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Head of Year
Seahaven Academy, Newhaven, East Sussex, BN9 9TD13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
12 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 June 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
- £28,140.00 Annually (Actual) FTE salary £32,663.00 based on 52weeks per year, Actual salary is prorated to 44.87 paid weeks per year, 39 working weeks per year
Head of Year job summary
The Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly efficient Head of Year to join our school. The successful candidate will combine leadership of attendance, behaviour and safeguarding across their designated Year Group.
The role includes creating a positive culture through insisting on high standards of student behaviour, supporting students, staff and parents of their year group, and monitor and improve students' behaviour and attendance within their year group. This is a busy but rewarding environment where every role in the school contributes to our students achieving their best possible outcomes. Further information is included in our job pack on the school website.
Our staff are committed to honing their skills through coaching, Teaching and Learning communities and using evidence-based approaches to create expert lessons. We believe that ‘Knowledge is Power’. We are currently using the Rosenshine principles and Teach Like A Champion to underpin our professional development and teaching through explicit/direct instruction.
The successful candidate can be sure of working with a team of extremely dedicated staff in a very motivating, forward-thinking environment. The school is committed to providing exceptional CPD at all levels including programmes for ECTs, recently qualified teachers and middle leaders.
About You
Role Purpose:
The Head of Year (HOY) position will combine leadership of attainment, attendance, behaviour and safeguarding across their designated Year Group.
The HOY will create a positive culture through insisting on high standards of student behaviour.
The HOY will pastorally support students, staff and parents of their year group.
The HOY will monitor and improve students' behaviour and attendance within their year group.
Role Tasks:
To actively monitor behaviour across the designated year group, responding to areas of concern and contributing to strategic planning to improve it
To create a culture of high standards and expectations across the year group
To actively monitor attendance across the year group and ensure that strategies are put in place to make improvements where needed
To take a proactive role in monitoring and working with individual students to ensure their behaviour is not adversely affecting their learning or the learning of others.
To actively engage with parents to ensure barriers to learning through attendance and behaviour are overcome
To work with Form Tutors to ensure that tutor group activities are well organised and coordinated to ensure best use of time
To take a lead role in the organisation and leading of assemblies
To lead daily rollcall giving clear and positive messages and ensuring high standards throughout
To champion your Year Group at every opportunity and create a genuine sense of belonging for all students
To ensure high standards of student uniform
To manage the induction of new students to Seahaven Academy
To investigate incidents as they arise, liaising with relevant staff and outside agencies when required
To communicate effectively with parents and carers including phone calls, texts, emails and letters
To organise parent meetings
To undertake home visits as appropriate
To support the SLT in RESET and on-call
To support and develop programmes which give student leadership opportunities
To support and promote the whole-school rewards policy and systems across the year group
To contribute to Senior Leadership Team meetings and planning on an invitational basis
To be highly visible around then school
To keep up to date with legislation around children protection, exploitation and safeguarding
To work with other staff in the coordination of support for those students who need to overcome barriers to fulfilling their potential and attaining the highest outcomes possible
To support the Academy's vision of becoming a year-on-year, high performing, fully inclusive school
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants for people working with children and vulnerable adults will need to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) enhanced clearance for this authority.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Seahaven Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 745 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Seahaven Academy website
Seahaven Academy is an 11-16 school serving the community of Newhaven and surrounding areas. Following an inspection by Ofsted in November 2021, the school has again been judged as ‘good’ in all areas. The school has a spectacular position in very modern buildings above the coast, within easy reach of Eastbourne, Brighton and Lewes. Newhaven has the benefit of good bus and train services from surrounding areas directly to and from the town.
At Seahaven Academy we have a very simple ethos: be ambitious, be determined, be the best! We have very high expectations of our students and of ourselves and are proud to be committed to fulfilling the United Learning mission of bringing out ‘the best in everyone’.
Our school is a vibrant yet calm environment in which students can fulfil their ambitions. We ensure that classes are disruption-free so that learning time is not wasted. We ensure students have every opportunity to be supported and extended when they most need it. We place a huge emphasis on literacy as the key to the wider curriculum. We enthuse, encourage, motivate, convince and cajole our students to be the best they can be. We underpin all our work with the very best student support and pastoral care. Seahaven Academy is a school with big ambitions and very high expectations. We expect our students to be leaders and drivers in our pursuit of excellence.
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