14 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    5 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    12 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£38,934.00 - £40,755.00 Annually (Actual) actual salary £37,834 - £39,603

Head of Year - Non-Teaching job summary

Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.

We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.

Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.

In joining Coopers School and the family of schools within Orion Education you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.

Coopers School is seeking to appoint a Non-Teaching Head of Year. Our Heads of Year play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective delivery of pastoral support to individual pupils and groups of pupils are supported to actively participate in learning and reach their potential.

Our Heads of Year are members of a multi-disciplinary team, under the leadership and supervision of the Assistant Principal for Behaviour. They will work across all students and year groups to support and enable access to learning and the wellbeing of individuals. We are passionate about developing the whole child and this is a pivotal role in the pastoral team.

At Coopers School we are excited to build something for the whole community and provide a future education for thousands of young people.

This is an exciting opportunity for a diligent and self-motivated individual to join our team. The post holder will be making a strong contribution to promoting the school’s high standards in all areas of school life.

Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.

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 Coopers School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1293 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

School location

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