Year Leader
King's Leadership Academy Bolton, Bolton, BL3 3HL2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
May 2025
Closing date
27 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,374.00 - £28,182.00 Annually (Actual) Salary provided is the Actual Term Time only earnings (Scale 6.18 - 6.22)
Year Leader job summary
King’s Leadership Academy Bolton is seeking to appoint a passionate and hardworking Year Leader to join our growing pastoral team. As a Year Leader, you will provide outstanding pastoral care and welfare support to a designated group of students, helping to foster a caring, respectful, and high-achieving school community. You will play a crucial role in building strong relationships between students, families, and the Academy, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive.
You will be at the forefront of creating a positive culture where students feel supported, valued, and motivated to achieve their potential. You will work closely with senior leaders, Mill Tutors, and the wider pastoral team, implementing proactive interventions and supporting students' personal, social, and academic development.
Key Responsibilities-
Champion the Academy’s ASPIRE values and vision.
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Build strong relationships with students, staff, and families, maintaining regular communication.
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Foster a positive, supportive, and inclusive learning environment.
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Implement interventions to support student achievement, attendance, and wellbeing.
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Lead on behaviour management, ensuring consistency in the use of rewards and sanctions.
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Maintain accurate behaviour and safeguarding records and take appropriate actions when necessary.
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Liaise with external agencies and conduct home visits when required.
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Actively contribute to assemblies, parent events, and extra-curricular activities.
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Mentor and guide students on safeguarding, wellbeing, and behaviour matters.
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Experience working with young people in an educational setting.
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Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain positive relationships and manage situations calmly and fairly.
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Strong organisational skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
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Ability to inspire students, raise aspirations, and refuse to accept excuses for low performance.
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Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students.
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Be part of a vibrant, diverse, and expanding school housed in a brand-new, state-of-the-art building.
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Benefit from small class sizes and individual student support with personal tablets.
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Work in a school with a strong culture of innovation and highest expectations.
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Access a generous benefits package including:
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Flexible working opportunities
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BUPA Employee Assistance Programme
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Local Government Pension Scheme
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Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
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Extensive professional development and career progression opportunities across the Great Schools Trust.
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King’s Leadership Academy Bolton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, and pre-employment checks.
Commitment to safeguarding
King’s Leadership Academy Bolton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff o share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check.
To find out more about working for the Great Schools Trust and King’s Leadership Academy Bolton check out our Twitter or website and please get in touch if you would like a visit or chat with the Principal.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About King's Leadership Academy Bolton
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 910 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King's Leadership Academy Bolton website
Welcome to King’s Leadership Academy Bolton, a non-selective free independent school in the state sector that is providing a world class education for the young people of Great Lever.
King’s is founded on international research and traditional values with a huge focus on leadership and academic development.
Our vision is “To develop in each of our student the academic skills, intellectual habits, qualities of character and leadership traits necessary to succeed at all levels and become successful citizens in tomorrow’s world”.
At King’s we believe every child can succeed and that great teaching is the key to that success. This sentiment is reflected in our motto, ‘Credimus’, which translated from Latin literally means we believe.
We believe in appointing only the very best teachers and staff who are committed to serving the students and parents of this community. We believe in having the highest expectations of ourselves and our students as well as accepting no excuses for underperformance. We believe that our school exists to shape the life chances of all our students in order that they can attend the best Universities or places of employment in the years to come. We believe in fully supporting our students throughout their education.
King’s is unique, in that we have developed a highly personalised approach to our provision and teaching. Our smaller class sizes and year groups afford us tremendous opportunities to truly nurture and develop the academic and creative talents in all our students.
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