Non-Teaching Head of Year with DSL Responsibilities

Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE

Deadline is today

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  20 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Permanent, 37 hours/week (Term Time + 2 weeks)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade 6 (SCP 15–23)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the pastoral care, personal development, and academic monitoring ofa designated year group.
• Act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL), supporting the DSL in all aspects of safeguarding and child protection.
• Be a key contact for safeguarding concerns, maintaining records and liaising with external agencies as needed.
• Foster a positive, inclusive culture and promote high standards of behaviour, attendance, and wellbeing.
• Support students at risk, work closely with parents and staff, and lead year group assemblies and tutor programmes.

Essential Requirements:

• GCSEs in English and Maths (Grade C/4+), A Levels.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding legislation and procedures.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to safeguarding, equality, and high standards.

What the school offers its staff

Job Title:Non-Teaching Head of Year with DSL ResponsibilitiesLocation:

Queen Mary’s High School, Walsall

Contract:Permanent, 37 hours/week (Term Time + 2 weeks)

Salary:NJC Grade 6 (SCP 15–23), Actual: £25,939–£29,749

About the School:

Queen Mary’s High School is an academically selective girls’ grammarschool with a co-educational sixth form, located in the heart of Walsall. The school is renowned for its outstanding academic results, supportive pastoral care, and a vibrant, inclusive community that values diversity and personal growth.

Interview Date Tuesday 25th November 2025

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject toappropriate vettingprocedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you todisclosedetails of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.

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

We are committed to safeguarding at QMHS. Our school’s aims and vision statement very clearly states that we strive to ensure that the individual needs of all our highly able students are met. At QMHS and across the Mercian Trust we recognise that the emotional wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the community is integral to our continued success. We have built and continue to strengthen a community of support for all stakeholders which includes pupils, staff and parents/carers.

Applying for the job

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About Queen Mary's High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 944 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Queen Mary's High School website
• Email address: lottie.fellow@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-mary-s-high-school

Queen Mary’s High School is built upon a well established history of success, shaping exceptional young women for young adulthood. We are one of the top performing state schools in the country, consistently maintaining a high position nationally for GCSE and A Level outcomes. We were inspected by Ofsted in October 2022 and are proud to have been judged as Outstanding in all aspects of our provision.

Today, there are more opportunities for young women to succeed in society than there have ever been before and we firmly believe that there is no limit to the personal, social and academic achievement that is possible for each and every one of our students.

We are a school community passionate about learning and in cultivating an exceptional educational environment in which our young people are enabled to be the very best version of themselves. Our school community is one in which our students are expertly equipped with not only knowledge and understanding but the skills, the attributes and expertise to achieve their ambitions, and to fully realise their potential.

Support, care, and guidance for each young person is at our core and the Queen Mary’s High School values of responsibility, honesty, integrity, respect and tolerance underpin all that we as a school community stand for. We ask that parents help us in supporting their child in demonstrating these values each day, in school, at home and online. Only through working together in partnership will we ensure that we are all, together, incredibly proud of their achievements, progress and growth.

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