Pastoral Support Assistant

Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you relish the chance to support colleagues to make rapid sustained school improvement? If so, The Grange School has the perfect opportunity for you! This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join The Grange School Pastoral Team. We are seeking to appoint a Pastoral Support Assistant to assist with the work we do across the school in looking after our children, enabling them to learn in a happy and safe environment. This role is crucial in helping us to increase capacity and support the Pastoral Team in running a smooth and efficient service to ensure all students receive the care they need to thrive. The role will require the successful candidate to work with all school stakeholders including, students, parents, staff and outside agencies. For this role, you would need to have good communication skills, an empathetic approach to dealing with situations, well organised and be able to prioritise workload. The ability to work on their own initiative, as well as part of a team is essential. The successful candidate will be confident with the use of Microsoft Office, able to remain professional when handling confidential material, be an excellent communicator and ideally, have experience of working in a school or busy environment. Judged to be a Good School by Ofsted in April 2024, we are a mixed, non-selective 11-18 Foundation secondary school situated in the market town of Aylesbury and ten minutes from the Chiltern Hills - an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Oxford, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes and surrounded by delightful market towns and characterful villages. The students and staff at The Grange School make it a fantastic place to work. Our students are friendly and confident, and we strive to ensure that they achieve the success that they deserve. Together we have created a successful community school, where students learn the skills for success. Visits to the school are welcomed. Further details are available on our website. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students; thus, an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required. The school is committed to ensuring that safeguarding is a top priority and will consider carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence. Online searches solely aim to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school may want to explore with the applicant at interview. Please follow this link for more details: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/contact-us/vacancies/online-searches-on-shortlisted-candidates