Director of Sixth Form Behaviour and Inclusion
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG48 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As Soon As
Closing date
19 January 2026 at 9am
Date listed
1 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £74,479.00 - £81,120.00 Annually (Actual) L10–L14 (£74,479 - £81,120) Inner London Pay Scale
Director of Sixth Form Behaviour and Inclusion job summary
Director of Sixth Form Behaviour and Inclusion
Permanent
Full-time
Salary: : L10-L14 (£74,479 - £81,120) Inner London Pay Scale
Take the next step in your leadership journey with Barking Abbey Sixth Form, the highest-performing Sixth Form in Barking & Dagenham. We are proud to be ranked in the top 5% nationally for vocational courses and the top 8% nationally for A Levels.Our commitment to excellence has delivered outstanding outcomes for our students, including:
Over two-thirds progressing to Russell Group universities (national average: 25%)
One-third achieving A*/A, and over two-thirds achieving A*-B
100% success rate for medical-related university applications
Highest number nationally progressing to degree apprenticeships
18 students awarded full or partial scholarships to US universities
If you are passionate about shaping a positive culture, leading pastoral excellence, and driving high expectations, we would be delighted to hear from you.
We are seeking an outstanding, dynamic, and dedicated Director of Sixth Form Behaviour and Inclusion to lead Behaviour Systems, Inclusion, and Pastoral Care within our high-achieving and rapidly growing Sixth Form.
Working closely with the Assistant Headteacher for Sixth Form, pastoral leaders, and Heads of Year, you will ensure that all students receive the guidance, structure, and support they need to thrive both academically and personally. This role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced middle leader ready to make a significant whole-school impact.
We are looking for a motivated and inspiring leader who:
Holds QTS and has recent, significant experience teaching Key Stage 5
Has at least three years of successful middle leadership experience
Demonstrates a strong track record of improving behaviour, attendance, and student outcomes
Is passionate about inclusion, pastoral development, and creating a supportive environment
Thrives within a diverse, ambitious, and forward-thinking school community
Join us in shaping the next generation of young people and contributing to the continued success of one of the most accomplished Sixth Forms in the country. Barking Abbey is an Ofsted Outstanding heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment.
The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.
Barking Abbey celebrates its diversity, and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives whatever your background or history please apply.
In return we offer:
A supportive and encouraging staff team
The opportunity to access a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school
A school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management
A positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible SLT and centralised behaviour systems
We are proud that Ofsted recently judged the school to be Outstanding in all areas. The report states; “This is a large and diverse school where difference is valued. Pupils, and students in the sixth form, are supportive and respectful of each other. Pupils’ conduct is exemplary, both inside lessons and around the school. Leaders have established simple and clear rules that everyone understands. Pupils are focused, engaged and participate well in lessons. Staff feel that their workload and well-being has been carefully considered by leaders. They appreciate their open-door policy”. (Ofsted, February 2024)
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey:
https://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/home/join-us/staff-vacancies/
Barking Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and is an Equal Opportunities Employer. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including Disclosure check, will be undertaken on all successful applicants. Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence checks.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2336 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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