£24,404 – £26,834

Full Time, Maternity Cover

25 November 2024

We are a relatively small 4–16 school, part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, and continuing a journey of improvement that offers great potential for rapid professional development. Reflecting our independent school heritage, we have a reduced school year (180 days for students) with 10 additional days of holidays for teaching staff.
Christ's College has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our Pastoral Support Team to help provide daily welfare and safeguarding support to students and their families. This is a key post within the school which requires dedication and a highly efficient and responsible approach, providing support and guidance to the staff and students on a range of administrative functions. This is a fixed-term maternity cover post from January 2025 until July 2025.
You will provide support to vulnerable students, as well as implementing clearly articulated policies and procedures that ensure all students succeed and thrive.
We are looking for a team member who:

• Is a people person
• Is an effective listener
• Can communicate effectively with students and families
• Is competent in dealing with parental queries and the handling of sensitive information
• Can maintain an atmosphere of calm control in an emergency situation

We have high expectations for our students as they grow and develop, and all our staff provide important role models to them in terms of positive attitude, work ethic and diligence.
Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, we offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 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 scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Closing date: 9.00am on 25th November 2024.
Christ’s College, Sunderland (10–12 miles from Newcastle, Gateshead and Durham; fast access to the northeast coastline, Northumberland and North Yorkshire national parks and major areas of natural beauty; York / Leeds / Manchester 1–2 hours; London 3½ hours).

• Distinct, biblically Christian ethos
• Small, 4–16 all-through school of c. 740 students; typically smaller class sizes
• Reduced length school year of 180 teaching days plus 3 days of CPD (in addition to weekly CPD). Additional two holiday weeks are: one at Christmas and one immediately before the summer break
• Exceptional CPD provision throughout the year and for rapid professional development
• Focus on character education, being part of Emmanuel Schools Foundation

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post will be engaged in regulated activity and is 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 that we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

Christ’s College is a non-selective, co-educational school providing both primary and secondary education to pupils aged 4-16. Founded in Sunderland in 1988 as an independent school, it became a free school in 2012 and has around 740 pupils. Christ’s provides exceptional opportunities to colleagues for rapid professional development in a highly supportive environment. Because of its size, there is great potential for staff to be exposed to whole-school responsibilities at an early stage as part of a team that is committed to making a lasting difference to a community that cares deeply about the education of its young people.
With effect 1 May 2019, Christ’s College joined the now six-school multi-academy Trust that is Emmanuel Schools Foundation (ESF), being one of two all-through schools in the Trust alongside Bede Academy. This sponsorship came with a significant Df E investment in curriculum-led building works during 2019 and 2020. ESF is a strong regional sponsor, making available support to Christ’s from its neighbouring sister schools which are either ‘good’ (The King’s Academy and Bede Academy) or ‘outstanding’ (Emmanuel College), alongside a highly effective central team supporting finance, HR, buildings, IT and other business functions.
The school has undergone extensive building work and modernisation since its founding, and the latest project (a new primary years building) was completed in 2013. Owing to its status as a free school, Christ’s College is state-funded and as such charges no tuition fees for students.

Vision & Values

The vision of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation is to provide schools of character for the whole community, with excellence in academic achievement for students of all abilities within a biblical Christian framework that allows for personal, spiritual, moral and social development. Provision is fully inclusive valuing all students and staff equally. Of great importance for our students is that they would seek truth (finding answers to their big questions about identity, life and its purpose) and develop excellent characters (learning about ethical decision-making, and serving others). We apply Christ’s teaching of servant leadership, and the well-known motto of ‘serve to lead’, as our model and guide.
Principal
Julie Normanton

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