Pastoral and Mental Health Role Interview Pack

A pack with accompanying templates to help your school setting plan and prepare the interview day, including interview questions and tasks, when recruiting a pastoral or mental health lead. This pack contains guidance that allows you to consider the setup of the interview day itself, but if you're new to recruitment or want to ensure the entire recruitment process is smooth, you may find it help to purchase the Recruitment, Interview and Employment Compliance Guidance Pack alongside this interview pack. 

When you make your purchase, you'll receive a ZIP file containing the whole pack, including:

• Concise 8-page Guidance PDF in full colour containing all the guidance, research and information you need.
• 5 fully editable and easy-to-use templates that can be adapted for your setting. These include:

1. Pastoral and Mental Health Role Job Role Description
2. Pastoral and Mental Health Role Person Specification
3. Pastoral and Mental Health Role Interview Questions
4. Interview Task - Staff Panel
5. Interview Task - Pupil Panel and Icebreaker

Included in this schools pastoral and mental health role interview pack are two different editable interview tasks plus a wide variety of example interview questions and answers so you can find a brilliant pastoral lead, mental health lead or family support worker for your school. The job description and person specification for will also support you in advertising for a new family liason office or pastoral manager so you attract the right candidates. Use these, alongside the interview tasks and pastoral and mental health role interview questions to create a recruitment package that's tailored to exactly what your school is looking for in a new pastoral leader.

While the pack is tailored towards appointing a new pastoral and mental health lead, it can be used to support the recruitment process for any similar roles with a focus on pupil wellbeing, mental health and pastoral care, including family support workers, nurture teacher, pastoral manager, family liaison officer, welfare officer or similar. 

Headteachers, trust leaders, senior leaders, members of the governing body and trustees who lead recruitment processes will find this time-saving pack useful. This pack is also helpful for aspiring pastoral and mental health leads wishing to develop their understanding of the interview process. 

Planning and leading an effective recruitment process ensures you've put your school in the best position possible to recruit a new pastoral and mental health lead who's going to support the wellbeing, mental health and development of your school's pupils. Using carefully selected interview questions and tasks will help to ensure this is a positive experience for both those on the panel and those applying for the role, meaning your new pastoral leader has the best possible start in your setting.

Key questions answered:

• How could an interview day for a pastoral lead be structured?
• What interview tasks could be used when recruiting a new mental health lead?
• What interview questions could a new school welfare office be asked during the interview process?
• Where can I access more support on the recruitment and post-recruitment process?

If you're new to the recruitment process or are looking to build your understanding of how to tackle recruitment through each stage of the process, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, pre-employment and employment compliance, then you'll find the following pack useful.

>>> Recruitment, Interview and Employment Compliance Guidance Pack

If you're looking for support with the recruitment or staff induction processes, we've got multiple packs available to help you. Best of all, you can get 20% off each item if you buy 3 or more resources about recruitment and induction, so why not see what's available?

If you're new to the recruitment process or are looking to build your understanding of how to tackle recruitment through each stage of the process, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, pre-employment and employment compliance, then you'll find the following pack useful.

• Recruitment, Interview and Employment Compliance Guidance Pack

If you're looking to recruit for multiple school roles, you may find the following packs supportive to help you plan interview days for those roles too:

• Headteacher Interview Pack
• Assistant and Deputy Headteacher Interview Pack
• School Business Manager Interview Pack
• Head of Year, Phase or Key Stage Interview Pack
• Head of Department Interview Pack
• SENDCo Interview Pack
• DSL and Safeguarding Role Interview Pack
• Class Teacher with Subject Leadership Interview Pack
• ECT and Class Teacher Interview Pack
• Teaching Assistant Interview Pack
• Midday and Wrap-Around Care Role Interview Pack
• EYFS Practitioner Interview Pack
• Attendance Co-ordinator Interview Pack
• Pastoral and Mental Health Role Interview Pack
• Outdoor Learning Role Interview Pack
• School Administrator Interview Pack
• Premises Caretaker and Site Manger Interview Pack

To support your new staff member with induction into your setting, why not have a look at the following help guidance pack:

• Staff Induction Pack

To provide meaningful professional development from the beginning of your new staff member's employment, skills audits are a valuable way to amplify the induction process, identify CPD opportunities and support the appraisal process.

• Skills Audits