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  • Closing date

    16 February 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    2 February 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase

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Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£37,667+ TLR1A £9,272 - £57,313 + TLR1A £9,272

Head of Year 7 job summary

Required from 1 September 2024

 

Location: Putney, Southwest London

Salary: Ark Main 1 to Upper 3 (Inner London) £37,667-£57,313 depending on experience

TLR: TLR 1A: £9,272

Working pattern: Full time

Contract: Permanent

 

About the role:

We are seeking to appoint a Head of Year 7.  You will be responsible for ensuring outstanding pastoral support for students, fostering a culture that enables all students to maximise their achievements across the spectrum of school life. You will be instrumental in our mission to provide every student, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life.

You will:

  • Have experience of pastoral leadership.
  • Foster a strong sense of school community and ethos among both staff and students.
  • Establish positive working relationships with parents and carers of the year group and communicate regularly with them.
  • Act as a positive role model to staff and students, communicating the highest expectations of behaviour, attendance and punctuality.
  • Implement and reinforce a consistent behaviour policy and system of rewards and sanctions, characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, and respectful relationships.
  • Be committed to Ark Putney’s ethos of high expectations.

About our school:

Ark Putney Academy opened in September 2012 as part of the Ark network in the London Borough of Wandsworth.  We’re a mixed school with 885 students, ranging from year 7 through to sixth form.  We adopt a holistic view to educating young people. Through our commitment to inclusion, equality and attainment, we prepare every student to be a pillar of any community.

 

In our 2022 Ofsted inspection we were rated ‘Good’ in every category with real strengths in teaching and learning, curriculum breadth and personal development.

 

We offer:

  • Tailored professional development based on the needs of the teacher and department to ensure everyone achieves their full potential.
  • We take the wellbeing of our staff seriously as we recognise that teaching can be a challenging profession. Therefore, staff receive regular rewards and recognition for effort.

Click here to view the job description: Head of Year 7 JD.pdf

To apply please visit www.arkputney.org/vacancies

 

Closing date for applications is 9.00am on Friday 16 February.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 22 February.

The academy reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applicants.

 

Find out more about us by visiting www.arkputney.org. For questions about the position or an informal discussion, please contact the Principal, Alison Downey at  a.downey@arkputneyacademy.org. For any other queries regarding your application, please contact Julie Rickard, Principal’s PA at j.rickard@arkputneyacademy.org

 

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. To meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.   Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link. 

 

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential.  We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click this link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitment to safeguarding

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies.

Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.

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About Ark Putney Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
878 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Ark Putney Academy opened in September 2012 as part of the Ark network in the London Borough of Wandsworth. We’re a mixed school with 950 students, ranging from year 7 through to sixth form. Our student body is diverse and we celebrate all backgrounds and cultures. We have a strong ethos, results are excellent and every year we send large numbers of students to some of the best universites, including Oxbridge.

We adopt a holistic view to educating young people. Through our commitment to inclusion, equality and attainment, we prepare every student to be a pillar of any community.

In our 2022 OFSTED inspection we were rated ‘Good’ in every category.

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