Head of Year

The St Leonards Academy, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 8HH

21 days remaining to apply

Start date details
By arrangement
Closing date
17 April 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 March 2023

Job details

Job role: View all Head of year, department, curriculum or phasejobs
Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern: View all Full timejobs - 37 Hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £35,650 - £38,354

What skills and experience we're looking for

Can you provide support and guidance to our students and their families?

We are seeking a strong pastoral leader to join our Heads of Year team and be responsible for the care of the young people within a specified year group. If you have experience in working with young people and their families from a diverse range of backgrounds and are passionate about well-being and mental health, this is the role for you.

The role

This is an important role securing a complementary service to teachers and other pastoral staff, addressing the needs of students that require support to overcome barriers that impact on their learning both inside and outside of school.

You will:

Be the safeguarding lead for a year group and ensure good communication between families, other professionals, and the school
Rigorously monitor the attendance and behaviour of the students to ensure a school-based action plan is in place to support the most vulnerable
Develop the social, emotional and academic wellbeing of students in collaboration with external agencies

The person

We are looking for a pastoral leader who is highly organised, resilient, and compassionate.

To succeed in this role you will have:

Qualifications relating to mental health, wellbeing or child development
The ability to demonstrate knowledge of and competence against the 9 domains of the Professional Capability Framework at social work level
The ability to develop and establish effective, collaborative partnerships and networks to promote appropriate information sharing

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more information.

What the school offers its staff

We truly value the experience, dedication, and commitment of all our employees and believe in the power of motivated and happy staff. This is why we seek to enrich and reward our employees wherever we can, by offering a wide range of exciting and useful employee benefits. These include:

Automatic annual pay increments
High quality continuous professional development and support for your career progression
A strong commitment to your health & wellbeing including; onsite Wellbeing Champions, designated Mental Health Ambassadors, flexible working opportunities from Day 1, and Employee Assistance programme
Generous public sector pension scheme
Discounts on retail & travel
Cycle 2 Work scheme
Charity giving
Our salaries are aligned to the Real Living Wage, ensuring all our support staff are paid a minimum of £10.90 per hour.
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