Hans Price Academy · Weston-super-Mare, South West
Job Title: Pastoral Support Lead
Actual Annual Salary: £36,567 - £39,013 - based on hours and weeks worked.
Full Time Equivalent Salary : £39,649 - £42,301 (CLF Grade F) based on full time hours, all year round.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week - Full Time, Term Time Only plus 5 insets + 3 weeks
Potential Start Date: Sept 2026 – Pending completion of pre-employment checks
The Pastoral Support Lead will lead pastoral support across a key group. You will create a sense of ‘identity and community’ and will provide a high level of care to all students by promoting wellbeing and attainment and providing support and challenge for pupils and their families.
You will work proactively and preventatively to ensure students are supported to achieve and progress in their education. The successful candidate will promote the highest standards of engagement, behaviour, conduct and attitudes in all students in the group, also monitoring and supporting academic and social development across the group, undertaking interventions where appropriate to support the most vulnerable learners.
About you:
You will have:
Qualification with behaviour and/or SEND element (e.g. NPSLBA) or other relevant qualification in behavioural support work and/or equivalent experience.
Advanced knowledge of safeguarding within an educational setting.
Knowledge of legislation, guidance, and relevant research which inform safeguarding practices, including low level concerns.
Knowledge and understanding of current issues relevant to Inclusion and Raising Achievement.
Knowledge of the academy’s legal responsibilities in monitoring attendance.
Child Protection and/or Advanced Safeguarding trained, or willingness to undertake training.
An appropriate First Aid qualification or willingness to undertake training.
Full driving licence and access to vehicle with business insurance.
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
Hans Price Academy is a forward-thinking secondary school located in Weston-Super-Mare. Hans Price children are excited to learn and are real ambassadors for our increasingly diverse community. They benefit from a hugely positive and supportive learning environment housed in excellent, modern facilities.
At Hans Price we believe that at the heart of our students’ learning experience is the quality of what we deliver, and we continually strive to provide excellent opportunities in a broad range of subjects and extra-curricular settings. Fulfilment of individual potential is at the very heart of what we hope to achieve and development of students’ wider character alongside high academic expectations is something we feel very strongly about.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the S