Head of Year
Caldew School, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA5 7NNThis job expired on 12 May 2025
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
12 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR 1a (£9782)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic leader to join us as a Head of Year in September 2025. A Head of Year should be supportive and encouraging to the students in their year group, promoting good behaviour, academic achievement, attendance and taking the lead in championing their year group. They should be an inspirational leader who can enthuse and lead the year group and pastoral team. They will work in close partnership with our parental community and use data to implement strategic improvement within their year group.
This is an ideal opening for an experienced and committed teacher to head the team, build on the strategies already in place but also introduce new ideas to ensure all our students achieve their full potential.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting time to join Caldew School. We have had a significant investment from the Story Group of companies that is enabling us to improve our facilities, provide high quality professional development for our staff and give our students opportunities, experiences and support that will raise their aspirations and achievement.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Retail discount Scheme
Commitment to safeguarding
All roles involve regulated activity with children. You should not apply if you are on the Children’s Barred List.
Caldew School is committed to the protection and safety of its pupils. Our Safeguarding Policy can be found using the following link:
https://www.caldew.cumbria.sch.uk/our-school/policies-other-key-documents/
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, online searches will be carried out on shortlisted candidates. The successful applicant will be required to undertake a criminal record check via the DBS.
Caldew School is an equal opportunities employer.
Note: References may be sought on receipt of applications
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Caldew School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 977 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Caldew School website
- Email address
- h.vasilic@caldew.cumbria.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01228 710044
Caldew School is a popular, rural 11-18 mixed comprehensive school situated south of the city of Carlisle with a catchment area that extends to the fringe of the Lake District. We have 1000 pupils on roll including a Sixth Form of 160. The school is heavily over-subscribed and the roll is steady.
We have a good and improving track record of achievement at all examination levels, good resources and facilities and a rich programme of visits and extra-curricular activities.
This is an exciting time to join Caldew School. We have had a significant investment from the Cumberland Support Trust that is enabling us to improve our facilities, provide high quality professional development for our staff and give our students opportunities, experiences and support that will raise their aspirations and achievement.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people in everyone's responsibility at Caldew School and we take this very seriously. We adopt an approach which is child-centred. This means that all staff at Caldew School consider, at all times, what is in our students' best interests. The Safeguarding Team work within the school to ensure that all of our students are safe, happy and thriving. All staff have a duty of care to make sure students are safe and this means that information may need to be shared with other agencies and organisations to make sure that our students and their families get the best possible support.
Our Ofsted inspection in June 2022 graded Caldew as ‘good’. However, we are not complacent and we know that there are areas where we need to do better.
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