Teaching Head of Year

Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  5 May 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  7 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: English, Geography, History, ICT & Computing, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Physical Education (PE), Science
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £35,147.00 - £52,935.00 Annually (Actual) AST 1-12 £31,756-£49,544 dependent on experience, plus £3,391 Head of Year allowance

Teaching Head of Year job summary

Teaching Head of Year

We are seeking an enthusiastic and passionate Teaching Head of Year to deliver high quality pastoral leadership and teaching for our growing secondary school. This is an exciting opportunity to join a committed, friendly and professional team of teachers providing a transformational quality of education to the pupils in our thriving school.

At Houstone, our values of Integrity, Ambition, Excellence are underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our teachers enjoy their teaching with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.

Joining Houstone School as a Teaching Head of Year is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story – providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable. We welcome applications from experienced teachers who may be looking for their next step in their career and from experienced Heads of Years looking to move school.

Key Duties:

Be able to develop, plan and deliver effective and high-quality learning experiences to all students

Lead and manage the achievement, progress and pastoral/safeguarding provision for pupils within the year group.

To be responsible for raising the standards of attainment for all pupils in the specific year group and to contribute to whole school improvement at a strategic level.

Liaise with parents over the progress and pastoral needs of pupils in the year group whilst maintaining the tutor’s role as a point of contact for parents who have a concern.

Organising Parents Evenings for the year group.

Organise and conduct assemblies that contribute to strengthening a positive learning culture

The successful candidate will:

Have experience of providing an academic, knowledge-rich curriculum that values the distinctiveness of subject disciplines

Have the ability to provide excellent quality, evidence-based classroom practice

Have an understanding of how an effective pastoral system underpins high academic achievement.

Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work in partnership with pupils, parents, staff, and the wider Community.

Be intrinsic in further developing a school that will offer families a genuine choice of an excellent education for their child, including:

• A disciplined “can do” culture that allows every pupil to be known, feel safe, and be cared for
• An intensive focus on the basics of reading, writing and maths
• High quality PSHE provision
• Plentiful, high quality enrichment opportunities, including trips, visits, after-school clubs and sporting fixtures.

Job Specifics

Start date: September 2025

Salary: AST 1-12 dependent on experience plus Head of Year Allowance £3,391

Job role: Permanent, Full time

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safeguarding

'We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:

“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Houstone School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 517 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Houstone School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/houstone-school

Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.

There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.

Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.

Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.

We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.

Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.

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