Year Leader

Claycots School, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 1QX

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  1 May 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  17 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year or phase
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,398.00 - £52,490.00 Annually (Actual) TLR2b - £5,757 per annum

Year Leader job summary

The successful applicant will:

- Demonstrate all key Skills and Competencies required for this role and exemplify all Claycots Values.

- Ensure that teaching and learning is consistently good and pupils make at least expected progress in line with their starting points.

- Contribute to whole-school improvement.

- Hold a UK Driving Licence.

Why join Claycots?

- Career Development Opportunities.

- All staff have access to YuLife, a medical insurance and wellbeing platform with gamified wellness rewards to encourage healthier daily habits. This also gives access to an Employee Assistance Programme and instant healthcare via video or telephone consultation with a GP

- Ongoing Professional Development (CPD programmes for all staff)

- Awarded Gold in Investors in People

- Modern Facilities and Resources to Support Teaching and Learning

- Staff Discounted Lunch

- Newly refurbished Staffrooms with Hot Drink Machines

- Free On-Site Parking

- Subsidised staff end of term events that all are welcome to attend

- Mental Health First Aiders on Site.

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.

About Claycots School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 1649 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Claycots School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/claycots-school

Claycots School is a large, multi-site school which is judged Good by Ofsted. Currently we have 1700 pupils over two campuses in Slough making us a unique school to work in.

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