Year Leader
Lees Brook Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4QX12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time, Permanent, Term Time only.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- From £37,938 to £41,510
What skills and experience we're looking for
1.Be proactive in establishing behaviour for learning across the school.
2.Meet with parents/carers to establish a strong sense of culture and the learning purpose within the Academy.
3.Co-ordinate home/school links over a range of issues e.g. attitudes to learning and individual progress.
4.Work closely with Senior Leaders and the Senior Leadership team to monitor the individual progress of all students in the designated group and take or support appropriate intervention to facilitate progress in line with target grades.
5.Monitor, record and evaluate the impact of various interventions for students within the designated group, ensuring use of, and feedback for, the most effective interventions by the Pastoral and Faculty Teams.
6.Identify students in need of specialised mentoring, and provide mentoring sessions where appropriate or facilitate alternative mentoring opportunities.
7.Access student voice via year group or, focus groups, interviews and questionnaires analysing student feedback to promote the learning experience and inform best practice for Pastoral and Faculty teams.
8.Proactively use the Go 4 Schools system to regularly monitor behaviour and learning of all pupils, analysing any sub-group patterns and feeding back to Tutors, Mentors and the wider pastoral team, as appropriate.
9.Support and review parents’ evenings.
10.Establish and co-ordinate proactive intervention strategies for both pastoral and learning progress by liaison with Pastoral Teams and Heads of Departments.
11.Lead tutor meetings and briefings and where necessary, pastoral meetings.
12.Quality assure the effectiveness and delivery of the pastoral curriculum.
13.Improve and monitor attendance of the year group in liaison with the attendance officer.
14.Be involved in the creation and establishment of Pastoral Support Plans and support the SENCo in collating information for EHC plans and JCQ access assessments.
15.Champion an ethos and culture of high standards, resilience and self-belief within the student group through positive communication, assemblies and tutor time activities.
16.Conduct walkabout, lunchtime and afterschool duty, late duty and bus duty as appropriate.
17.Liaise with external agencies.
18.Safeguard vulnerable students whilst acting as Designated Safeguarding Lead.
19.Accept reasonable changes in responsibility or teaching commitment according to experience, expertise and the needs of the Academy.
What the school offers its staff
•Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
•A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
•Access to generous pension schemes
•Access to discounted travel schemes
•Cycle to work scheme
•Comprehensive training and support
•Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
•Eye care voucher scheme
•Free flu vaccine
•Access to e-learning and development
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Lees Brook Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1095 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lees Brook Academy website
- Email address
- hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01332671723
Lees Brook Community School is committed to working with pupils and their parents to enable each youngster to achieve success in all areas of life – academic, personal, physical, social;Raising standards of achievement, increasing access and widening participation in PE and Sport for everyone in our school, partner schools, wider community and Derby City;Changing the culture for learning in our community by raising self-esteem, recognising achievement, promoting pride within the local area and providing pathways for talented performers;Building a community for learning in which everyone (pupils, parents, staff, governors, and the wider community) sees learning as a life-long process for them to engage in.
At Lees Brook, we believe how we learn is as important as what we learn and the kind of person we each become matters as much as what we achieve. Each of us is responsible for our actions and our behaviour; each one of us has a right to feel safe, secure and free from bullying in school; each one of us has a right to learn and achieve at the highest level we are capable of. The way in which we deal with other people matters, so we should always treat other people as we would wish to be treated and we learn from our mistakes as well as our successes.
Lees Brook is a school that cares for the people within it. We have a uniquely inclusive school which allows everyone to succeed. Our safe, successful and positive learning community ensures that every student is able to fulfil their potential; but more than that, to also become well rounded young people who will go on and thrive in the world of work.
Mrs Z House - Headteacher
Arranging a visit to Lees Brook Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@archwaytrust.co.uk.
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