The Position: Pastoral Support Worker (Term Time only)
We are seeking a caring and empathetic individual to support and motivate vulnerable students, particularly Children Looked After, Care Leavers, Young Carers, and under‑18s living independently, who may have a range of behavioural, social, and emotional needs, including mental health challenges.
The successful candidate will advocate for and support students to ensure they are ready to learn, achieve, and progress, working closely with curriculum areas, college support services, and external agencies.
What Skills Are We Looking For
- Awareness of strategies to support students with a range of needs including social, emotional and behavioural.
- Experience of receiving disclosures, understanding support requirements and making appropriate recommendations of support.
- Safeguarding Qualification, Level 2 equivalent or willingness to work towards.
Responsibilities For The Role
- Support and work with an allocated caseload of students to ensure that their pastoral and welfare needs are met.
- Develop an understanding of the specific needs of the students and support the development of strategies to meet their needs.
- Work with internal stakeholders and external support services as required to ensure student pastoral and welfare needs are met.
The Location: The site is based at Nuneaton but may require travelling to other sites on an ad hoc basis.
If you would like to have an informal chat about the role, please contact Lindsay Parker to arrange a quick call by emailing: Lindsay.Parker2@nwslc.ac.uk.
Why Should You Apply
- The pay range we’re offering is £19,832 – £20,765.
- Term time only role 35hrs per week (38 weeks per year) plus bank holidays and up to 5 additional closure days.
- Access to Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer pension contribution.
- We offer great staff development opportunities.
- Family friendly policies and procedures.
- As part of the application process, you’ll be asked to complete a series of shortlisting questions. To strengthen your application, we recommend linking your answers directly to the person specification outlined in the job description.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion are integral to everything that we do. We are committed to these values, and they are central to our mission. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment, please contact the recruiting manager.
We aim to support our employees in achieving a healthy work‑life balance. We recognise that many of our employees have responsibilities and are committed to providing support for our employees. We are working hard to support flexible and new ways of working where possible and offer a wide range of benefits.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
“Please apply as soon as you can as we reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a suitable number of applications.”
Shortlisting Process
Each question is scored by a minimum of two people on the interview panel. Those applicants with the highest overall score and who meet the essential criteria for the role will progress through to the interview stage and then their application form will be considered too.
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