Head of Sixth Form
Campion School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN7 3QG2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
29 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- United Learning Teachers' Payscales
Additional allowances
TLR1
What skills and experience we're looking for
Campion School is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to join their 6th Form Department as Head of 6th Form, a position that promises both leadership development and the chance to significantly contribute to the department's growth.
The successful candidate will collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team to enhance the department's results, playing a key role in shaping its future while gaining valuable experience and support for their own leadership aspirations within the United Learning Trust.
This role offers a unique opportunity for personal and professional advancement in an educational setting. The role is available from January 2025.
Key Responsibilities
The main purpose of the role is to lead the 6th form management team, tutor team and sixth form teachers to raise the achievement of students in Years 12 & 13.
Leadership and Management
- Support self-evaluation and strategic planning of sixth form provision
- Lead strategic planning in the sixth form
- Ensure that appropriate systems are in place to analyse student performance data
- Lead a target setting process that provides a high level of challenge for students
- Lead an effective engagement, transition, and induction programme to ensure that students are well prepared for 6th form study
- Manage the effective deployment, use and care of budgetary and physical resources including the bursary system
Quality of education
- Lead the development of excellent teaching and learning across the sixth form
- Lead the development of a coherent and ambitious sixth form curriculum that gives all students the knowledge and skills to succeed in life
- Lead the development of high-quality enrichment activities as part of the sixth form programme of study
- Excellent classroom practitioner
Personal development
- Lead provision that ensures that students are ready for the next stage of education, employment or training
- Lead the development of student leadership and student voice opportunities within and beyond the sixth form
Behaviour and attitudes
- Ensure the safety and management of risk of 6th form students and lead the effective implementation of procedures relating to students’ wellbeing in the 6th form including safeguarding and ensure close liaison with the safeguarding team.
- Engender positive attitudes that ensures a strong ethos is present in the sixth form
- Ensure the appropriateness of behaviour and dress of Sixth Form students.
What the school offers its staff
What we offer: More pay, more time, and more support.
- We offer the best pay in the sector - We pay an average of 5% above national scales, with starting salaries of £32,850 for an ECT.
- Three extra INSET days a year for planning.
- Health Cash Plan - We offer a health cash plan giving you money towards essential medical treatment.
- Guaranteed Personal day – 1 paid personal day each year, to use as you want.
- Great training for your career - Excellent ongoing CPD and career development opportunities across the academy and United Learning.
- Wellbeing Support - Access to a comprehensive wellbeing programme, providing support with issues from legal and financial to family and housing; access to free counselling; and other wellbeing support.
- The opportunity to save money across hundreds of major retailers, through Perkbox.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Campion School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1277 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Campion School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- e.hunt@campionschool.org.uk
Our vision is to Create Brilliant Futures for all our children and in doing so develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to become great global citizens. We do this by setting high expectations of each other combined with excellent learning experiences delivered in a caring environment where all will be challenged to stretch their boundaries and achieve more than they thought possible.
Exam results matter. We understand this and encourage all students to aspire to success. That said we strongly believe that the journey is as important as the destination and prepare every student for their next steps whether that be university, college or apprenticeship with the habits of independent learning and critically a love of learning.
Arranging a visit to Campion School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email e.hunt@campionschool.org.uk.
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