Pastoral Care Manager

Please note that this role is due to commence in January 2026

35327 - 47744 excellent benefits

Those Huge Small Victories

For children with complex challenging needs the level of care and education must go above and beyond. Thats what drives us here at Witherslack Group. With our high staff-to-child ratio and in-house clinical teams were proud to have won a reputation for excellence and market leading OFSTED ratings.

Get out what you put in

As a Pastoral Manager youll take the lead in enabling your team to meet our young peoples emotional needs. Our young people have challenging complex emotional and behavioural needs Autistic Spectrum Disorder/Social Emotional and Mental Health and need more support than most. Youll make sure they get it by applying high standards of care. It means working with families and developing programs for each individual young person. With careful assessment and planning youll create a positive learning environment where every young person can thrive.

With experience working with young people with BESD or ASD in a school or care setting you will understand our young peoples developmental needs and what pastoral care entails. A good listener who can motivate your team you inspire young people to achieve. Flexibility good organizational skills and the ability to successfully manage a team means youll be an asset to the Witherslack Group.

One of the best environments in SEND

Opening in Spring 2026 Felden Hall School is a purpose built brand new state of the art school for up to 115 pupils. The school provides education for pupils aged 5 - 16 and caters to children with a wide range of needs including autism and social emotional and mental health needs. This new exciting opportunity serves Hemel Hempstead and the wider communities you are at the heart of its development. Our aim is to ensure that every pupil has an outstanding educational experience with individual pupil progress and care at the heart of what is offered.

What we do for you

We know youre going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the education sector. With us youll get to bring learning to life and make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people plus youll get:

• Training: A full induction and on the job training

• Holiday: Youll work hard at WG so youll be rewarded with full school holidays

• Progression: If career development is your thing most of our head teachers and leaders have been promoted from within our group

• Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance check out our benefits
  here

• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance

• Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts

• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities check out our schools here

• A recommend a friend scheme that offers a 1000 bonus every time

• Contributory pension scheme matched up to 5%

Bring your whole-self to work

Our young people come from all walks of life diverse backgrounds and with different needs and our workforce reflects that diversity so that our teams can engage encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. Youll be more than a Pastoral Manager youll be able to connect with our pupils because of:

• Minimum of 3 years experience with ASC ADHD or SEMH pupils and with working with families in challenging circumstances and expertise to support and resolve difficulties

• Experience of multi-agency work with an understanding of legislation policies and guidance around safeguarding and child protection

• NVQ 3 in Care/Level 2 Teaching Assistant Qualification

• Ideally - Leadership related Qualification

• Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)

• Experience of staff appraisal/performance management and supervision

Interested in joining us

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want with a purpose-led employer in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

For a full job description and person specification please see the attached document.

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To view our Child Protection Policy please visit the Parents and Carers section of this School/Learning centre. You can find all our Schools here.