Head if Year

The Bishop David Brown School, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5RF

27 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  13 October 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  16 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year or phase
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £58,573 to £66,119 (L5 - L10)

Head if Year job summary

Bishop David Brown is a thriving secondary school dedicated to providing a high-quality education for our students. We are seeking an exceptional and dynamic leader to join our pastoral team as Head of Year. As the successful applicant, you will: Deliver engaging and effective lessons for Key Stage 3 and 4 students in your designated subject area. Continuously develop your teaching practice and leadership skills. Provide leadership, pastoral care and guidance as Head of Year for a designated year group.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About The Bishop David Brown School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 805 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Bishop David Brown School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-bishop-david-brown-school

Bishop David Brown is passionate about providing a well-rounded education for its students, not only academically but culturally and artistically. This is provided through its diverse and rich curriculum that makes a major contribution to the students’ moral and cultural development.

We are proud of the school’s cultural and ethnic diversity and the vibrant community that this has created. Links with our local community are vital and the school works closely with parents/carers, other schools and local organisations to achieve this.

The students and staff are committed to transforming our school into one which is exceptional. At Bishop David Brown School we want all students to be challenged in order to achieve academic success. We aim to give students opportunities and experiences to learn beyond the classroom and we strive to ensure all our students feel happy and safe. This has been reflected in our most recent 2019 Ofsted inspection which resulted in a ‘Good’ result.

Bishop David Brown is part of the Unity Schools Trust which is a Multi-Academy Trust formed in September 2015 by the partnership of The Magna Carta School and Bishop David Brown School. The stated objective of Unity Schools Trust is to achieve Excellence through collaboration. The Trust aims to instil a love of learning by the full engagement of all of its community- students and staff- in the process of acquiring and applying knowledge and engendering the positive habits which support future development.

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