Head of Year: Post 16 (Non-Teaching & Pastoral)
Harris Academy Chobham, London, E20 1BDThis job expired on 22 May 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September
Closing date
22 May 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week; actual salary £33,107.81
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £39,378
Pay scale
- Grade 8 (Inner London)
Additional allowances
Performance & Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an experienced Head of Year (Pastoral/Non Teaching) to support our students at Harris Academy Chobham.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- GCSE Maths and English at grade C or above, or equivalent
- Knowledge of behaviour for learning policies
- Knowledge of the range of barriers to learning that students face
- Training in child protection and safeguarding procedures
- Basic knowledge of first aid (e.g. emergency first aid course)
- Two years' experience of working in an inner city school or educational establishment
- Experience of dealing successfully with a range of behaviour issues
- Experience of working with staff to ensure excellent behaviour for learning
- Experience of working with families
- Experience of supervising a group of students for reflections, referral and internal exclusion as appropriate
- Experience of working with challenging students and finding ways in which we can meet their needs more successfully
What the school offers its staff
Chobham Academy is always on the lookout for inspirational and influential staff. Most of all, we are on the lookout for potential colleagues who like our students and want to help them succeed. In order to help our staff have the best possible experience and achieve a proper work- life balance, we have put into place a range of measures to benefit both our teaching and students services colleagues.
We place high emphasis on staff wellbeing at Chobham. This helps colleagues to be happier and more effective in their work. Staff are regularly consulted about their wellbeing and the outcomes of these consultations have a direct and rapid impact upon the Academy's approach to supporting staff wellbeing.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
In this varied and rewarding role, you will:
- Oversee the pastoral progress of a named year group
- Liaise with parents and careers and other external agencies as appropriate under guidance from their line manager
- Be responsible for the calm and purposeful entrance and exit of students into/out of the Academy
- Ensuring that students enter the building in full Academy uniform and if not, following the agreed procedures
- Be responsible for calm and purposeful movement around the academy between lessons
- Be responsible for maintaining a calm and purposeful learning environment by supporting the Academy Leadership Group (ALG) with duty during the academy day, proactively visiting lessons to ensure expectations regarding behaviour remain high and students remain focussed
- Work with the other members of the behaviour team as a unit to ensure students are monitored and supervised before school, during break and throughout lunch.
- Manage reflections as per the reflections schedule and rota
- Ensure that follow up action is taken for students failing to meet Academy standards
- Follow through any issues to do with behaviour as required by the Academy Leadership Group, such as taking student statements regarding incidents and passing these on to relevant colleagues, and logging behaviour events on Bromcom or CPOMS
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
About Harris Academy Chobham
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 2056 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Chobham website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@chobhamacademy.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0203 747 6060
Chobham Academy opened in September 2013 as part of the Harris Federation. Our 3-18 academy is a world class educational legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Situated within the East Village complex, the academy serves the community newly established in 2,800 new homes, along with existing communities in Newham and Waltham Forest. Chobham Academy is judged "Outstanding" in every category by Ofsted.
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