Head of Year
Skinners' Kent Academy, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 4PY19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- SKAT 824 - 828
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job overview
To work under the guidance of the Head of Upper/Lower School to maintain a strong team ethos within the pastoral team. The Head of Year will provide direction to students through settingchallenging and demanding expectations for students and promoting their self-esteem and independence. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and implementation of the overall ethos/work/aims of the Academy.
Key responsibilities
- Create, foster and build strong relationships with students in the year group and their parents/carers
- Work with the Attendance Officer to provide support concerning the attendance and punctuality of all students within the year group and in liaison with the Attendance Officer arrange meetings to support students who struggle to attend regularly
- Provide feedback to students in relation to attainment, progress, achievement, behaviour, and attendance
- Be responsible for keeping and updating records, including relevant filing, as agreed with other staff, contributing to reviews of systems/records as requested
- Implement the Academy’s Rewards and Sanctions policy
- Assist with Year Assemblies as directed by Head of Upper/Lower School
- Monitor House Tutor Time with daily drop ins to ensure programme is followed and that students are engaging and following Academy expectations
- Organise and manage Year extra-curricular, charity and community activity
- Contribute to the leadership and management of the behaviour strategy, including supervision of the ‘Internal Exclusion Room’ as appropriate
- Assist with the development and implementation of pastoral and personal care programmes
- Liaise with primary feeder schools and secondary schools to ensure effective and high-quality transition
- Participate in comprehensive assessments of students’ academic and pastoral progress
- Plan and implement reward events in collaboration with appropriate staff
- Support the Academy safeguarding, attendance and behaviour policies working closely with colleagues to ensure these are conducted effectively and efficiently
- To train as a deputy DSL
- To deputise for the Head of Upper/Lower School in their absence and cover for absent colleagues as requested
- Support the whole Academy detention rota
- Celebrate and praise the success of the Year group through Academy assemblies and newsletters
- Work closely with external agencies to support the young people in our care.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
- An exciting and vibrant place of work
- Gym facilities
- Local Authority reward scheme
- High-quality continued professional development
- A valuable pension package
Commitment to safeguarding
The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Skinners' Kent Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1036 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Skinners' Kent Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01892 534377
The Skinners’ Kent Academy is a non-fee paying, co-educational, all-ability Secondary school. The Academy is funded by the DfE and sponsored by The Skinners’ School, a grammar school for boys together with the Skinners’ Company, one of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies of the City of London.
The Academy is founded on the principles of a commitment to ensuring high standards and high aspirations, of active participation, an emotionally rich learning environment and an inclusive culture where every child is known and every learner supported.
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