13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    14 August 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    31 July 2025

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

£24,270.00 - £27,651.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 6 SCP 11-19

Head of Year job summary

Are you looking for a role where each day is different, filled with experiences that are both challenging, enjoyable and fulfilling? A role where you go home with a sense of reward and achievement? An opportunity has arisen at Wellfield Academy to join our school as a Head of Year to help support students within the school from a pastoral and behaviour perspective. We are looking for a dedicated, proactive individual with a passion for working with children, who has a commitment to ensure that all children make the best possible progress in their academic, social and independent skills.

Why you?

  • You are creative, flexible and kind in your approach to supporting children to achieve their best
  • You demonstrate good communication skills and show commitment to working in a caring, supportive team
  • You have a clear understanding of the importance of safeguarding Why join us?
  • A truly supportive and encouraging team of dedicated staff and a People Strategy that focuses on realising our colleague’s potential and being an ‘employer of choice’
  • A comprehensive CPD offer for all our colleagues to really support your professional development
  • Access to a brilliant Learning Management System and flexibility around CPD to allow you to learn at your own pace
  • Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Free on-site parking
  • 24/7 access to an exceptional employee wellbeing package offering counselling, physiotherapy, private GP services and much more
  • Encouragement of further and continued professional development
  • Full and continued support from specialist staff within central Trust team
  • Term time only employment which supports long holidays
  • 50% off Endeavour Children’s Holiday Camp
  • Access to employee benefits, lifestyle savings, a cycle to work scheme, the Blue Light Card with thousands of discounts and savings on big brands!

We welcome staff who share our commitment to help children experience better days and better lives. Through ongoing development and training, we ensure our staff are well prepared for their jobs and given every opportunity to extend their skills.

This role is full time (37 hrs), permanent and term time only plus two weeks. Hours are 8:15am-4:14pm Monday to Thursday and Fridays 8:15-3:45pm.

Please complete our application form in full and return to return to vacancies@endeavourlearning.org, along with a personal statement to support your application and outline the relevant experience you can bring to Endeavour Learning Trust.

Applications should be submitted by 9am on Thursday 14th August 2025

Interviews are to be held on Tuesday 19th August 2025

If you require any further information please contact our Recruitment Manager, Mollie at m.fairhurst@endeavourlearning.org or on 01772 817904

Endeavour Learning Trust 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 and individually take responsibility for doing so.

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.

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About Wellfield Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
524 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Wellfield Academy is an ambitious, growing and thriving school. At our school, students experience inspirational and challenging teaching, excellent pastoral care and a genuine belief that every child can succeed. The successful candidate will join us at an incredibly exciting time for the school. We are one of just a small number of schools nationally to be chosen for the Department for Education’s Schools Rebuilding Project, which will see us move into a brand-new state of the art school in the coming years. In addition, our fantastic reputation in the local community has secured a significant growth in the number of students attending Wellfield. The number of families choosing Wellfield as their first-choice secondary school has more than trebled in the past three years and we are excited to welcome more staff into the Wellfield family as a result.

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