About this role
Pastoral Support
• Take a lead role in delivering pastoral support to pupils through the Damascus room
• Provide advice to pupils relating to their social, health, hygiene and emotional development needs
• Assist the teacher with the development and implementation of individual Education/Behaviour/ Support/Mentoring plans
• To lead on the Behaviour Curriculum
• Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model
• Arrange and develop 1:1 mentoring for pupils and provide support for distressed pupils individually or in small groups
• Support the reintegration of those who have been absent e.g. through long term illness, exclusion
• Provide information and advice to enable pupils to make choices about their own learning/behaviour and attendance and consequences of their actions
• Facilitate restorative conversations between pupils and/or staff
• Challenge and motivate pupils, promote and reinforce self esteem
• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress, achievement, behaviour, attendance etc. Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging information, facilitating their support for their child’s attendance, access to learning and supporting home to school and community links
• Take a lead role in the development, implementation and monitoring of systems relating to attendance and integration e.g. registration, truancy, pastoral systems etc.
• Be responsible for recording the SLT lunchtime detentions
• To run the SLT after school detentions
• Deal as appropriate with administration e.g. dealing with correspondence, compilation/analysis/reporting on attendance, exclusions, making phone calls
• Investigate incidents occurring in a school context and reporting the results of those investigations to the Form Tutor, Head of Year or Assistant Headteacher as appropriate
• Updating the behaviour log on SIMS
• Update the Damascus data on Google sheets
Teaching and Learning Support
• Support pupils’ access to learnin