Head of Year (FTC - 31.08.2025)
King Alfred's, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9BYDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
1st Janaury 2025
Closing date
17 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
13 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £7,900.00 - £7,900.00 Annually (FTE) n/a
Head of Year (FTC - 31.08.2025) job summary
King Alfred's Academy are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, resourceful and committed Head of Year - TLR 2:3a (FTC - until 31st August 2025).
Pastoral responsibilities:
- Promote a positive and inclusive school culture, address negative behaviours, and create a safe environment.
- Monitor student behaviour, work with teachers and other members of the pastoral team (particularly Student Managers and the AHOS) to identify struggling students, and communicate regularly with parents.
- Act as liaisons between teachers, parents, and other key stakeholders, communicating student behaviour to them, and ensuring that the needs of their year group are met.
- Develop and implement strategies for positive behaviour, manage behavioural issues, and liaise with parents to ensure they are aware of school policies
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of pastoral interventions and programmes using data to inform future planning.
- Encourage and motivate students to take responsibility for their learning and ensure they are prepared to learn at the start of each lesson by prioritizing punctuality.
- Assist with the management of detentions.
- Lead and manage a team of form tutors, providing pastoral support as needed.
- Support with the organisation of events and activities for the year group, ensuring they meet students' needs and interests.
- Work closely with the Assistant Head of Year to oversee students' independent learning engagement.
- Provide support to students, and staff who manage students, during social time where possible, depending on the specific requirements of the role.
Leadership and management responsibilities:
- Provide empathetic professional support for staff and students across sites.
- Support and communicate regularly with student managers to deliver effective pastoral care, and assist the Assistant Head of Site in the planning and implementation of any new or enhanced processes or procedures.
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders.
- Ensure that high expectations of students and staff are maintained across sites.
- Supporting with the running of detentions.
- Support the Leadership team to embed a culture of safeguarding across sites.
- Support the House team in their planning of activities (including charitable and fundraising work as well as leadership and enrichment opportunities) to further enrich our educational experience.
- Communicate effectively with parents to address concerns, provide support, and celebrate success.
- Support colleagues with effective behaviour management, including improving attendance and punctuality as necessary.
- Ensure that our high expectations of behaviour and student conduct are maintained.
- Support student engagement in education through a combination of rewards, sanctions, parental engagement, and regular communication with staff.
- Collaborate with other colleagues to provide enriching opportunities and extra-curricular activities for students in the year group, with a special focus on the character award scheme.
The successful applicant will be committed to securing the best outcomes for all students within the Academy, as well as being part of wider curriculum offered to all students. We are looking for someone to inspire our students and promote a love for this subject both in and out of the classroom.
King Alfred’s Academy is a friendly, ambitious and vibrant school packed full of energy, opportunity and choice. Rated “Good” by Ofsted, our mission statement is "Opportunity for All"; something we believe in passionately and strive to deliver to our staff and students each day.
Our interview process may involve supervised teaching of a micro-lesson, a student Q&A and a panel interview including a presentation on a pre-advised topic.
Benefits of working at KAA include:
- Full support for your professional development and future training needs (CPD)
- A commitment to recognise previous, continuous service.
- A commitment to offer flexible working whenever we can and to support the work life balance of our employees
- A 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- A Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Opportunity to attend school residentials trips such as Normandy or Barcelona to skiing in Austria, Canada and USA
- Complimentary fruit, tea and coffee and subsidized lunches
- Eligible for Blue Light discount card
- Optional gift on your birthday
- Free parking
- Free Eye Care Voucher
King Alfred’s is proud to be part of the Vale Academy Trust, a network of schools nurturing opportunities and career development. Collaboration is an important benefit of working at King Alfred’s, with students and staff benefitting from our work with Trust schools and other schools locally and regionally.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Jon Smart on 01235 225700
King Alfred’s Academy is a member of the Vale Academy Trust. The Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check.
All staff will be expected to promote fundamental British values as part of a school that values diversity and individuality, exemplified in our values of ‘one community, individual minds, creating futures.
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
King Alfred’s Academy and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About King Alfred's
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1682 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- King Alfred's website (opens in new tab)
King Alfred’s is a learning community with a passionate, talented and dedicated staff, new and refurbished learning spaces for 21st century learning, the offer of an outstanding sixth form ranked amongst the best in the country, and a wealth of extra-curricular trips, visits and activities for students to enjoy as part of their wider learning outside the classroom.
Furthermore, King Alfred’s has an enviable reputation for providing outstanding quality and breadth of pastoral care to all students through an experienced and dedicated team of pastoral staff and student managers.
This enables students to develop as individuals with confidence and well-being throughout their school career. This strength of King Alfred’s was, quite rightly, recognised by inspectors in the recent Ofsted inspection when inspectors noted that: ‘Pupils’ welfare and safety has the highest priority. Personal, social and health education plays a key part in ensuring that pupils are happy, safe and very well cared for.’
Most importantly, for pupils making the transition from Year 6 to secondary education, West Site offers a bright, welcoming campus where they can make the change safely and happily into secondary education. The advantage of the bespoke KS3 site is that it offers a unique environment for them to make new friends, get to know a dedicated team of tutors and teachers, and adjust to the new phase of their educational lives. It is an environment in which our core values of Responsibility, Respect, Tolerance, Courage and Determination will be seen, experienced and lived consistently every day.
What is very evident throughout the school, is the impressive spirit and desire amongst the governors and staff to ensure that King Alfred’s Academy continues to grow and flourish to become the outstanding school of choice for the local community and beyond and that we truly can offer "Opportunity for All".
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