Assistant Vice Principal: Pastoral Care and Personal Development

About This Role

As an Assistant Vice Principal: Pastoral Care and Personal Development, you will take on the responsibility of leading the pastoral care function, ensuring that students experience a culture where they feel safe, welcomed, and supported in their journey. You will provide leadership to the middle pastoral leaders, ensuring that tutors are empowered to build meaningful relationships with students, address barriers to learning, and maintain effective communication with parents. Through your oversight, you will ensure that every student begins their day feeling confident, ready to learn, and proud of their place in the school community.

Responsible to the Vice Principal: Behaviour and Attitudes/Personal Development for:

The leadership of the pastoral care function which supports students to feel welcome and a sense of belonging:

• Line management of the Heads of House who will oversee tutors in their houses to ensure that from the start of the day students are made to feel welcome, are equipped and ready to learn and that communication with parents is effective and regular.
• Oversight and quality assurance of the tutor programme to ensure that tutors know the students in their tutor groups well, address any barriers to being ready for the day quickly and provides students with opportunities to develop SMSC.
• Ensuring that tutors and Heads of House regularly recognise, celebrate and reward students for their endeavours and achievements through lesson drop ins, the merit system and timely communication with parents/carers.
  
  

The oversight of the taught Personal Development curriculum for all year groups:

• Ensuring high quality intent and implementation of each core theme of Personal Development Curriculum including line management of the Personal Development Lead to ensure the effective planning of and deployment of resource to personal development lessons.
• Ensuring that assessment of learning demonstrates that gaps in student knowledge are being addressed so that core knowledge is secure and built upon over time, supporting the Personal Development Lead to adapt the curriculum where necessary.
• Line managing and supporting the Careers Advisor to ensure that all students including those whose provision is offsite or have a bespoke curriculum offer have access to high quality careers advice and guidance at all key stages that goes beyond the Gatsby Benchmarks.
  
  

The Provision Of a Programme Of Wider Opportunities That Serve To Encourage Joy And Endeavour, Raise Aspirations, Broaden Perspectives, Provide Opportunities For Leadership, Representation And Service To The Community Including

• Engaging students in a vibrant and busy wider opportunities programme of visiting speakers, online events, house events student leadership programme and non-residential off-site visits that serve to raise aspirations and broaden students’ perspectives. Oversight, planning and management of the termly co-curricular programme and annual residential programme supported by the Heads of House.
• Oversight of community focused events and activities that ensure students contribute to the local community positively so that there is at least one community service event each term and that Grace College students are represented at external community leadership events to promote the positive reputation of the college beyond the school gates, supported by the Heads of House.
• Oversight of the Good Morning Grace and Friday Review Broadcasts so that students have access to a broad and engaging range of content that promotes SMSC development, British Values and the protected characteristics, increasing student participation in these broadcasts over time supported by the Heads of House.
  
  

Benefits

Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Daily lunch allowance
• Free parking
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
  
  

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.