Head of Year
Q3 Academy Langley, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68 8ED24 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
20 April 2026 at 10am
Date listed
20 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS + TLR1B (£12,521), Full Time (32.5 Hours, 52 Weeks), Fixed Term (01/09/2026–31/08/2027).
Head of Year job summary
Head of Year Job Description Maternity cover 1 year fixed term
Title: Head of Year
Project Team: Teaching Staff
Reports to: Assistant Head / Deputy Head Teacher
Grade: Pay Scale M1-UP3 (£32,916 - £51,048 + TLR1b (£12,521)
Hours: 32.5 Hours (full-time), all year round, 52 weeks per year (with some requirement to work occasional out of hours)
Location: Q3 Academy Langley
At Q3 Langley Our vision for learning is based around the whole child, ensuring no child is left behind. Our unique, innovative and exciting curriculum in Year 7 provides an excellent transition from Primary School. This enables pupils from all starting points to make rapid progress and enjoy their learning whilst improving their literacy skills.
Within The Trust we are proud that our ethnically and culturally diverse community is fully represented by the students and staff at each Academy. The Q3 ethos; ‘to seek that which is good, that which is right and that which is true,’ fully embraces the fundamental British Values of democracy; the rule of law; individual liberty; mutual respect and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs.
Students will be taught in mixed-attainment classes for their Core lessons. These follow the English Baccalaureate suite of subjects - English, mathematics, science, modern foreign languages, geography and history. Outside of the Core subjects students follow a carousel of teaching in the Horizon or Innov8 curriculum. This broad and balanced curriculum focuses on developing knowledge and skills in computing, business, design, religious studies, PSHE, art, dance, drama and music.
We use strategies within the curriculum and beyond to ensure these values are communicated and acted upon.
At the Academy our spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) education permeates through the curriculum, supports the development of the ‘whole child’ and includes the teaching and development of British Values.
The Academy seeks to continuously review and evaluate its work by gaining external accreditation. The successful completion of the awards listed below demonstrates that SMSC and British Values are incorporated into the daily life of the Academy:
Discovering Democracy Award for promoting youth participation and democracy in schools
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Army Cadet Force
Sandwell Shape Awards
Furthermore, our Wednesday afternoon offer of either physical education or enrichment will ensure all students take an active part in developing skills and talents they may not know existed before! No wonder we are the proud winners of Secondary School of the Year with Education Today in 2024 and also shortlisted as TES Secondary School of the Year in 2024.
Find more information here: Q3 Academy Langley - Home
The post-holder will be expected to undertake duties in-line with the professional teacher standards for qualified teachers. The Head of Year will lead a year team of form tutors and associate staff taking overall responsibility for the organisation, welfare and discipline of the year group. The Head of Year will have responsibility for the identification of students who require guidance and support. The Head of Year is responsible for the academic progress and achievement of all students in their care.
The Year Leader is expected to embrace a sense of “ownership” of the year group as a whole and requires a candidate who is robust, rigorous and who believes it is important to pay attention to detail. The position is both demanding and rewarding and requires a teacher with the ability to multi-task, prioritise demands and go the extra mile. Liaising with parents and external agencies is an important aspect of the job, as is focusing on the academic achievement of all learners in your year group. Essentially you will lead your year group as a ‘mini-school’ within its own designated area of the school - for example a specific year group playground space.
Want to make a difference to young people?
Are you ready to embark on a rewarding journey within an educational community that values increasing opportunities, improving outcomes. We are looking for a Qualified Teacher of xxxxxx to join our team. Reporting to the Curriculum Lead you will undertake:
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Attendance
To ensure outstanding attendance is promoted across the year group by rigorous scrutiny of registers, working alongside the Attendance Officer, associate year staff, form tutors and any outside agencies. With the Attendance Champion, identify the correct level of intervention for those students who fall below the given values in the Attendance Policy and ensuring the required actions are taken.
Form Tutors
To ensure the team of form tutors meet regularly and understand and implement the policies and protocols. To lead, assist and monitor form tutors. To support and take assemblies.
Students and achievement
To address students in a suitable style and tone for occasions such as congratulating them for achievements, counselling them on their actions, social times, transitions and weekly assemblies. The Year Leader must monitor students’ academic progress and help devise strategies for any particular groups who may need further intervention, such as PP, LAC, SEN, HPA, MPA, LPA, boys or girls. To support assessment and monitoring procedures, specifically Parent Consultation Evenings for their year group or other calendared events. To meet with the SENDCo regularly and maintain a sound knowledge of the students in the year group on the SEN register. To meet as a year team with the respective senior leader with responsibility for your respective year group review the support for students in the year group, evaluate the impact and plan further interventions as necessary. To closely monitor the points of students on Class Charts, to identify any students who need further pastoral support, such as a fixed term behaviour report, attendance report, punctuality report, parental meetings, initiate offers of Early Help. To meet weekly with the other Heads of Year to discuss and review progress
Record keeping
To ensure student pastoral records are kept in good order, such as Bromcom / Class Charts for information on serious misbehaviour and any communication with parents/carers, physical files for investigations and suspension/exclusion information, records of any pastoral support processes. To lead on any investigations into serious misbehaviour within the year group, using the guidance and ensuring all paperwork is complete before presented to the Assistant Headteacher for Behaviour/Pastoral for further consideration. To lead on any reintegration meetings following a suspension, ensuring key data is used in the meeting such as attendance, academic progress, behaviour summary and a plan for the successful reintegration into main school, such as time in IER, fixed term report, temporary timetable adjustments. To prepare the paperwork for any referrals to other relevant professional external agencies, when necessary, such as change of school, Managed Moves, Clinical Team.
