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PASTORAL MANAGER VACANCY

Required for an individual Year Group (Year 11)

(Permanent position)

Please Note: The individual Year Group may change at the end of any given academic year.

Working pattern: 37 hours per week, term time + 5 training days

Salary: Kent Range 7 (£22,022 actual starting salary / £25,378 full time equivalent)

Start Date: As soon as possible

St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School is seeking to recruit an experienced, hardworking, and proactive practitioner for the role of Pastoral Manager, who will be assigned to an individual Year Group (Year 11). The successful candidate will be responsible for managing student welfare and behaviour, whilst promoting a sense of personal excellence in our students. Please Note: The individual Year Group may change at the end of any given academic year.

Our new Pastoral Manager will need to be a confident, professional and approachable communicator, as he/she will be liaising with external and internal stakeholders; including staff, students, parents/carers and the wider community. The successful applicant should have good time management skills, be able to meet deadlines, be empathetic, as well as having a flexible approach to work as priorities could change at short notice.

St John’s is a successful co-ed Catholic comprehensive school with over 1300 pupils, including over 300 students in our Sixth Form and c.200 students in each Year Group from Years 7-11. We have a very strong Catholic ethos and pride ourselves in being a warm and welcoming community, something that was externally recognised in our recent Section 48 Inspection of January 2020, where we achieved ‘Outstanding Catholic School’ status.

St John's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references and an Enhanced DBS check.  This role includes specific safeguarding responsibilities, as defined in the job description.  Our school’s dedicated Child Protection Policy can be viewed here:  https://www.stjohnscs.com/page/?title=Policies+and+Guidance&pid=11

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

If you would like any further information or to arrange a tour of the school (strongly recommended), please do not hesitate to get in contact with our Operations Manager, Mrs Lynn O’Neill, via the email address below.

If you would like to apply for this exciting opportunity, please follow the link below to our website; www.stjohnscs.com and click on the Recruitment tab to locate Job Vacancies. Kindly complete the Support Staff Application Form and Recruitment Monitoring Forms and then email the forms to Mrs Lynn O’Neill, via the email address below.

Closing date: 8am, Monday 25th March 2024

Interview date: To be confirmed

Applications to Mrs Lynn O’Neill: loneill@stj.kent.sch.uk


 

 

St John's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references and an Enhanced DBS check.