Salary: Grade 5, £29,635 - £32,075 per annum pro rata - Approx pro rata £9,480 - £10,260 p/a (0.31989 FTE)

Part-time - 15 hours per week, term time only

Avanti Services Ltd is seeking an exceptional candidate to join our school as a Spiritual Wellbeing Lead at Avanti House Primary School. This is an opportunity for a gifted individual with excellent interpersonal skills to inspire, nurture and support our pupils on their spiritual journey. Working closely with teaching and key pastoral staff, the Spiritual Wellbeing Leads will help strengthen and deepen the spiritual ethos of the school.

The staff at Avanti House Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff who work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.

Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment for our students and we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all students enjoy learning and surpass expectations.

What will you do?

• Foster the holistic development of students and staff—emotionally, spiritually, and mentally—aligned with the school’s ethos and values.
• Offer one-to-one emotional and spiritual wellbeing support, while facilitating reflective discussion groups for pupils, staff, and parents.
• Collaborate with teaching, pastoral, and inclusion teams to enhance the school’s overall wellbeing and chaplaincy provision.
• Lead assemblies, create spiritual and wellbeing resources, coordinate liturgical events, and deepen engagement with local faith communities.

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

What are we looking for?

• Empathic listening skills, excellent communication, organisation and presentation skills
• Ability to act upon own initiative
• A warm, friendly attitude that make person approachable for students, staff and parents
• For our faith schools: Practicing Krishna Consciousness and have a deep understanding of its beliefs and practices.
• Experience of leading faith related / spiritual activities in an educational setting
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.