Pastoral care in schools

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Anyone here do this as a career? Curious to know what it's like

The people I know with this role are teachers, and are also either head of year or head of key stage.

So the answer to what it's like would probably be "busy, overworked and under pressure".

I have a pastoral role in a secondary school and I am not a teacher.
My role is slightly specialised in that I work with SEN students in a special school. My role includes things like supporting with attendance, and behaviour management, being a Designated Safeguarding Officer, liaising with other agencies like SCS, CAMHS, EWOs, MASH teams, feeder schools, etc, building relationships with parents and carers and supporting them in various ways, and taking a lead with transition.
I love my job. It is one that has grown massively and I am lucky enough to be fairly well paid for what I do. It does come with a large amount of responsibility though and you need to be quite resilient. It is a role quite often done by teaching staff in many schools.

Thank you so much for the responses, I'm torn between teaching at primary level and a pastoral role, I would love to work in schools but I think more so in a mentor type role supporting students with issues which are impacting their education. However, I have no experience and no clue how I get into this type of job.

Im a head of year, so pastoral is part of my wider teaching role. We have a pastoral assistant. Her job is less mentoring and more working as an assistant to the heads of year. She will take statements when an incident occurs, listens to pupuls who are upset, attends PEP meetings alongside the HOY deals with collecting work for pupils who have been excluded or sent to isolation. It is not as well paid as teaching

I am a PSW in a secondary school as part of the wellbeing team. More and more secondary schools are getting wellbeing teams in place. You could look at an ELSA role if you wanted more primary age children although secondary schools have ELSA support workers as well.