Head of Year (English Teacher)
Ansford Academy, Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7JJThis job expired on 19 April 2023
Start date details
To be agreed
Closing date
19 April 2023 at 9am
Date listed
27 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time all year round
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Teachers Main Pay Scale
Additional allowances
+TLR2B £5,021.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Degree or equivalent relevant to post
- QTS
- Teacher of English
- Enjoy working with young people
- Commitment to the principles of inclusion
- Approachable
- Committed to collaborative working, trust and team building with staff, students and the community
- Have a clear personal vision for pastoral care
- Ability to inspire and motivate
- Good communicator
- Reflective and clear-headed thinker who makes considered judgements
- Resilient
- Persistent with the ability to work hard
- Flexibility and creativity
- Aspiration to be a Senior Leader
- Experience as a subject leader
- Strong classroom teacher with a proven record of success
- Evidence of consistently good or outstanding teaching
- Build, support and work as part of a high performing team
- Confident in the use of data to inform targeted interventions for students
- Able to manage staff, systems and resources effectively on a day-to-day basis
- Committed to the need for continued professional development
- Awareness of the importance of self-evaluation as a basis for school improvement
- Knowledge of the Ofsted inspection framework and its relevance to faculty leadership
- Ability to act as a coach for colleagues in order to improve standards of pastoral support
- Full commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
What the school offers its staff
- Comprehensive training through the National College
- Employee wellbeing service
- Teachers Pension
- Working in a beautiful, rural campus
Further details about the role
The team work closely with our SEND team to ensure that all students, whatever their starting point, experience success whilst at Ansford. The Student Support Team is led by our Pastoral Assistant Headteacher and is currently made up of the Heads of Year and two Pastoral Support Leaders who support the work of the team in all aspects of Behaviour and Attendance, Intervention and Support.
The team is united by a shared purpose and vision: all are striving to see our students unlock their potential and secure happy and successful futures; develop the skills to become motivated lifelong learners and, perhaps most importantly, become people who are capable of forming and maintaining high quality relationships.
The team has four key objectives:
- support the whole school priority of improving student behaviour and conduct
- support the whole school priority of improving attendance
- support students and families at a time of increased need and in context of a reduction of capacity within external agencies
- live out the school's vision of placing strong relationships at the heart of our community
Commitment to safeguarding
Ansford Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ansford Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 543 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ansford Academy website
- Email address
- carolyn.bevan@ansford.net
- Phone number
- 01963 350895
Ansford is an inclusive school of around 600 students where the whole child is valued and striving for positive relationships, as well as challenge, are at the heart of our work. We are at an exciting time in our development journey and the school is well positioned to continue improving so that we can offer our young people the very best educational experience that we can, with every student enabled and supported to achieve the very best they are capable of, whatever their starting point.
Arranging a visit to Ansford Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email carolyn.bevan@ansford.net.
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