Parents
To maintain flexible and appropriate communications with parents/carers. To listen to them when they are unhappy and deal with issues calmly and objectively. To arrange meetings with parents/carers to acquaint them with school policy or to discuss the welfare and general problems arising with any child. Meetings should take place before or after the school day has finished and during Parents’ Consultation Evenings.
Whole school discipline
Year Leaders are key people in the maintenance of good order and discipline in the school and must understand that their role extends beyond their year group. They must be active and involved around the school at all times, particularly at vulnerable times in the school day, such as the start of the day as students arrive, break and lunch times, transitions and the end of the day as students leave site. Therefore, the maintenance Year Leader of a high profile in corridors and playgrounds is essential. Year Leaders should also involve themselves in other important areas: o Detentions at break time, lunch time and at the end of the day o Break and lunch time duties, deploying the staff to supervise the areas of highest need and ensuring full coverage of the inside and outside areas.
Key Performance Indicators
The key performance indicators, or KPIs, are based on the Langley Learning Habits. You will show how you are working with your team to improve the numbers across the following KPIs: o Attendance, target of 96% daily and above national FFT benchmarks for your respective year group o Academic targets in line with the school improvement priorities o Punctuality to school % to be agreed upon acceptance of role o Punctuality to lessons % to be agreed upon acceptance of role o Correct uninform or Business Dress o Hosting of Family Breakfast and Lunch on a regular basis weekly
Pay range: MPS/UPS - £32,916 - £51,048 + TLR1B (£12,521)
Person Specification :
Qualification Criteria
Qualified to degree level or above Possesses QTS status or equivalent
Experience
Evidence of successful practice as a teacher in a secondary school Experience of continually improving teaching practice to increase student achievement and progress Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning of their subject through assisting with schemes of learning and extra-curricular/enrichment activities
Knowledge
Up to date knowledge in the curriculum area (Inc. A Level/GCSE specifications) Understanding of the teaching strategies needed to establish high aspirations with regards to results and behaviour Evidence of working with educational research to facilitate learning Knowledge of the current legal requirements, national and school policies and guidance on the safeguarding and promotion of the well-being of children and young people
Leadership
An ability to lead by example Effective team worker and leader Possesses high expectations for accountability and consistency Motivation to continually improve standards and inspire excellence Possesses an empathy and the ability to listen Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Teaching and Learning
Effective and adaptable ICT skills Numerate so that data analysis can be facilitated Effective communication skills Possesses energy, enthusiasm, resilience and perseverance A commitment to educational research in order to facilitate learning Excellent classroom teacher with the ability to reflect on lessons and continually improve their own practice Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards Thinks strategically about classroom practice and tailoring lessons to student's needs Understands and interprets complex student data to drive lesson planning, achievement and progress Excellent planning and organisational skills The ability to produce correspondence/documents, appropriate for a specific audience and in well-written English, ensuring the tone is appropriate to the purpose
For full details of the post please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Why The Mercian Trust?
As one Trust we share a common purpose. We call it our social mobility and social justice mission to change our communities through the very best equitable education. When we get this right, it enables our children and young people to fulfil their potential, thrive in the world of work, and make a positive contribution to the local, national and international community. Our recent achievements include:
Sustainable Growth - becoming one of the largest and most diverse trusts in the region
Social Mobility & Social Justice - National recognition for the Trust’s two selective grammar schools who the most successful on the number of local disadvantaged students passing the entrance and joining the schools
Increasing Opportunities - Opening brand-new purpose-built campus in Walsall Town Centre including an alternative provision for students at risk at permanent exclusion from mainstream schools alongside a Digital Skills Hub to provide professionals and employers
Pioneering Spirit - National recognition for pioneering work around youth mental health, including establishing an in-house multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and allied health professionals delivering interventions and providing support to vulnerable students
Outward Looking - Organising and hosting the region’s first Youth Suicide Conference (2023) and Youth Violence Conference (2024) at Villa Park
Innovation and Improvement - A multi-million-pound investment in the digital infrastructure of Trust schools and our Digital Skills Hub underpinning the ongoing transformation of how staff teach, students learn, leaders lead and the whole Trust operates in readiness for the AI-supercharged careers and workplaces of the future.
Want to be a part of something extraordinary? Find out more: The Mercian Trust - Home
What can we offer you:
Benefits:
Financial, Health and Lifestyle
discounts on everyday purchases (Eden Red)
a comprehensive free of charge health plan (UK Health Care)
a cycle to work scheme via Halfords
access to the Blue Light Card
For further benefits including education sector leading CPD: The Mercian Trust - What we can offer you
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.
The Mercian Trust is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment all offers of employment are subject to an online check, Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
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View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Q3 Academy Langley
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1441 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Q3 Academy Langley website
Q3 Academy Langley opened its doors in September 2016, becoming the first brand new secondary education provider in Sandwell in a decade. Our Academy ethos stems from the Latin ‘Quarere’, meaning ‘to seek’. We stand for three high ideals – to seek that which is good, that which is right, and that which is true. If you share our belief that these ideals are a tremendous foundation on which to build young people’s educational experience, with the hope that our students will feel delighted coming to the Academy, then you share our vision.
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