Argentine Coloccini has not played since suffering a back injury at the end of February but is available for Saturday's trip to West Ham United which comes a week after a 6-0 thumping by Liverpool that left them one place above the drop zone.
"He's the captain of this club and sadly we've missed him for a lot of the season in terms of injury and one thing or another. But he's fit and well," Pardew said on the club website.
"You need your leaders and you need people who are experienced.
"You can't get carried away and think that this is a fight. This isn't a fight. It's not a boxing match - it's a game of football so you need to have a calm head and you need to play," he added.
"And one thing that Colo obviously brings is that calmness to the team and I think that is very important where we are right now."
"As far as I'm concerned, the group is very much together," he said.
"We're pulling together, trying to get a result, and the fact that we have a lot of French players and some language difficulty has been kind of torn up and made to be something else.
"There's no problem and we go to the next game."
