Head of Year
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQThis job expired on 20 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
20 March 2023 at 9am
Date listed
9 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, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Teachers' Main/Upper Pay Scale £31,750 - £43,685
Additional allowances
TLR2 (3b) £7,368
What skills and experience we're looking for
Education/Training
Essential: Graduate
PGCE or other appropriate training
Understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
Desirable: Relevant professional development
Teaching in a comprehensive school
Experience as a Tutor
Experience of delivering training and mentoring
Experience of planning and organising events including off-timetable experiences
Experience of working collaboratively with a wide range of organisations and leading multi-agency initiatives and meetings
Strategic leadership of interventions to raise achievement
Leading initiatives across a key stage
Relevant Skills/Aptitudes
Essential: Good motivator and inspiring role model
Good team worker, listener and communicator
Very good classroom teacher with ability to share good practice with colleagues
Appropriate ICT skills and ability to analyse data
Good behaviour management strategies with the ability to disseminate good practice
Good rapport with students, parents and professionals supporting the school’s work
Ability to get the best out of students, helping all to reach their academic potential
Ability to address large audiences, both of students and adults
Proactive, visible presence around the school, supporting both Duty Staff and Site Teams
Good people-management skills when working with colleagues and external organisations
Desirable: Involvement in activities outside the classroom to motivate students
Experience of monitoring and evaluating student performance and of strategic thinking
Safeguarding:
Essential: Motivation to work with children and young people
Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours and situations with students and staff
What the school offers its staff
In addition to salary, allowance and Teachers' Pension Scheme, we can offer our staff:
- Accommodation in our on-site boarding house
- Discounts at local gyms, swimming pools and spas
- Staff social events including parties, quiz nights, pop-up socials and pub trips
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff sports - football, squash, cricket and walking weekends
- Free eye tests and flu vaccinations
- Employee Assistance programme
- Free on-site parking
- On-site catering facilities
- Discounts at local pubs, shops and car garages
- Priority for places with the on-site Nursery
- Staff recognition initiatives
- Long service awards
Commitment to safeguarding
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2276 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Williams's School website
- Email address
- h.tait@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01844 210621
Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.
We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.
We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.
The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.
Arranging a visit to Lord Williams's School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email h.tait@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk.
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