Pastoral Officer

We have a 3 new opportunities available for a Pastoral Officer's to join our team based in Derby, Wolverhampton and Brierley Hill. You will join us on a full-time basisand in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £20,000 - £25,000 per annum.

Operating for over 35 years, Juniper is one of the UK’s most experienced providers of training and apprenticeships. With 14 delivery sites located across the West Midlands, East Midlands and North West, we support in excess of 2000 students per year and work with over 300 employers. Rated as GOOD by Ofsted in all areas of provision, we are ideally placed to support students, adults and employers in bridging the skills gaps between education and employment.

Some of the benefits that Juniper offers include:

• Generous paid holidays – 25 days to start with, increasing by length of service up to 30 days
• A flexible holiday scheme – allows you to buy up to 10 days holiday, or sell up to 5 days holiday (based on full-time)
• An extra day off to celebrate your Birthday
• J-Fit – a scheme where employees participate in 3 x 45 minute exercise activities each week for a year, your reward…..an additional working weeks annual leave!
• A contributory pension scheme
• Childcare vouchers; cycle to work scheme
• Excellent working hours – our core business hours are 8.30 am – 4.30 pm, but we appreciate the importance of a good work-life balance and try to accommodate atypical working patterns wherever possible
• An annual conference and team building day
• Extensive training opportunities – both internally and externally, accredited qualifications and a comprehensive competency training plan
• Regular reviews and development planning to support career development
• The opportunity to take part in social events / support local charities
• Employee involvement – we ask for your feedback via surveys, focus groups and programme development and really do listen!
• And of course, to work with some of the best people in the business and the opportunity to change lives.

The Pastoral Officer Role:

You will safeguard the welfare of all students, preventing radicalisation and promoting British Values as well as ensure that safeguarding reports are up to date and accurate.

You will ensure the Centre meets targets for student attendance, by ensuring robust interventions are in place and followed that lead to improving attendance and behaviour and be the Centre Safeguarding Lead and ensure procedures followed and staff & students are supported.

You will also make referrals to the Counsellor/external agencies in order for students to receive further support.

Key responsibilities as our Pastoral Officer:

• To have an in-depth understanding of Government legislation on Safeguarding and Prevent, including “Keeping Children Safe in Education” and “Working Together to Safeguard Children”.
• Keeping abreast of developments and understanding the latest information on data protection, confidentiality and other legal issues
• To maintain and update Juniper’s on-line Safeguarding database
• To participate in meetings with external agencies, where appropriate.
• To signpost & coordinate support from external support agencies.
• Be skilful in monitoring and championing students with a wide range of different abilities and needs
• To promote a culture of high expectations and achieve student attendance targets
• To monitor student attendance
• Holding meetings with parents/guardians/stakeholders and conducting home visits
• To ensure targets are set and documented with individual students.
• To celebrate and recognise those students with excellent attendance.
• To know and understand where to access local and national support agencies
• To signpost and refer students who need support and document this, as per procedure.
• To support centre staff in ensuring all students progress to a positive destination.
• Undertake networking & marketing activities, including social media.
• Undertake tracking of students who have left programme and provide on-going support.

As our Pastoral Officer you will need:

• Level 2 English and Maths
• A robust knowledge of Safeguarding legislation
• L3 safeguarding training
• To persuade & influence others and deal with conflict/challenging behaviour
• To remain positive, with a bubbly, engaging personality
• To work on own initiative
• Able to build a rapport with target group but also communicate professionally

Desirable:

• CEIAG Level 3/4
• Experience of working in Education/Training
• Of working with 16 – 18 year olds

If you would like to join our team as our new Pastoral Officer then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!