Achievement Leader

City of Derby Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE24 3AR

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  11 January 2026 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  24 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Pay Scale 5: £28,931 to £31,355 FTE (£26,277 to £28,478 pro rata)

Achievement Leader job summary

Who We’re Looking For

We are seeking a caring, dedicated professional with experience supporting children and young people.

You will be:

• Driven, approachable, and empathetic
• Calm, confident, and resilient
• Organised and reliable
• Culturally sensitive and committed to the highest standards of professionalism

What Makes Us Special

• A caring, inclusive culture that celebrates diversity
• Strong relationships and a positive, respectful environment
• Exceptional pastoral support for students and staff

Benefits You’ll Enjoy

• Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential support
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working options
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Well-being initiatives, including flu vaccinations
• Nationally agreed terms and conditions of service
• Excellent transport links

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Champion and uphold the academy’s vision, values, and ethos.
• Implement pastoral, safeguarding, attendance, and behaviour procedures effectively and proactively.
• Ensure students are safe, feel supported, and receive high-quality pastoral care.
• Build and maintain positive, professional relationships with parents and carers.
• Identify, assess, and respond to students’ individual needs to promote their well-being and success.
• Collect and analyse information, lead meetings, and maintain accurate and timely records.

MAIN DUTIES

Pastoral, Safeguarding and Well-being

• Develop strong, supportive relationships with all students
• Provide appropriate pastoral support that is well-matched to the needs of students, dealing with immediate and underlying issues to prevent problems recuring or escalating
• Ensure students’ voices are heard and that they know what support is available
• Ensure students are safe and feel supported
• Administer first aid to students and staff as required
• Remain vigilant for signs of bullying and safeguarding issues
• Implement the school’s safeguarding systems confidently and consistently including safe and well checks

Promoting daily good attendance, punctuality, positive behaviours and attitudes to learning

• Ensure the school is a warm, welcoming, inclusive place that students want to attend
• Have high expectations for all students’ attendance, punctuality, behaviour, uniform, attitudes and progress
• Actively drive the school’s pastoral, attendance, punctuality and behaviour routines and rotas
• Respond to challenging behaviours in a calm and proportionate manner, use de-escalation strategies to help students self-regulate, and apply clearly defined consequences consistently and fairly when needed
• Support the implementation of the schools’ rewards systems
• Collect, collate, and share accurate information and evidence relating to investigations, suspensions, readmission and reintegration meetings, risk assessments, managed moves, alternative provision placements and permanent exclusions as required
• Ensure students engage with meaningful reflection and restorative behaviours
• Monitor students’ attendance, punctuality, behaviour, uniform and equipment, and intervene as required

Parental engagement and events

• Maintain positive relationships with parents/carers, acting as their main point of contact
• Ensure that issues relating to safeguarding and well-being, attendance, punctuality, behaviour, attitudes and progress are communicated clearly to parents/carers
• Ensure that parent/carer views and knowledge of their child(ren) are included in decision-making about support for their child(ren)
• Maintain a good working knowledge of statutory frameworks and guidance to provide accurate advice to parents/carers, and make them fully aware of their legal responsibilities and possible consequences where there are concerns
• Lead meetings and reviews with parents/carers relating to safeguarding, well-being, attendance, behaviour and the support available
• Lead admissions meetings and ensure that new student induction is effective
• Support the delivery of transition processes and community events
• Support with educational trips and visits from external agencies/speakers
• Collate and provide work for absent students where appropriate
• Ensure parent/carer details are accurate on the school’s management information system 

Identifying, assessing and meeting needs, and reducing barriers to achievement

• Drive the school’s work relating to inclusion to ensure that students’ needs are being identified, assessed and met by liaising with colleagues and:
• Proactively gathering information to better know and understand their students
• Administering assessments and screening tools
• Creating evidence-based student profiles and support plans
• Delivering interventions based on students’ needs
• Attending meetings with pastoral colleagues, SENDCO, Safeguarding Manager, DSL and SLT to discuss and address students’ safeguarding, well-being, attendance, punctuality and behaviour
• Preparing information for and engaging with multi-agency meetings as required
• Monitoring and reviewing support and interventions and adapting as necessary

METHODS OF WORKING - The post holder must:

• Maintain strict confidentiality and adhere to data protection legislation and associated Trust policies at all times.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of, and commitment to, safeguarding and child protection, maintaining an awareness of relevant procedures and responsibilities.
• Comply with the Trust’s Health and Safety Policy and ensure safe working practices in the performance of all duties.
• Uphold and promote the principles of the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy in all aspects of the role.
• Adhere to all other relevant Trust and school policies and procedures.
• Undertake any training and professional development necessary to effectively carry out the duties of the post.
• Perform any other reasonable duties commensurate with the level and responsibilities of the role, as required by the Trust.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About City of Derby Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 913 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: City of Derby Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/city-of-derby-academy-derby

At the City of Derby Academy, we believe that academic outcomes are important and our expectation is that we will achieve national progress standards. However, we do not measure the success of our students by their examination results alone. Students access a balanced curriculum and we continually strive to develop characteristics such as self-confidence, self-belief and self-esteem so our students are fully prepared for life in modern Britain.

We believe that when the school, parents/carers and students share high expectations every child will achieve great things. This includes having an excellent attitude centred on respect, high standards of appearance, good manners, full attendance and punctuality.

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