Pastoral Support Advisor in Wellbeing

Shrewsbury International School, Riverside

Job Opportunity

Position: Pastoral Support Advisor in Wellbeing

Department: Pastoral

Salary and Benefit:

• Shrewsbury International School Non-QTS scale will be applied;
• Medical Insurance with Cigna (Thailand).

General:

Shrewsbury International School Bangkok is one of South East Asia’s outstanding international schools. It has two campuses in Bangkok; Riverside and City.

Riverside campus currently has 1,850 students enrolled from Early Years to Sixth Form. The School boasts exceptional examination results and particular strengths in the creative arts, design and sport. The Riverside campus enjoys a spectacular setting on the banks of the Chao Phraya River in the heart of Bangkok where the teaching environments are spacious, fully equipped and dramatic. In September 2021, the Senior School at Riverside expanded its capacity adding a range of spectacular new facilities. 

There is ready access by road and boat, which provides an easy and quick link to Bangkok’s Skytrain and the city centre. The link with Shrewsbury School UK (www.shrewsbury.org.uk) is taken very seriously and, year-on-year, develops into a world class educational partnership.

City Campus opened its gates in August 2018 and builds on the success of Shrewsbury International School Bangkok Riverside. There is regular liaison between the two campuses, with graduates from City Campus progressing to Shrewsbury Riverside at the start of Year 7. (www.shrewsbury.org.uk)

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will:

• report to the Assistant Principal (Students);
• maintain a caseload and facilitate children and young people’s learning and development through mentoring by identifying learning and development needs, planning for how these needs will be addressed through mentoring and reviewing the effectiveness of mentoring;
• contribute to the identification of barriers to learning for individual children and young people and provide them with a range of strategies for overcoming the barriers;
• develop strategies that support children and young people to accept responsibility for their behaviour, thus supporting them to change previous behaviour. Supporting in the transformation of young people’s attitudes towards school and their relationships with peers and adults;
• develop, agree and implement a time bound action plan with groups and individual children and young people and those involved with them based on a comprehensive assessment of their strengths and needs and to maintain accurate records of work for each identified student;
• support children and young people’s successful transfer and transition in learning and development contexts;
• assist in the identification of early signs of disengagement and contribute to specific interventions to encourage re-engagement;
• contribute to the protection of children and young people from abuse;
• develop and maintain appropriate contact with the families and carers of children and young people who have identified needs and to keep them informed about the student’s needs and progress, and to secure positive family support for the student;
• act as a point of contact for accessing specialist support and to build up a detailed knowledge of support available;
• operate within agreed legal, ethical and professional boundaries when working with children and young people and those involved with them;
• meet regularly with the designated line manager to report on progress of identified students and to review own contribution to the school;
• liaise closely with the staff in school to ensure that everyone understands and supports the strategies being used by the Wellbeing Team to develop the student’s skills for learning and learning behaviours;
• work closely with other identified senior members of staff.
• track progress and identify outcomes and needs as required by the school;
• attend training and professional development sessions;
• undertake other duties, appropriate to the post, as may be required from time to time.