Head of Year
Myton School, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 6PJ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter/Summer Term
Closing date
4 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 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: 1.00fte
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR 1.2
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you have a desire to work within a large pastoral team and develop strong relationships with students and their families? Are you ready for your next challenge? If the answer is yes, then joining our team of 5 Heads of Year, and working alongside our highly experienced and supportive wider team of student welfare and support, safeguarding, work related learning, character development and behaviour might be just the opportunity you are looking for! As one of our five Heads of Year, through energetic and innovative leadership, you will develop the ethos unique to your allocated year of approximately 275 students. You will be instrumental in delivering Myton’s core aims and ensure that students make outstanding progress by removing barriers to their personal, social or learning development.
You will need significant experience in building positive and trusting relationships with young people and be able to use a range of strategies to manage challenging behaviour and difficult situations, as well as the skills and confidence to communicate effectively with large audiences. You will also be an inspirational leader of others, able to enthuse and engage colleagues in a shared vision for, and culture of, improving achievement and also challenge and support colleagues appropriately.
As well as being academic, we are also highly inclusive and want all students to develop a love for learning. As a happy and purposeful community, we offer students an exciting curriculum and a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities within a safe, secure and supportive environment. With enduring values of care and mutual respect we support hard-working staff as well as students and families.
Our team are also looking to welcome a motivated teacher, with a keen interest in encouraging and inspiring students to love learning and excel. We have an extremely active staff wellbeing group who organise events and Teaching and Learning team who provide incentives for sharing best practice.
What the school offers its staff
Your health and wellbeing are important to us at Myton School with all staff having access to the Westfield Health ‘Healthy Extras’ provision. This includes access to a 24 hour Doctor line, emotional support and counselling, financial advice and debt counselling and specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues. All staff are encouraged and have access to a wide range of Continued Professional Development opportunities to either further their current career or develop in a new area.
Further details about the role
In short, we are a popular, high performing school with academy status, situated between Warwick and Leamington Spa with a strong community spirit. Our staff offer students a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities in addition to a wide curriculum and we would be delighted to expand this further if you have additional time and talents to share.
If you are not familiar with Myton yet, or want to find out more about the role, please contact us to find out more. Our Deputy Head, Mrs Liz Curtis, is keen to hear from you via Curtis.l@myton.co.uk.
To apply, go to https://www.mytonschool.co.uk/vacancies-training/teaching-vacancies/
For any queries, please email vacancies@myton.co.uk (or tel: 01926 493805 ext. 225/209).
Closing date: 9.00am, 4 February 2025.
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
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About Myton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1758 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Myton School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- thomas.p@myton.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01926 493805
Myton is a very popular, high performing school with academy status, situated between Warwick and Leamington Spa. As a happy and purposeful community, we offer students an exciting curriculum and a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities within a safe, secure and supportive environment. With enduring values of care and mutual respect we support hard-working staff as well as students and families.
Arranging a visit to Myton School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email thomas.p@myton.co.uk.
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