Head of Year 13
Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 5JQThis job expired on 10 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
29 August 2024
Closing date
10 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 March 2024
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
Subjects
- Computing, German, Psychology
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 hours week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
+ TLR 2b (£5,352.00)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Can teach their own subject to a high standard at all key stages, cover lessons and take up other responsibilities effectively as a member of our Teaching Support team.
- Can provide strong, efficient and pastorally sensitive leadership to a year group of students and a team of Form Tutors, and also work effectively as a reliable colleague alongside other Pastoral Leaders
- Has credibility with both pupils, students and staff as someone who can manage pupil and student situations well, and who does so with confidence, but also Christian humility and educational purpose
- Communicates clearly, carefully and with a good understanding of different audiences; speaks and writes with honesty and integrity; offers support, challenge and encouragement with both professionalism and hope
- Is a team player and makes good day-to-day decisions, as well as being able to contribute to long-term strategic thinking about pupils and students’ personal development and pastoral care
- Is knowledgeable about how to work effectively with young people and draw the best out of them in a school setting
- Liaises well with parents, carers and other adults involved in the care of young people in education
- Is able to contribute actively to the school as a Christian community, in support of both its Christian character and its academic purpose
What the school offers its staff
Archbishop Tenison’s Church of England High School is a long-established school with an excellent reputation in the community. Our school motto is ‘Academic excellence for each person in a Christian community’ and we aim to instill these values in everything we do at Tenison’s. We take the personal development of pupils, students, and staff seriously.
Pastoral care is a strong and important part of the school’s Christian educational vision. We seek to form a cohesive learning community, to educate the whole person and to provide the whole curriculum; to teach with understanding, both of the subjects we have studied and the pupils and students before us, and to learn with tenacity, humility and hope. Every teacher is a Form Tutor. Every year group has its own Head of Year. Every day starts and ends with Tutor Time. The weekly tutor programme includes a whole school assembly, a year group assembly, two tutor assemblies and a taught session of Personal and Social Development.
All Heads of Year belong to the school’s Pastoral Leadership Team, along with the Head of Pupil Welfare, and three Senior Pastoral Leaders. In addition to this, the school has a Pupil Support Room and an Assistant Chaplain. We enjoy good links with the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education and the Borough of Croydon. We work closely with other external agencies and providers of services for young people. We are part of a significant initiative to improve young people’s mental health. We are also a trauma-informed school.
We are looking for a someone if possible with a German, Latin, Geography, Psychology or Computing teaching background with suitable experience of working pastorally within a secondary school. The successful candidate will begin with Year 13 students.
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.
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About Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 764 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- andrj@archten.croydon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 020 8688 4014
Archbishop Tenison’s Church of England High School is a long-established school with an excellent reputation in the community. Our school motto is ‘Academic excellence for each person in a Christian community’ and we aim to instill these values in everything we do at Tenison’s. We take the personal development of pupils, students, and staff seriously.
Arranging a visit to Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email andrj@archten.croydon.sch.uk.
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