Job Description

Pastoral Support Officer

Longsight

Prospero Teaching are looking for a Pastoral Support Officer to work as a member of the Pastoral Support Team in a supportive alternative provision in Manchester. You must drive for this role in order to support the pupils and liaise with parents and other supporting bodies.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Responding to all queries from a wide range of people in an efficient and courteous manner
Providing information and support to young people and their parents/carers, enabling them to fully access the service, including arranging transport of PRU pupils and parents/carers
Providing accurate and timely Information, Advice and Guidance to students, their families and partners to ensure appropriate levels of achievement and progression pathways
Signposting service users to relevant services or pass the content of enquires to appropriate colleagues where necessary
Attending and, when required, to convene Placement Planning and Review meetings and multi-agency meetings as necessary
Liaising with partners and providers to develop appropriate personalised education programmes for individuals with complex needs.
Reporting , verbally and/or in writing as required to the PRU Pastoral Manager, the Head of PRU, the PRU Management Committee and Ofsted

CONTRACT/POSITION DETAILS

Location - Longsight
Position - Pastoral Support Officer
Type of work - Pastoral
Contract or position start date - ASAP

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS ROLE THROUGH PROSPERO TEACHING, YOU MUST:
Hold a DSL or other safeguarding qualification
Hold Right to Work in the UK
Hold an enhanced child barred list DBS certificate registered with the online update service or be willing to process a new application
Provide two professional child related references
have a full, clean UK Drivers License and Access to your own car
OTHER

If you would like to be considered for this role, please apply with a copy of your up to date CV.

Unfortunately, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.The successful candidate will be required to register with Prospero Teaching in order to fill this vacancy.