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Head of Achievement Year 8/9
Highcliffe School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4QD7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2027
Closing date
20 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - U3
Additional allowances
TLR 10,174
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Head of Achievement leads the students, tutors and the pastoral leads within their year group. They hold a key position in the school by being responsible for and upholding the ethos, standards, well-being, progress, community cohesion and development of the students and staff within their year groups. They lead, advise, encourage and promote colleagues and students in the maintenance of high standards and provide an informed and responsible link to parents and the wider community. They maintain excellent levels of communication with parents and outside agencies which are based on mutual understanding, trust and respect.
To lead the Deputy Head of Achievement, the team of Tutors, and two non-teaching Pastoral Leads who together make the Year 8/9 team, to achieve the school’s goals of all students achieving highly, having excellent attendance, and learning in a respectful, mutually supportive and purposeful environment; while promoting the values of tolerance, respect for diversity, and community-engagement intrinsic to the Highcliffe School identity.
What the school offers its staff
Professional Development
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
HISP MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in the commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check, social media check and positive references.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Highcliffe School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1519 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Highcliffe School website
- Email address
- aparsons@highcliffeschool.com
- Phone number
- 01425 282323
Highcliffe is a remarkable school with a special atmosphere. We are very highly respected in our community, with whole generations of families coming here for over 50 years from Christchurch and the New Forest. Former students, current students and their parents frequently speak of their powerful emotional bonds to our school lasting a lifetime. Always popular, and usually over-subscribed, in the last two years our identity and success has attracted a rapidly growing number of admissions requests for Year 7. Although we have raised our PAN twice in three years, demand for places still exceeds availability. This is a result of our caring and aspirational ethos combined with our engaging curriculum and excellent extra-curricular opportunities, although our track record of exam success is surely another factor. Our students are lovely young people to work with who respond enthusiastically to good teaching and are keen to learn.
Former students go on to work in international finance, law, education, politics, engineering, medicine, science, and in the Paris fashion houses, or as great chefs, carers, artists, musicians, mechanics, gardeners and much more – but not before they have thrived at Highcliffe academically, creatively and socially. We have an excellent record of success placing students into the top universities in their chosen field. Every year for the last 10 years at least one of our Sixth Form students have, for example, gone on to study at either Oxford or Cambridge universities. We have successful programmes for students accessing careers in medicine, the law and engineering. We are an outwardly focused community with extensive school links in Germany, France, Spain and Japan including a unique exchange programme with a school in Hiroshima.
Our teaching staff are highly experienced, knowledgeable professionals who work together superbly. Our SEND, pastoral, clerical, financial, technical and site staff, who form a good team, are also extremely good at their jobs and committed to the school’s success. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive environment in which to work or learn, located in a great part of the country. As part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust we offer our team extensive opportunities for professional development; direct collaborative working with Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford and more widely across the Trust region; and career progression routes associated with our development as a regional Hub for school improvement and professional development delivering NPQs, the local ECT programme, the Science Learning Partnership. We are a happy and upbeat school, characterised by warm and trusting relationships between staff and students; one big family. We recently completed a £1.8 million capital project improving heating and hot water, and in December 2022 successfully entered the School Rebuilding Programme to replace 18 classrooms with brand new buildings.
Arranging a visit to Highcliffe School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email aparsons@highcliffeschool.com.
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