Pastoral Year Leader
Astrea Academy Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 9BE3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
20 May 2024 at 12:59am
Date listed
2 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,598.00 - £30,242.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 21 - 26
Pastoral Year Leader job summary
Astrea Academy Sheffield is looking for an outstanding Pastoral Year Leader to join the Pastoral Team.
The Pastoral Year Leader will take responsibility for a specific year group, alongside the Academic Year Leader. These roles will ensure that the highest standards of pastoral care and academic support are in place for the Key Stage 3 and 4 scholars at the academy.
The successful candidate will enforce the high standards and expectations around behaviour, attendance and progress so that each scholar achieves their full potential.
At Astrea Academy Sheffield we are values-driven and our vision is Our vision is 'to provide an exceptional, knowledge rich educational experience to ensure all scholars succeed'. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our scholars have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
What we offer:
- Wonderful and caring young people
- A hard working, aligned and happy staff body who are driven by a moral imperative
- Stimulating conversations about curriculum & pedagogy
- Excellent, bespoke CPD for all
- Research informed approaches to teaching
- Sensible, centralised systems that support all staff
- Thoughtful policies that are mindful of staff workload
- Fabulous food, cooked by our in-house chef.
What we are looking for:
- Hard working professionals with excellent skills and knowledge in their areas of expertise
- People who lead with their heart and do whatever it takes to ensure the life chances of our scholars are maximised
- Someone who is totally aligned with our vision and values
Interested in applying?
If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our excellent learning environment
The closing date for all applications is Sunday 19th May 2024.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Sheffield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its scholars and expects all staff, volunteers and members of the Academy community to share this commitment.
We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent and effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, scholars and staff within the Academy. All concerns are passed through the Safeguarding Team in line with our Astrea Academy Sheffield Safeguarding Policy 2023 and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 Guidance.
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About Astrea Academy Sheffield
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 988 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Astrea Academy Sheffield website (opens in new tab)
At Astrea Academy Sheffield, we address our young people as scholars because we know that every single one of them is capable of outstanding academic achievements. We promote scholarship by offering an all-through curriculum which is rich in powerful knowledge and meticulously planned by subject experts. We know that powerful knowledge is the key that will open powerful doors for our scholars in the future. Therefore, we are relentlessly committed to delivering exceptional lessons in every classroom, every day.
We respect every scholars’ right to access an exceptional education and offer academic, inspiring and broad opportunities for all through both our curriculum and co-curriculum. We teach our young people to be responsible through our thoughtful character education programme and essential habit building work. Our scholars respect everyone in our academy’s community and grow their responsibility, knowing that they are the leaders of tomorrow.
We are tenacious in our commitment to do the very best for the young people in our care and this tenacity is mirrored in the way that our scholars work on their academic and character education every day.
We foster curiosity in our young people by providing them with a rounded education which opens doors to new opportunities, ideas and experiences. Our classrooms are filled with the awe and wonder that is comes from the joy of learning.
If you are interested in coming to see more of what we do, then please email info@astreasheffield.org to arrange a visit.
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