Head of Year
Lord Grey Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 6EWThis job expired on 3 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
18 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Thursday 8.30am - 4.30pm and Friday 8.30am - 4.00pm 43 weeks per year - Term time plus 5 training days plus 20 extra days throughout the academic year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual annual starting salary: £34,048 per annum
Pay scale
- Tove Learning Trust Band J - £35,745 - £39,186 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
HEAD OF YEAR
Permanent
37 hours per week
Hours of Work: Monday to Thursday 8.30am - 4.30pm and Friday 8.30am - 4.00pm
43 weeks per year - Term time plus 5 training days plus 20 extra days throughout the academic year
Tove Learning Trust Band J - £35,745 - £39,186 per annum
Actual annual starting salary: £34,048 per annum
We require, as soon as possible, a well-motivated, committed and energetic Head of Year. Year leaders are totally committed passionate about tracking academic progress and tackling underachievement. The successful candidate will be able to form excellent relationships with staff, students and parents and will be a caring and supportive individual who is approachable and reliable. The successful candidate will model exemplary standards of professionalism and integrity to colleagues, tutors and tutees.
You will be rigorous in monitoring the work of Form Tutors and will be excellent in motivating students to believe in their House ethos. The successful candidate will be competent in analysing data on student progress and will be skilled in early identification of under achievement and will be confident in drawing on a range of strategies to tackle that under achievement. He/she will be a supportive line manager to his/her Assistant Head of Year and will be consistent in application of school procedures, policies, rewards and sanctions.
Our Head of Year will also take on a secondary role in school as a Cover Supervisor supervising students in lessons when the teacher is absent. Heads of Year can cover up to 12 lessons per week.
What the school offers its staff
Join an Academy part of a highly supportive and growing MAT. Lord Grey joined Tove Learning Trust in April 2018 and is situated in Bletchley on the outskirts of the growing city of Milton Keynes. We achieved our GOOD OFSTED status in Summer 2022. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with improving GCSE and level 3 results; a football partnership with Paris St- Germain and winners of MK Inspiration Awards ‘Inspiring Secondary School’ 2023 and MK Educations Awards ‘Secondary School of the Year’; ‘Maths Team of the Year’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ November 2023. The right candidate will join us on our exciting journey and enable us to continue to provide a great education for our amazing students as we prepare them for adult life. We have a strong collegial team who create a real atmosphere of collaboration and community who embody - Lord Grey Can!
Tove Learning Trust
The trust is committed to ensuring that all students achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where students thrive on success. There are seven secondary schools and one primary school in this growing Trust.
Further details about the role
A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet and the application form are all available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website: http://www.lordgrey.org.uk/general-information/vacancies/
Please note the application form and information for candidates booklet are available on the right hand side of the above link. Details on how to apply for this post are in the How to Apply Section of this booklet. Please do look at our recruitment video of our staff talking about working at Lord Grey and our document: Why work at Lord Grey?
Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to hr@lordgrey.org.uk by 9am on Tuesday 3rd September 2024. Interviews to be held on Thursday 5th September 2024.
Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
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About Lord Grey Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Grey Academy website
- Email address
- hr@lordgrey.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01908 626110
Lord Grey Academy is an exciting and vibrant learning community where students enjoy great success in and outside of the classroom. Our Academy motto: Lord Grey Can is important to us as we prepare our students for successful adult lives in an increasingly competitive world.
Lord Grey Academy is popular and is the first choice school locally. We have a strong focus on academic achievement throughout the school and develop our young people to be independent and resilient learners. We are immensely proud of our inclusive ethos and of the positive relationships that we build with parents and the local community. We believe that all students can achieve.
Arranging a visit to Lord Grey Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@lordgrey.org.uk.
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