Head of Year - Sixth Form
Harris Academy South Norwood, London, SE25 6AEThis job expired on 10 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Term time only; actual salary £34,916.81-£37,148.10 (38 weeks per year, 39.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,934-£41,442
Pay scale
- Grade 8 (Outer London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are currently looking to appoint a dedicated and inspiring Head of Year and Sixth Form leader.
You will lead and manage the pastoral needs of the sixth form students by developing effective systems and strategies to ensure that all students in your year group are supported to enable them to fulfil their educational potential.
At Harris Academy South Norwood, you will join a dedicated team of teachers and staff supporting our excellent students. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow, inspire and develop, this may be the role for you.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- A good standard of education
- Evidence of pastoral related training
- Evidence of recent relevant ICT training
- Current First Aid certification, or willingness to undergo training
- Current mini-bus licence or willingness to undergo training to get one
- Experience of working with students from the 11-16 age range
- Experience of using ICT to monitor attendance and punctuality, or willingness to undergo training
- Experience of developing student autonomy through strategies such as peer mentoring
- Experience of using extra-curricular activities to enhance motivation and attainment
- Experience of raising levels of attendance and punctuality through rigorous monitoring, reporting and follow-up action
- Experience of using ICT for curriculum and administration purpose
Next Steps
What the school offers its staff
If you are looking for a diverse school with clear and effective behaviour policies and systems, a visible and supportive leadership team, useful but not onerous CPD, and frequent opportunities for promotion, then we are the school for you. We believe that our students need great outcomes to open doors that will help them make the best of their lives. Our students behave well, and so they achieve well. This is a product of our excellent behaviour systems. We have 6 non-teaching Heads of Year who support behaviour and welfare and run a fully centralised detention system. Exemplary behaviour can only be achieved through a highly visible Senior Leadership team, and they are constantly touring the Academy. CPD is bespoke, first and foremost in the subject and grounded in tried and tested methods of effective teaching such as modelling, questioning, literacy, practice and consolidation.
We are very fortunate to have excellent transport links to central London (some trains get to London Bridge in 11mins) and just 4 minutes on the train from East Croydon. The Clocktower campus is a 6 minute walk from Norwood Junction train station.
Teacher Development
At Harris, we have curated professional development pathways that will guide you towards achieving your career ambitions. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. With a strong network of passionate educators, expert development initiatives and a multitude of opportunities for career progression, your journey with Harris could be the most rewarding one yet.
We offer a wide range of high quality teacher professional development programmes via the Harris Institute of Teaching and Leadership.
Benefits
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance (usually £2,000 for Inner London and £1,500 for Outer London), a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Teachers Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Flexible working opportunities
We are committed to fostering a positive and supportive working environment for our staff, recognising that achieving a balance between professional and personal responsibilities is essential. We understand that each individual's circumstances are unique, which is why we offer flexible working options that can be adapted to meet the needs of both the academy and our employees.
Further information about the job
Your responsibilities within your year group will include:
- Contributing to the whole School Improvement Plan in conjunction with the Pastoral Lead
- Contributing to the development of effective monitoring and evaluation of pastoral systems
- Contributing to planning programmes of intervention for students who show significant underachievement and barriers to learning
- Participating in the development and implementation of strategies to maintain acceptable student behaviour
- The management of student behaviour
- Developing and implementing strategies to ensure that attendance and punctuality is at or above the school target
- Developing and managing systems for the monitoring and tracking of students out of lessons
- Establishing and managing a programme of enrichment activities
- Motivating and rewarding students
- Participating in the planning and delivery of assemblies
- Developing effective relationships with parents
- Establishing and maintaining effective administration systems
- Leading in student welfare meetings
- Leading in the development of robust and effective student welfare strategies
- Developing and implementing effective strategies for conflict resolution
- Implementation and monitoring of the schools policy on uniform
- In the event of very serious incidents, collating of information required by the Senior Management for disciplinary action
- Establishing and managing systems for the support and guidance of students during examinations
- Tracking, monitoring and supporting students' academic progress
- Developing, building and maintaining relationships with outside agencies
- Completion of student reports, references and records
- Inclusion of information regarding behaviour, attendance, punctuality and relationships in student reports
- Establishing forums for parental consultation and discussion
- Establishing systems which facilitate “student voice“
- The management of year group information systems utilising all available media
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 South Norwood
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1018 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harris Academy South Norwood website
- Email address
- info@harrissouthnorwood.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 405 5070
Located five minutes from Norwood Junction train station, a transport hub ten minutes' train journey from London Bridge, Harris Academy South Norwood has belonging and personal growth as our touchstones. We believe that teaching students powerful knowledge and developing their understanding of the world will help them become the best version of themselves: to help them to turn mirrors into windows.
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