Head of Year (Non Teaching)

Manchester Communication Academy, Manchester, M40 8NT

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  13 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 November 2026

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: £26,411.00 - £30,157.00 Annually (Actual) The salary listed is the pro rata actaul salary if TTO. FTE salary is £30,808 - £35,177

Head of Year (Non Teaching) job summary

Dear Candidate,

Thank you very much for your interest in becoming a Head of Year at Manchester Communication Academy. Manchester Communication Academy was first established in 2010 and has gone from strength to strength each academic year. The Academy has approximately 1300 students on roll in Years 7-11 and we boast a wonderfully rich and diverse school community. MCA is at the heart of the community and is committed to improving educational outcomes for all of our students. MCA is proud to be a community hub and our outward facing work is outstanding.

Our non-teaching Heads of Year lead the day-to-day pastoral care, conduct and standards of their year group. Working with the Teaching Director, Pastoral Programme Lead and specialist teams, they combine high expectations with practical support so that every pupil is known, valued and able to learn.

At MCA, we strive for excellence in everything we do. Implementing an ambitious, text-rich curriculum is a key priority and driving force in our ambition for excellence. We believe in the transformative power of knowledge in ensuring equitable opportunities for success. Our aspirational, bespoke curriculum ensures that all of our students gain the necessary experiences to compete academically, practically, socially and morally in the wider world. In order to achieve this, we invest deliberately in professional development. Drawing upon our EEF Research School, we are able to provide all staff with the most up-to-date and high quality evidence to develop their expertise.

At MCA, we proactively promote staff wellbeing through our management of workload and additional benefits for staff, such as flexi days and the Employee Assist programme. As a result, our staff are highly skilled and knowledgeable professionals who embrace new opportunities to learn more and keep getting better - a culture that permeates the academy amongst staff and students.

Our developments now focus on evolving the student experience and their sense of identity and belonging at MCA. We are continuing to develop student culture through a behaviour curriculum for staff and students where expectations and routines are explicitly taught and deliberately practised. Our students appreciate and relish the opportunity to learn and we support their effective learning behaviours through high expectations with emphasis on metacognition and our work with parents, families and the community. Having the highest expectations of our students means that our teachers can focus on teaching and our students can focus on learning. There needs to be relentless consistency with the implementation of the behaviour approach in every classroom, but this needs to be delivered with respect, to help drive the standards we are striving to achieve.

We are now looking for staff who are aligned with our values and will accelerate the school’s journey to excellence. The position is a great opportunity for someone who shares our passion for delivering educational excellence. The right candidate will be able to engage our young people and work effectively with our parents. You will work with authenticity, clarity and empathy and place the wellbeing of students at the core of all decisions.

If you are aligned to our mission and values, and could flourish with this opportunity, we very much look forward to hearing from you. We fully recommend that you take the opportunity to make an informal visit prior to making your application to see the school for yourself.

Kind Regards

Susan Watmough

Headteacher

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Manchester Communication Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1240 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Manchester Communication Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/manchester-communication-academy

Manchester Communication Academy serves the community of Harpurhey and its surrounding districts. We are an 11-16 secondary school with a primary school also on site. Close collaboration between the two schools is fundamental to our way of working.

Not only is the Academy committed to offering our students the highest quality learning experience but the Social Investment Department is dedicated to offering opportunities and support to our local families and wider community. Together, our driving force is to mitigate the impact of disadvantage and ensuring that the young people that we serve are equipped and ready to be successful and happy adults who we are proud to know.

Everyone at MCA shares these same values and this is important to us.

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