• Permanent Contract

• Grade 5, SCP 12-16

• Salary £30,024– £33,699

• Actual Salary £22,684 – £25,460

• 32.5 hours per week

REQUIRED TO START: ASAP

Location: Fairhaven Primary School, DY8 5PY

The Trustees are seeking to appoint a Pastoral Officer with HLTA responsibility to work at Fairhaven Primary School.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to work as a HLTA with pastoral responsibilities who:

• Is child-centred, and able to support the senior leadership team with managing and delivering pastoral support to pupils who need particular help to overcome barriers to learning

• For full details of the post please see attached job description and person specification

We can offer you:

• Friendly, hardworking staff and children

• Committed governors with wide experience

• Excellent parental support and community links

• An opportunity to be part of a caring team who work well together to take the school forward

• Trust wide working

• Commitment to further professional development

Schools in the Trust:

• St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School, Penn, Wolverhampton

• St Benedict Biscop CE Primary School, Wombourne, South Staffordshire

• Woodfield Primary School, Penn, Wolverhampton

• All Saints’ CE Primary School, Trysull, South Staffordshire

• Oak Meadow Primary School, Wolverhampton

• Fairhaven Primary School, Wordsley, Dudley

• Gnosall CE Primary Academy, Stafford

• Haughton CE Primary Academy, Stafford

• Woodseaves CE Primary Academy, Stafford

• Christ Church CE Primary School, Walsall

• St Paul’s CE Primary School, Stafford

For further information or to discuss the role, please contact: 01384 818385

Closing date for applications: Friday 28^th November 2025 by 12pm Midday

To apply: please complete the application form and equality and diversity recruitment monitoring form and submit to jobs@stbartsmat.co.uk quoting reference SBMAT337 in the subject line of your email. Further information is available at www.stbartsmat.co.uk/vacancies 

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS, Prohibition List, Barred List, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable professional references.

It is an offence to apply if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. For further information, please refer to the Trust's policy on ex-offenders.

Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies for all schools within St Bartholomew's CE Multi Academy Trust are available on the respective schools' websites. Links to all of our schools are available from the homepage.

With effect from September 2022 and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, shortlisted candidates may have their publicly available social media profiles (where applicable) checked by the Trust for posts going back up to 5 years and those candidates will therefore be expected to provide their social media “handles/platforms” if shortlisted.