Deputy Head of Year
Orion Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC Scale 7, points 21-25 (40 hours, 40 weeks)
Deputy Head of Year job summary
Based at Orion Eden Park
Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
About the role
The Deputy Head of Year will support the leadership of their specific year group, this role will act as a key link between home and school relationships. Working closely with the pastoral teams in school and relevant external agencies.
Key Responsibilities
Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students for who you are responsible and with whom you come in to contact
To provide professional support for a Year Group, which secures success and continuous improvement in teaching and learning, ensures a high-quality education and school experience for all learners
Working with appropriate middle and senior leaders to manage and/ or implement and track behaviour intervention for students depending on the severity of need
Under the leadership of the Head of Year, to work with school staff, the inclusion team and external agencies, to provide support and guidance for students in a year group. This will develop a culture of success, praise and celebration of achievement.
Supporting the School/ Trust’s Vision and Values across a Year Group ensuring every student has a sense of belonging, identity and pride.
Be a key member of the team, which holds significant responsibility for managing the efficient and effective day-to-day operation of the Year Group.
Supporting with Year Group attendance and punctuality and actions to improve them
Supporting on CAF processes and actions related to them, including with external agencies.
Ensure Parents/ Carers are updated regularly via telephone calls, letters and/ or emails to inform them about their child’s behaviours and welfare
Be highly visible during line-ups, transitions and break times
Attend all relevant meetings
Act as a mentor/ key worker for certain pupils
Liaise with all relevant partners across the school to ensure early identification of pupils at risk of disengagement
To act as part of the strategic Safeguarding Team and ensure that safeguarding is effective and child protection actions implemented
Where appropriate ask teachers for feedback on students
Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Commitment to safeguarding
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Orion Eden Park
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1303 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Orion Eden Park website
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.
Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.
We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.
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