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Schools Outreach has been recruiting, training and employing full-time pastoral care specialists (PCS) for both primary and high schools across the UK since 1988. Specialists can be based full-time in one secondary school or shared between, perhaps, two primary schools within a community which in the primary sector obviously reduces the cost to each school.
The aims of a pastoral care specialist are-
- To establish and develop confidential friendships with the pupils and all who care for them
- To encourage the pupils to understand their potential for wholeness and balance within their personalities
- To enhance self-worth in each young person, especially in those whose sense of their worth is poor
- To offer to each young person the precious gift of time and unconditional commitment
- To fulfil a preventive role by the encouragement of wise decision making
In general this means that a PCS is based full-time in a local school where they work one with one and in groups with children who have self-referred or been referred by teachers, parents or other childcare professionals. The emphasis is child-centred rather than problem-centred.
It is our policy never to settle for second best when appointing an individual to work with children and young people, so we establish and maintain exceptionally high standards in both recruitment and training. It is also our policy not to recruit and train someone until three years’ full funding has been promised.
Download pdf documents below:
Providing pastoral care? (121 kb)
PCS job description (226 kb)
Child Protection Policy (253 kb)
High School Case Study (145 kb)
Primary School Case Study (154 kb)
High School Statistics (325 kb)
Primary School Statistics (349 kb)