Pastoral Manager

Pastoral Leader and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) – Monarch Education (Partnership with Large Secondary School, Central Birmingham)

Location: Central Birmingham
Position: Pastoral Leader and DSL
Contract: Full-Time / Term-Time Only

Are you an experienced Pastoral Leader with a strong commitment to student wellbeing and safeguarding? Monarch Education is partnering with a large, dynamic secondary school in Central Birmingham to recruit a dedicated Pastoral Leader and DSL to lead student support and safeguarding efforts across the school.

About the Role:
As a Pastoral Leader and DSL, you will be responsible for overseeing the pastoral care and well-being of students, ensuring a safe, supportive, and inclusive school environment. Working closely with staff, students, and families, you will develop strategies to promote positive behaviour, attendance, and mental health while maintaining robust safeguarding protocols.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the school’s pastoral programme to support students’ emotional, social, and behavioural development.
• Acting as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), managing safeguarding concerns, and ensuring compliance with safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Providing support and guidance to students facing personal, social, or behavioural challenges.
• Developing and implementing intervention strategies to improve attendance, behaviour, and student engagement.
• Building positive relationships with students, staff, and parents to promote a safe and nurturing school community.
• Leading and supporting a team of pastoral staff and mentors.
• Ensuring staff are trained and up-to-date with safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Monitoring and reviewing student progress and well-being, and liaising with external agencies as needed.

Monarch Education are proud to be a leading recruitment specialist in the Education industry. We are passionate about our people and the services we provide to our candidates. Working with Monarch Education will give you access too:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Affinity Academy – continuous learning and development!
• A Refer a Friend Scheme giving you a bonus of up to £200
• Exclusive vacancies within local Schools and Multi Academy Trusts
• Competitive daily rates

To learn more about us and what makes Monarch one of the leading education recruitment providers nationwide – please visit our website – About Us – Monarch (monarcheducation.co.uk)

Monarch Education are committed to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and welcomes applications regardless of sex, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, religion and belief pregnancy and maternity or disability as well as adhering to strict Safeguarding procedures.

Affinity Workforce Solutions and Monarch Education are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expects all its temporary workers to share these commitments. As this role involves working with children on a daily basis, regulated activity is that any successful applicant’s applications will, accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to 2 employment references, an enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK check.

This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. Monarch Education operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.

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