Year Leader
Claycots School, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 1QX14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
13 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,398.00 - £52,490.00 Annually (Actual) TLR2b - £5,756 per annum
Year Leader job summary
This role is essential in ensuring that teaching and learning are consistently good, enabling pupils to make at least expected progress relative to their starting points. The Year Leader will support the school’s vision of fostering excellence in learning alongside the development of personal qualities such as resilience, curiosity, integrity, respect, and kindness. By nurturing these qualities, the Year Leader helps prepare pupils to overcome challenges and make positive contributions to society.
Given Claycots School’s large size, two-campus structure, and diverse pupil population—including significant proportions of disadvantaged pupils, pupils with SEND, and pupils with high mobility—the Year Leader must be adaptable, inclusive, and proactive in promoting high standards, safeguarding, and pupil wellbeing.
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.
Why join Claycots?
- Career Development Opportunities.
- Access to YuLife, a medical, life-insurance and wellbeing platform with gamified wellness rewards to encourage healthier daily habits.
- Employee Assistance programme that provides free counselling, advice and support
- 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.
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Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)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
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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