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Pastoral Leader - Travel, Food and Drink

About the Role

Leeds City College are seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic and learner-focused Pastoral Leader to join our successful and high-performing School of Travel, Food and Drink, based at our Printworks campus.

This newly created role has been established to strengthen the pastoral support available across the School and further enhance the experience, wellbeing, and success of our large and diverse learner cohort. As a key member of the team, you will play a central role in ensuring every learner receives the guidance, support, and encouragement they need to thrive both personally and academically.

Working at the forefront of our pastoral provision, you will lead the Pastoral Team in delivering an outstanding learner experience. You will ensure learners receive timely and effective support with wellbeing, safeguarding, financial support, personal development and any barriers that may impact their learning, creating an environment where every learner can achieve their full potential.

Leadership is fundamental to this role. You will provide clear direction and support to the pastoral team, ensuring that all statutory and College compliance requirements are met, pastoral processes are consistently applied, and learners receive a high-quality, responsive service throughout their journey.

You will drive improvements in learner attendance by developing and implementing the department’s attendance strategy, using proactive monitoring, robust data analysis and early intervention to achieve and exceed the College’s 95% attendance target. Working collaboratively with curriculum leaders, teaching staff and support services, you will embed a culture where excellent attendance is recognised as fundamental to learner success, while providing strategic oversight of attendance across Fundamental Skills and Skills Builder provision through consistent monitoring, targeted interventions and effective action planning.

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational leader who is passionate about learner success, committed to raising aspirations, and dedicated to delivering an exceptional pastoral experience that enables every learner to achieve, progress and succeed.

What You Will Do

Teach across a range of Fundamental Skills and Skills Builder lessons, ensuring outstanding teaching, learning and assessment takes place and that learners are fully supported to make strong progress.
Take ownership of attendance across the department, developing and implementing effective strategies to consistently improve attendance and ensure it meets and exceeds the College target of 95%.
Role model outstanding safeguarding practice across the department, ensuring safeguarding procedures are consistently applied and understood by all staff.
Be a visible and present member of the pastoral team, providing day-to-day leadership, support and reassurance to staff and learners across the department.
Lead on the implementation of behaviour policies and the monitoring, analysis and reporting of attendance data, using insights to identify trends, drive early intervention, improve learner engagement, and maintain high standards and consistent expectations across all learning environments.
Hold regular meetings with Maths, English, vocational and pastoral teams to communicate priorities, share updates, ensure consistency of practice, and support a cohesive learner journey alongside continuous improvement across the department.
Develop and embed proactive attendance improvement strategies, working closely with curriculum teams, tutors and support services to remove barriers to attendance.
Develop and support an effective enrichment programme that enhances the learner experience and contributes to personal development, behaviour and attitudes outcomes.
Attend all Pastoral Lead meetings, actively contributing to the wider Printworks PDBA team and ensuring consistency of practice and shared best practice across the provision.
Provide leadership for attendance processes relating to Fundamental Skills and Skills Builder provision, ensuring consistent approaches across all learner groups.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of pastoral systems, processes and interventions to ensure high-quality learner support across the department.

About You

Holds a Level 3 qualification in relevant area and willing to progress to Level 4/5.
Experience of developing PSHE within a pastoral role in FE sector.
A confident, visible and respected leader within the pastoral team, setting high expectations and leading by example through consistently high standards of professionalism, safeguarding practice and behaviour management for both staff and learners.
A strong track record of improving learner attendance, engagement and personal development outcomes across a large and diverse cohort.
Passionate about creating a positive and purposeful learning environment where learners feel supported, challenged and able to succeed.
Able to demonstrate strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate, support and develop pastoral staff while working effectively with curriculum teams, support services and senior leaders to deliver high-quality provision.
Confident in implementing and monitoring behaviour and safeguarding policies consistently across the department.
Experienced in leading or contributing to meetings, ensuring clear communication, accountability and consistency of practice across teams.
Highly organised and committed to continuous improvement, effectively managing priorities while driving high standards across pastoral provision.

Benefits

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us

Leeds City College is one of the largest further education institutions in the country and is one of the biggest providers of apprenticeships regionally.

We provide a vibrant and diverse learning environment, delivering excellent and innovative education which is supportive, inspiring and life changing. Leeds City College’s values put students first and are at the heart of everything the college does.

We are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our staff. You’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow. We offer a wide range of job vacancies, and our large size means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.

SAFEGUARDING

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity.

Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.

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