6 days remaining to apply

  • 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

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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
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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