Head of Year

Queen Elizabeth's Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 7AP

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 March 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,471 to £38,501

What skills and experience we're looking for

Queen Elizabeth’s Academy have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed non-teaching Head of Year to join our pastoral team. This pivotal role combines pastoral leadership with academic support, ensuring students are fully engaged, supported, and able to achieve their potential.

This is permanent position, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only.

Key duties:

• Leading the pastoral care and academic progress of a year group

• Supporting attendance, punctuality, behaviour, and wellbeing

• Celebrating student success and fostering a positive year group identity

• Building strong relationships with students, families, and external agencies

• Promoting community cohesion through enrichment, healthy living, and student leadership initiatives

• Managing and developing a year team, ensuring high standards in registration, tutorials, and pastoral programmes

• Overseeing interventions for students at risk of underachievement, absence, or behavioural concerns

The successful candidate will have:

• Proven experience in a pastoral role within a school setting

• Strong ability to lead, motivate and develop a team

• Excellent communication skills to engage with students, families, staff, and external agencies

• Organisational skills to manage data, interventions, and year group activities effectively

• A track record of improving attendance, punctuality, behaviour, and student outcomes

• Commitment to safeguarding, student wellbeing, and inclusive practice

• Flexibility to provide cover, supervision, and support across the school when required

• A positive role model with resilience, empathy, and high expectations for young people.

• Local community knowledge

What the school offers its staff

Our employee benefits

At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.

In return you will benefit from:           

• Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 21.8%

• Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning

• Employee Assistance Programme

• GP helpline

• Health and wellbeing advice and support

• Eyecare vouchers

• Salary sacrifice schemes – electric car scheme, cycle to work, home and electronics

• Lifestyle savings - discounts and offers on gym memberships, holidays, days out, shopping, restaurants, etc

• Health cash plan (personal or family) – where you pay monthly and can claim money back on private treatments such as dental, optical and therapies (e.g. physiotherapy, osteopathy etc)

• Take a look at our rewards and benefits online

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Job Description and Person Specification - HoY non-teaching.pdf - 270 KB (opens in new tab)

Be part of our team - Diverse Academies Trust.pdf - 2.44 MB (opens in new tab)

About Queen Elizabeth's Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 879 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Queen Elizabeth's Academy website
• Email address: tpiper@queenelizabeths-ac.org.uk
• Phone number: 01623 623559
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-elizabeth-s-academy-mansfield

Queen Elizabeth's Academy is a growing secondary school for students aged 11-18 years based in Mansfield with over 900 students. In both our latest Ofsted and SIAMS inspections, we were rated ‘good’ overall with feedback that our academy has ‘established a culture that supports all pupils to learn well’ and that ‘pupils understand the school’s Christian values well’.

Arranging a visit to Queen Elizabeth's Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tpiper@queenelizabeths-ac.org.uk.

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