Head of Year 12
Harris Rainham Sixth Form, Rainham, RM13 9XADeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
September
Closing date
10 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 February 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
- £37,913 - £55,494 + TLR Available
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS (Outer London) + £1,500 Harris Allowance (£37,913-£55,494) + TLR
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a highly motivated, inspiring and proactive Head of Year 12 to join our academy.
The successful candidate will:
- Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and,ideally, management training
- Demonstrate successful teaching of GCSE at good or better level
- Have experience of initiation and effective management of change
- Show evidence of raising achievement in present post and showing good value added for groups
- Have knowledge of current curriculum developments in subject and their implications
- Have good knowledge and understanding of current educational thinking
- Show good understanding of how children learn and how to raise standards of achievement
- Have good communication skills in speech and writing
- Display excellent organisational skills
- Be able to build and sustain professional standards and relationships with students
- Be able to contribute towards creating a safe and protective environment
What the school offers its staff
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includesour Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS,a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Further details about the role
The purpose of your role will be ensuring high standards of behaviour of students in the given Year Group, identifying areas for improvement of their behaviour and leading the improvement of their behaviour:
- Acting as the first point-of-contact for students and their families regarding their attendance, behaviour, personal development and welfare.
- Undertaking investigations and responding to Duty Principal requests for students in the given Year Group.
- Liaising with other leaders, including (among others) the whole school lead for Personal Development, Literacy and Numeracy, Careers and E-Safety, Enrichment and Healthy Schools, Safeguarding and Inclusion to ensure a rich programme of personal development, behaviour and welfare education.
- Liaising with other leaders on pastoral and behaviour matters pertaining to students in the given Year Group.
- Identifying and supporting a caseload of students from the given Year Group through the design and implementation of appropriate interventions.
Your areas of responsibility will include:
- Leadership of day-to-day behaviours of students
- Leadership of pastoral, behaviour and welfare interventions for students in the given Year Group
- Leadership of attendance and punctuality for students in the given Year Group
- Leadership of student pastoral development programmes
For a full list of duties, please download the Job Pack.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Harris Rainham Sixth Form
- School type
- Free School, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth_form_or_college
- School size
- 95 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harris Rainham Sixth Form website
- Email address
- careers@harrisfederation.org.uk
- Phone number
- 02082537777
Harris Rainham Sixth Form is a new sixth form serving the community of Rainham and Wennington. We are a dedicated group of staff who are deeply committed to serving our community and ensuring our students are on the path to the best universities and careers. We have built a school on our core values of Curiosity, Compassion, Commitment. These values are at the heart of our school and all that we do.
What makes us different:
Our values are at the centre of our school and aren't simply a slogan on a website.
We deliver a knowledge rich curriculum that is developed by our staff to meet the needs of our students. We teach beyond our subjects specifications through our electives, guilds and co-curricular programs.
Our leaders are role models, they lead by example, admit mistakes, welcome opinions and love honest conversations.
We are a standalone sixth form but work closely with Harris Academy Rainham an 11 – 16 Academy. This gives us the strengths of an 11-18 school and the benefits of a sixth form only environment.
We are a staff united against educational disadvantage with a fierce determination to show our students the world beyond Havering.
What we can do for you:
Great career progression both within our Academy and the Federation.
Excellent professional development opportunities. We focus our training on the latest educational thinking and research and we believe our people are our greatest asset.
Meaningful measures to manage workload – no graded observations, early finish on a Friday, no onerous marking requirements but sensible feedback policies.
Bespoke support and line management from excellent leaders across the school.
Opportunities for fantastic professional growth due to our close working relationship with Harris Academy Rainham and other academies across the Federation.
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