Pastoral Support Assistant

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, positive and committed Pastoral Support Assistant to join our highly regarded pastoral support team within the school. This is a great opportunity to join a highly successful school as part of a friendly and very hardworking department.

Overall responsibility

• The Pastoral Support team has responsibility primarily for supporting the Assistant Headteachers and Heads of Year to achieve high-quality pastoral care of students, enabling students to achieve the highest standards of learning, ensuring they are successful, confident and happy.
• To triage pastoral concerns under the guidance of the Assistant Headteachers and indicate appropriate pathways for students.
• To act as DDSL within the school.
• To refer cases to DSL, other DDSL, Heads of Year or Form Tutors as appropriate.
• To ensure that students follow the school's high expectations, both in and out of the classroom.
• To contribute to the safeguarding and promotion of the well-being and personal care of children and young people with regard to the area child protection procedures.

The successful candidate will work with our well-established pastoral team and will be responsible for supporting the Heads of Year to achieve high-quality pastoral care of students, enabling students to achieve the highest standards of learning and ensuring that the students are successful, confident and happy. They will also offer pastoral support, act as DDSL within the school and provide administrative support in meeting the welfare and pastoral needs of students. They will need excellent time management, strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to prioritise duties; they will also need to work on their own initiative while working as part of a wider team.

Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys is an expanding and rapidly improving selective grammar school. It is undergoing a period of transformational change benefiting from a multi-million pound investment in Tunbridge Wells and a brand new building at our Sevenoaks campus, which opened in September 2021.

Staff benefit from a positive working environment, with strong support for professional development and specialist teaching rooms. We aim for high standards and the pursuit of academic excellence, helping every student to reach their full potential through the development of skills, concepts and knowledge, within the framework of a caring community. Relationships between staff and students are based on trust, mutual respect and a determination to succeed.

Please note that we will only accept CVs that are accompanied by an application form (see below). We shall review applications as we receive them and we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role; therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.