Sixth Form Student Support Coordinator
Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AHThis job expired on 21 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
21 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week. 8.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Thursday 8.00am to 4.00pm Friday Term Time only, plus 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- SCP 3-7 £24,027 – £25,584 pro rata £21,105.32 to £22,472.99 actual salary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an organised and approachable individual?
Then this will be the job for you.
This post provides a unique opportunity to work within a high-performing and growing 11 to 18 grammar school with a large sixth-form and exceptionalstudents.
We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School Of The Year”, “Soaring 57 places in the UK rankings to 77” out of approximately 6000 secondary schools (state and independent) in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power Guide.
If you are interested in this position then please visit the vacancies section of our website www.heckgrammar.co.uk/vacancies.
Completed applications should be sent by email to: recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk.
The ideal candidate will be:
Organised and proactive, with experience in student support or pastoral care.
A strong communicator, able to engage with students, parents, and staff.
Confident in handling student behaviourand maintaining a positive learning environment.
Tech-savvy, comfortable using attendance systems and digital resources.
Passionate about education and student development.
Experience in a school or Sixth Form setting is desirable but not essential.
Key Responsibilities
Transition & Recruitment
- Plan and coordinatePost-16 transitionin collaboration with senior staff.
- Maintain and lead theSixth Form Recruitment Calendar.
- Organise and coordinateexternal recruitment events, including assemblies and careers fairs.
- Lead key Sixth Form transition events:
- Year 11 Taster Day (December)
- Sixth Form Experience Day (June)
- Year 12 Induction Trip
- Internal recruitment events(assemblies, subject information stands)
- Lead theHouse and Integration Student Committeeto promote student engagement.
- Oversee theYear 12 Buddy System, ensuring smooth peer mentoring.
- Organise and runYear 12 Transition Network Meetings.
Student Support & Wellbeing
- Work closely with thePastoral Leaderto support student behaviour, attendance, and well-being.
- Conductdaily lesson attendance checks, enforcing sanctions for truancy where necessary.
- Monitor and managelate arrivals, conducting mid-week and end-of-week checks.
- Overseemorning registration (8:45 – 9:10)at the school reception.
- DeliverAIM sessionsfor targeted students under the direction of Academic Leaders.
- Supervise student access and conduct in theJCC (study centre), ensuring a safe and productive environment.
- Managelaptop distributionand ensure appropriate use of school resources.
- UtiliseCCTV monitoringwhere appropriate to maintain student safety.
Protection of children:
Disclosure of criminal background of those with access to children.
All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.
What the school offers its staff
- Be part of ahigh-performing and supportive Sixth Form team.
- Opportunities forprofessional development and training.
- Work in adynamic and student-focused environment.
- Make a real impact on students'academic success and well-being.
Pension Plan with Local Government Pension Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free On Site Parking
Free Flu Vaccinations
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement:
Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heckmondwike Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1468 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heckmondwike Grammar School website
- Email address
- recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.
We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School of the Year”, in the North of England, for 2024 and 2025 in the Sunday Times Parent Power Guide. This is a measure of school performance for GCSE and A level outcomes.
At GCSE our students typically exceed government set target grades by more than 1 grade in each subject and we are ranked second nationally for state coeducational schools.
At A level, we rank in the top 20% of providers nationally for grades AAB or above and typically 3 times the national average of our students attend Oxbridge universities.
We are very proud of our academic heritage.
Misbehaviour is rare; and excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm: teachers are able to ‘get on and teach’. Working here is still challenging, however, but in different ways: expectations are high and potential applicants will need to be able to operate effectively in a top performing environment. However, one of the principal joys of working at this school is our eloquent and motivated students. Consequently, outcomes are amongst the very best in the country, and this is the result of able cohorts being provided with high quality teaching that is supported by strong pastoral care for each student. The school is justifiably proud of the focus on academic attainment and knowledge of each individual that enables education to be tailored to every student’s needs; but also prioritises the support it provides to enable any barriers to progress to be addressed. The focus is and will always remain teaching and learning in the classroom, with staff training and development being the main means of achieving this end.
The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed, with well over 1500 students applying for entry into Year 7 each year, competing for one of 210 places. Post 16, we are similarly oversubscribed with around 800 applications for one of approximately 225 places in year 12. The majority of our year 11 students continue into the sixth form and are joined by a number of similarly aspirant students from across the region.
We work in partnership with an extensive group of schools, including the Northern Grammar School Alliance (NGSA), and have a significant reputation both locally and nationally. This means we offer our staff opportunities to be involved in professional development on a larger scale and see it as a sign of our high quality when members of our community are promoted to posts elsewhere, or progress internally. As a result, all staff feel very privileged to work here and to work with our young people.
Further information about the school including main school and sixth form prospectus may be found on the school website at www.heckgrammar.co.uk
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