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Director of Year
The East Manchester Academy, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M11 3DS11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
27 August 2026
Closing date
7 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
26 June 2026
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
- £32,067.00 - £35,075.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 7, Points
Director of Year job summary
About Us
The East Manchester Academy is a vibrant and innovative educational community in the heart of Beswick. We are a part of the Greater Manchester Education Trust. Together, we create lives of opportunity.
‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023)
‘The sense of community is tangible in this inclusive school.’ (Ofsted 2025)
This is an exciting opportunity to join The East Manchester Academy, a vibrant and ambitious school at the heart of a diverse community. Following our positive Ofsted inspection in March 2025—where we achieved ‘Good’ overall and ‘Outstanding’ for Personal Development and Leadership and Management—we are continuing to build on our rapid improvement journey.
We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.
Please visit our website to learn more about us and contact: recruitment@temac.co.uk if you would like to arrange a visit to the academy prior to application.
About the Role
We are seeking a committed and highly motivated Director of Year to lead and manage the pastoral provision for a designated year group.
This is a key leadership role within the academy, focused on ensuring high standards of behaviour, attendance, and student support. You will play a central role in shaping a positive culture, ensuring that all students are supported to succeed and achieve the academy’s vision.
Key responsibilities include:
Leading the year group with a visible, proactive presence across the school
Ensuring high standards of behaviour through consistent implementation of the Behaviour for Learning policy
Monitoring and improving attendance, punctuality, and student engagement
Managing pastoral systems including behaviour tracking, interventions, and student support plans
Coordinating assemblies, form time programmes, and rewards systems
Building strong relationships with families, external agencies, and key stakeholders
You will lead a team of staff within the year group, ensuring consistency of practice and high expectations, while working collaboratively with senior leaders and faculty teams to improve outcomes for all students.
The role also includes oversight of pastoral care, ensuring students’ emotional, social, and academic development is effectively supported, and that barriers to learning are identified and addressed promptly.
About You
You will have absolute commitment to wanting the best for children and young people, along with tact, discretion and diplomacy in all interpersonal relationships with parents/carers, students and colleagues at work. You will be self-motivated and have a personal drive to complete tasks to the required timescales and quality standards, you must have the flexibility to adapt to changing workload demands and new school challenges that may involve working beyond prescribed hours on occasion.
You will be a passionate and resilient professional with a strong commitment to improving the life chances of young people.
You will:
Have experience in a pastoral, behaviour, or student support role, ideally within a school setting
Demonstrate strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills
Be able to build positive relationships with students, families, staff, and external agencies
Show a commitment to high standards of behaviour, attendance, and student wellbeing
Have a proactive, solution-focused approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
You will be a highly visible role model within the academy, demonstrating professionalism, resilience, and a relentless focus on supporting students to succeed.
We are looking for someone who shares our commitment to inclusion, safeguarding, and ensuring every student feels supported, challenged, and able to achieve their full potential.
Full details about the role and the qualifications, experience, and attributes required can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Why Join Us?
The successful candidate will join an academy that is relentless in its drive to ensure our students and staff alike achieve their very best and our proud of themselves. We are proud to serve our diverse and inclusive community and wish to appoint a practitioner who shares our commitment to young people in challenging circumstances who believes that excellent leadership can leverage high levels of performance and remains optimistic in the face of adversity.
We value our colleagues and also offer the following:
A minimum 20% PPA allowance for all staff
Joint PPA time for departments to plan collaboratively
Cycle2work scheme
Gym membership
Employee Assistance Programme
Health Cash Plan
A comprehensive CPD programme to support pedagogical and leadership development
A low stakes approach to QA to ensure teachers keep getting better
Strategic partnerships with external organisations to support staff development
A genuine commitment to wellbeing and effective workload management
A Trust for Every Child and Every Colleague
We believe that great futures are built by great people. Colleagues who work in our schools will experience the same focus on care and guidance, opportunity and challenge, so that they can deliver an exceptional education to our young people. They will become the very best practitioners through bespoke support and opportunities to learn professionally, to collaborate, to lead innovation and to advance their career with us.
We strive for excellence in everything we do. At GMET, every role, from teaching to support, is valued. You’ll be supported and empowered to grow within a trust where our core values guide our work with learners, colleagues, families, and the wider community.
We invest in our people. As part of GMET, you’ll benefit from a wide range of employee benefits designed to support your health and wellbeing, help you save money, and make your salary go further including:
- A warm, inclusive, and supportive school culture
- High expectations for all learners and staff
- A strong focus on wellbeing and professional development
- Opportunities to innovate and collaborate across the trust
- A commitment to equity, diversity and accessibility
- Tailored CPD and coaching
- Trust-wide networks and learning communities
- Leadership development pathways
- Access to wellbeing resources and flexible working options
How to Apply
We are committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the wellbeing of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All roles are subject to:
- Enhanced DBS checks
- Reference and identity verification
- Compliance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The East Manchester Academy is committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the well-being of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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 The East Manchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1031 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The East Manchester Academy website
‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023).
This is an exciting time for the academy and to help transform the life chances of students within East Manchester. As you will see from our recent Ofsted inspection report, we have driven rapid improvements to all areas and are ready to accelerate further. We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.
The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.
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