Head of Year - Sixth Form

Wren Academy Finchley, London, N12 9HB

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  10 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  3 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main payscale plus TLR 2c and Wren allowance
• Additional allowances:

  Main payscale plus TLR 2c and Wren allowance

Head of Year - Sixth Form job summary

We are looking to appoint a new Head of Year - Sixth Form starting in January 2026. A Sixth Form Head of Year is a key leader within the Academy and this role carries significant leadership and management responsibilities. It is essential that the post holder gives active support to the vision and ethos of Wren Academy. Areas of responsibility include: vision for the sixth form, safeguarding of all Post 16 students, A Level teaching and learning, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, behaviour for learning, the sixth form learning environment, Performance Management, addressing underachievement, quality of reports and contribution to assemblies.

If you have the ability to lead and inspire students to become effective, self directed learners and have a proven track record of teaching A level successfully, then Apply today!!

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

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.

About Wren Academy Finchley

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 18
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1639 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wren Academy Finchley website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wren-academy-finchley

Wren Academy Finchley is located in the London Borough of Barnet. It is the founder of the Wren Academies Trust, a MAT which is sponsored by the Church of England and Berkhamsted School. The Academy has developed a strong reputation for outstanding teaching and learning, as demonstrated by our Progress 8 figure, which places us in the top 65 schools nationally. We are an all-through school with a thriving sixth form and a primary phase which opened in September 2015. The engaging curriculum and state of the art buildings have contributed to the Academy’s notable success. There is also a strong focus on student well-being so that every individual is happy and secure to learn and thrive within a caring community.

Wren is a MAT and plans are well advanced to create a new school in a neighbouring borough which will provide exciting professional development opportunities for all staff.

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