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Head of Year (English Teacher)

Ansford Academy, Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7JJ

This job expired on 19 April 2023 – see similar jobs

• 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

At Ansford we believe that through a combination of challenge and care, students will develop the characteristics that will enable them to thrive in the rapidly changing world in which we live. Our Student Support Team work hard to get to know every student as an individual so that we can do everything in our power to make sure they become the best version of themselves possible.

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

This will be a busy and exciting role with huge variety. It will require tenacity and confident in the dealings with students rooted in the belief that barriers to learning can be overcome in order to re-engage them with their learning and with the school 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.

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About Ansford Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 567 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Ansford Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: carolyn.bevan@ansford.net
• Phone number: 01963 350895
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ansford-academy (opens in new tab)

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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