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  • Start date details

    Jan 2025 or earliest available start date

  • Closing date

    6 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    9 December 2024

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

£27,556.00 - £30,087.00 Annually (Actual)

Deputy Year Leader job summary

Role: Deputy Year Leader

Grade: Grade 8

Salary: £27,556 - £30,087

Benefits: Generous pension, free parking

Hours: 38.35 per week

Contract: Permanent, Term time only (39 weeks per year plus 5 INSET days)

Reporting to: Year Leader

Job Purpose

This non-teaching role supports Year Leaders to provide targeted help for students to overcome barriers to learning, ensuring success for all students.

The Organisation

Matthew Arnold is a thriving community school on the outskirts of Oxford, looking to appoint a School Counsellor. It’s an oversubscribed, inclusive 11-18 school with over 1,300 pupils, serving urban and rural communities. We focus on improving outcomes for all students, with a special emphasis on the progress of disadvantaged students.

Main Responsibilities

  • Work with Year Leaders to support students facing performance/attendance/behaviour issues, particularly social skills, anger management, and self-esteem

  • Keep detailed records of interventions and track progress with Year Leaders

  • Investigate breaches of school rules, support restorative processes

  • Collaborate with Year Leaders, SENCOs, School Counsellor, and AHT Student Welfare to provide effective support

  • Maintain records and confidentiality

  • Be part of the Child Protection safeguarding team

  • Assist in students’ educational and social development by offering curriculum and pastoral support

  • Liaise with outside agencies like CAMHS, Social Services, and Police to make referrals and ensure proper support

  • Oversee outside agency visits and provide feedback periods (e.g., Year 6 to 7, 7 to 8)

  • Offer support to parents/carers/families in collaboration with Year Leaders

  • Promote collaboration between families and school staff on students’ progress

  • Participate in relevant training, professional development, and supervision

  • Support students in the withdrawal room or after suspension to reintegrate

  • Assist with persistent absence issues

  • Work with students struggling to follow their timetables.

  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Deputy Year Leader

  • Support restorative reflection & restoration for students

Requirements

  • GCSE Maths and English grade C/4 or above

  • Knowledge and understanding of current issues in relation to young person wellbeing

  • Awareness of current Child Protection and safeguarding procedures, including legislation, and mental health and well-being initiatives

  • Knowledge and understanding of current issues in relation to young person wellbeing

How to Apply


To apply, complete the application form on My New Term. For questions, contact Jeremiah at hrwest@acertrust.org.uk.

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.

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About Matthew Arnold School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1285 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Matthew Arnold is a popular and successful school on the edge of Oxford with an excellent local reputation. We are focussed on improving outcomes for every student and are committed to staff development to support this.

The school is part of the Acer Trust family of schools so there is opportunity to share expertise and experiences and enjoy professional development with more than one school. Our induction programmes give strong support to NQTs.

We offer defined-benefit public sector pension schemes (Teachers Pension, Local Government Pension Scheme), a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme, good bus links, car and cycle parking.

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