Head of Year (Achievement Coordinator)
Bristnall Hall Academy, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68 9PADeadline is today
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,440.00 - £33,369.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Salary Scale 25 - 29
Head of Year (Achievement Coordinator) job summary
We are seeking to appoint a motivated and organised Head of Year (Achievement Coordinator) who will work well as part of a team and truly want the best from our students. If you enjoy working with young people and would like to help them prepare for their future working lives, we would like to hear from you.
Due to our increasing PAN and student numbers, we are excited to offer the opportunity to join our academy as our staff body continues to grow and support our larger year groups of 220 students. This is an exciting time to join our academy as we celebrate our Outstanding Academy Inspection in November 2023. Inspectors stated that Bristnall Hall Academy is a “truly inclusive and harmonious school” and that “everyone is proud to be part of a close-knit school community that is working together with a common purpose.” Our staff “feel valued” and our classrooms “ooze enthusiasm and productivity”.
We are seeking to appoint an individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to inspire, enthuse, develop and support students and colleagues, with a real drive to enhance students’ experience of secondary education. The ideal candidate will be an ambitious professional with experience of working with students in areas of challenging behaviour, special needs and achievement. This role will involve the coordination of all aspects of learning and the development of independent learners within a year group in order to lay the foundations for a successful academic career at Bristnall Hall Academy and beyond. The successful candidate will join an academy which is dynamic and inspiring; creating a culture of outstanding success amongst our students. To succeed, you will have a good academic standard of general education to GCSE grade C/4 in English and Maths, be a creative thinker, be resilient and have a good sense of humour. We are keen to secure a high calibre professional who can make a telling contribution to our team. The department is part of a well led, mutually supportive team; there is a very strong commitment to improving standards. The appointed candidate will work collaboratively with colleagues and will be supported by a strong SLT.
Why choose Bristnall Hall Academy? We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.
We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life.
In return, you can expect fantastic Professional Development opportunities, a comprehensive employee benefits package, shopping discounts, cycle-to-work and gym schemes, cinema tickets and an employee assistance programme.
Bristnall Hall Academy is sponsored by Academy Transformation Trust, whose mission is to transform learning, aspirations and opportunities for their pupils and the communities in which they live. This commitment also extends to staff who are key to their success.
To learn more and apply online, please see our application pack for more information and visit our careers page.
The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.
Commitment to safeguarding
Bristnall Hall Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and successful applicants will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024.
We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Bristnall Hall Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1082 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Bristnall Hall Academy website (opens in new tab)
Bristnall Hall Academy is part of the Academy Transformation Trust family of academies.
Bristnall Hall Academy is an 11-16, unique community academy with an extensive offering supported by a strong reputation for partnerships and inclusivity. We are a thriving and oversubscribed academy with a well-established reputation for outcomes for students. In 2022, our Progress 8 of +0.84 made us the highest performing Academy in Sandwell again.
We are on a journey of rapid transformation toward outstanding and this is indicated in our latest Ofsted inspection in November 2021, where Ofsted validated the significant progress Bristnall Hall Academy has made beyond the realms of Good and not instead, has ‘sufficient evidence of improved performance to suggest that it might be judged Outstanding’.
We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.
We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life. Whilst other schools and academies often comment on their struggles with recruiting quality, specialist staff, Bristnall Hall has retained and recruited successfully. From this term, we have even more outstanding teachers who will further strengthen our remarkable team.
We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.
We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life.
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