to further inform teaching plans.
• Report students’ progress within the Academy and for the benefit of parents and carers.
• Support curriculum planning to ensure that learning and teaching remain active, relevant and responsive to change.
• Maintain good order and behaviour for learning among students with particular regard for health and safety both on the Academy site and when engaged in authorised activities elsewhere.