Pastoral Lead – Permanent

Bradford
Competitive salary (depending on experience and qualifications)
Full-time, Permanent
Start Date: September 2026 (or sooner for the right person)

Ready to lead, inspire, and make a lasting difference?

We're working with an outstanding secondary school in Bradford that's looking for an experienced Pastoral Lead to join their team on a permanent basis.

This is the kind of school where people love to work, with supportive leadership, excellent behaviour systems, and a genuine commitment to helping every student achieve their full potential.

If you're passionate about student wellbeing, behaviour, attendance, and creating positive outcomes for young people, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

What makes this school stand out?

✅ Outstanding leadership and a genuinely supportive SLT
✅ A welcoming and collaborative staff team
✅ Strong behaviour systems with clear expectations
✅ Excellent CPD and career progression opportunities
✅ A school community that values both staff and students
✅ The opportunity to shape and lead pastoral provision across the school

The role

As Pastoral Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting students' wellbeing, attendance, behaviour, and personal development. You'll work closely with senior leaders, teachers, families, and external agencies to ensure every student has the support they need to succeed.

You'll be:

• Leading the pastoral support for your designated year group or key stage

• Building positive relationships with students, acting as a trusted and approachable role model

• Leading behaviour, attendance, and wellbeing interventions to improve student outcomes

• Working closely with families, teaching staff, safeguarding teams, and external agencies to provide joined-up support

• Managing challenging situations calmly and consistently, using restorative approaches where appropriate

• Supporting vulnerable students and helping remove barriers to learning

• Monitoring pastoral data and identifying students who may require additional support

• Contributing to safeguarding, inclusion, and whole-school wellbeing initiatives

• Promoting a positive, inclusive school culture where every student feels valued and supported

What we're looking for

• Experience in a pastoral leadership role, behaviour, safeguarding, education, youth work, or a similar setting

• Strong knowledge of behaviour management, student wellbeing, and pastoral support

• Experience leading interventions that improve attendance, behaviour, or student engagement

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills

• The confidence to work collaboratively with staff, parents, and external professionals

• A calm, resilient, and proactive approach to supporting young people

• A genuine passion for improving outcomes and creating opportunities for every student

Experience with safeguarding processes, restorative practice, or multi-agency working would be an advantage.

And if you're Thrive trained, even better. If not, no worries, we can help with that too. Protocol Education offers FREE Thrive training, giving you practical strategies to support pupils' emotional wellbeing and helping you make an even greater impact in school.

Ready to take the lead?

If you're looking for a rewarding leadership role where you can make a real difference every single day, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today or get in touch for a friendly chat. We'd love to tell you more about this fantastic opportunity.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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