Year Manager
Bodmin College, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1DD11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2026
Closing date
21 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 June 2026
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
- £21,549.26 - £26,111.23 Annually (Actual)
Year Manager job summary
Year Manager
Salary: Grade G1-G6
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Start Date: As Soon As Possible
Join us at an exciting time for pastoral care at Bodmin College
At Bodmin College, our mission is "to provide a great quality of education so that every child can live a life full of choice and boundless opportunities."
We believe in the power of strong relationships - between students, families, staff and the wider community - and that every young person deserves to feel seen, valued and supported to achieve their very best.
Bodmin College is on a transformational journey to provide an ambitious and inclusive education for all learners, and there has never been a more exciting time to join us.
From September 2026, we are launching a new pastoral structure that places student support, attendance, inclusion and belonging at the heart of everything we do. Each year group will be led by a dedicated Head of Year and supported by a Year Manager, creating a strong pastoral partnership focused on ensuring every child can thrive.
We are seeking an exceptional Year Manager to join our pastoral team and play a key role in shaping this exciting next chapter.
In the last 12 months we have:
Improved A8 outcomes to be in line with national standards, moving from 27th to 11th in Cornwall.
Become a top 10 school nationally for improvement in English A8.
Reduced fixed-term suspensions by 68%.
Improved attendance by 3.61%.
Been recognised as a high-performing school amongst similar schools nationally.
Most importantly, we have incredible students who deserve exceptional adults working relentlessly on their behalf every day.
What is a Year Manager?
The Year Manager is a non-teaching pastoral role that sits at the heart of student support.
Each Year Manager is assigned to a year group and works closely with a Head of Year to provide operational and pastoral leadership for students. Together, they ensure students attend regularly, feel a strong sense of belonging, receive the support they need and are able to access every opportunity available to them.
The Year Manager is often the first point of contact for students and families, building strong relationships and working proactively to identify and remove barriers to success.
This role is ideally suited to someone who is highly organised, resilient, compassionate and passionate about improving outcomes for young people.
What will you do?
Working alongside a dedicated Head of Year, you will play a central role in ensuring students are successful, supported and able to thrive throughout their time at Bodmin College.
You will:
Be a visible and trusted adult for students, building positive relationships and supporting them to overcome barriers to success.
Work closely with the Head of Year to implement year group priorities and deliver targeted pastoral support.
Champion excellent attendance by monitoring attendance patterns, identifying concerns early and working proactively with students and families to secure improvements.
Maintain regular contact with parents and carers, developing strong partnerships that support students both in and out of school.
Identify students who may require additional support and coordinate timely interventions to improve attendance, engagement, behaviour, wellbeing and outcomes.
Monitor the impact of interventions and maintain accurate records to ensure support is effective and responsive to need.
Promote high standards of behaviour and help create a calm, positive and purposeful learning environment.
Support students through key transition points, including joining the school, moving between year groups and returning following periods of absence.
Help ensure every student feels seen, valued and that they belong within the Bodmin College community.
Work closely with safeguarding, SEND, attendance and behaviour colleagues to ensure students receive coordinated and effective support.
Liaise with external agencies and services where appropriate to help remove barriers to learning.
Maintain a highly visible presence around the school during social times, supporting students and reinforcing positive relationships.
Contribute to year group events, assemblies, rewards systems and initiatives that promote student engagement, achievement and belonging.
Play an active role within a wider pastoral team consisting of Heads of Year, