12 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    April 2025

  • Closing date

    3 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    14 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share)

Contract type

Fixed term - 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover

Pay scale

MPR/UPR/TLR

What skills and experience we're looking for

Head of Year

Fixed Term – maternity cover

MPR/UPR/TLR

Required for April 25

A successful, popular and highly regarded school with over 1000 students, The Hurst School combines outstanding facilities with a real commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a friendly and supportive school and Pastoral department.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, passionate and dedicated Head of Year to our Pastoral Team. You will be a dynamic and motivational individual, with the ambition to consistently challenge yourself to be a successful leader of students, no matter what should arise. You will provide highly effective pastoral care to your year group and promote and secure a culture of high expectations for all students. You will also co-ordinate all aspects of learning, behaviour and the development of students within the year group to ensure that all students are supported to become confident, successful and responsible individuals in school, the wider community and beyond. As a school, we will offer you strong CPD, with career development opportunities at the forefront of our minds.

What the school offers its staff

The benefits package includes an on-site gym and an on-site nursery. We are a rural school within easy driving distance of Reading, Newbury and Basingstoke.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About The Hurst School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1014 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Phone number
01189817474

A successful, popular and highly regarded school with around 982 pupils. The Hurst School combines outstanding facilities with a real commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. A rural school within easy driving distance of Reading, Newbury and Basingstoke.

Arranging a visit to The Hurst School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email theheadteacher@hurst.hants.sch.uk.

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