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Head of Year & Teacher of English

Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BX

This job expired on 20 September 2023

• Start date details

  January 2024

• Closing date

  20 September 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  15 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year or phase
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: No, visa sponsorship not available
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: English
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - 32.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1 – UPS3
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2b

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Head of Year, and English Teacher, will work with the Senior Leadership Team to ensure Avanti Fields School provides an outstanding education for all pupils, rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development and spiritual insight. The Head of Year will do this by leading a team of Form Tutors, overseeing the behaviour and conduct of a year group, developing schemes of work for tutor time, that support both the pastoral and academic development of students.

What will you do?

• Act as the primary middle leader for an allocated year group – in the eyes of teachers, students, parents/carers and other stakeholders
• Be the team manager for a group of personal form tutors who each oversee a form tutor group – developing and implementing whole school and year-based policy, protocols and systems as required
• Take a strategic lead, with tutors and working with heads of subject and senior leaders on the implementation of robust models of target setting, robust audited assessment, feedback to students, intervention and reporting to parents – for students and identified groups of students within the year group
• Carry out weekly monitoring of homework, rewards and sanctions. To liaise with subject teachers and HODS and deal with any gaps or disparities

For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description

What are we looking for?

• Experience of liaising with parents to promote effectively the pastoral and academic development of children
• Strong, compelling presence with excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Genuine passion for lifelong learning and for teaching and learning
• Able to self-start, work independently and collaboratively as part of a team- whether led or leading

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required.

What the school offers its staff

Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues its journey to outstanding.

Avanti schools are Hindu-designated faith schools. However, all staff members at Avanti Fields School will not be required to present themselves from any specific faith background and there will be no preference given in this regard. Applications are very welcome from practitioners of any faith and of none. The successful candidate will, however, be expected to be in sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School – following closely the expected behaviours laid out in the Ethos Handbook.

The staff team at Avanti Fields School is passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students. This is a unique opportunity to help develop a new and innovative school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:

• Educational excellence
• Character formation
• Spiritual insight

As a genuine all-through school, we are in the position to make a long term, lasting and positive impact on our students’ lives. The behaviour of learners in our schools is excellent and our parents, carers and students are highly aspirational.

Why should you apply

You will be working in a fantastic environment.

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth.

Further details about the role

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

Commitment to safeguarding

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

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About Avanti Fields School

• School type: Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
• Education phase: Through school
• School size: 950 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Avanti Fields School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: careers@avanti.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/avanti-fields-school (opens in new tab)

Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves into its new state of the arts building and continues its journey to outstanding. Avanti Fields School; we are an all-through; 3–16 Hindu-faith school – part of the multi-academy, Avanti Schools Trust. Avanti Schools are extremely popular with Hindu and non-Hindu parents alike who want an outstanding, disciplined and inclusive environment for learning for their children. Our established schools in London and Leicester are all at least rated good with outstanding features and have the highest expectations are our pupils. Avanti’s faith ethos means high academic and moral standards and an environment that values and nurtures the best within all faiths. Avanti Fields is a Hindu-designated faith school, part of the growing family of Avanti schools. However, staff and students at Avanti Fields School do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none; they will, however, be expected to be in full sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School.

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