Guidance Leader
Uxbridge High School, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 2PR17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Immediate
Closing date
21 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- UHS Associate Pay Scales | SCP18 - SCP30 Actual salary £32,410 - £39,857 pa
Guidance Leader job summary
PROUD TO MAKE SUCCESS HAPPEN
Uxbridge High School is a vibrant, forward-thinking school that celebrates each student's academic, social, and emotional growth. We take pride in our diverse, committed student body, supportive staff, and strong relationships with the wider community. As a truly comprehensive and multicultural school, we embody the spirit of modern Britain, valuing every child's unique journey and success.
THE ROLE
The school is seeking to recruit a Guidance Leader to work with the Head of Learning (Year) and leadership team to co-ordinate the best possible educational experience for particular cohorts of students, namely a House (including students from Year 7 to Year 11). You will support and liaise with a group of tutors; you will work closely with external bodies such as social services and the education welfare service; you will arrange and attend parents’ evenings and other parental meetings; you will support the organization and delivery of assemblies and house group events; and will be the first point of call for all pastoral issues relating to students in your house.
You will ideally be educated to a degree level, with up-to-date safeguarding training, and have experience working in an educational environment and responsibility for the welfare and development of groups of children. You will have good organisational, interpersonal, and communication skills (both oral and written) and be confident in public speaking in front of large numbers of students.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.
36 hours per week, 42 weeks pa (term time plus five inset days, plus fifteen additional days to be worked, which will include some evening and holiday work by mutual agreement with the Leadership Line Manager)
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.
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 Uxbridge High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1358 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Uxbridge High School website
Uxbridge High School is an ambitious and dynamic converter academy with over 1,200 students aged 11 -18.
We have much to celebrate at Uxbridge High School including a committed and focused staff, outstanding facilities, strong relationships with the community and school partners, supportive Governors and a thriving Sixth Form.
We are delighted to be recognised by Alps in the top 20% of UK schools, celebrating outstanding Sixth Form student progress at A-level. We value the successes of every child, whatever their starting point. All of this takes place within a truly comprehensive and multicultural school that reflects life in modern Britain.
Our school values have been developed by students and staff, and form the basis of our ethos and culture.
All members of our school community subscribe and work towards always being: Positive, Respectful, Open-Minded, Unique, Determined: PROUD to Make Success Happen.
School location
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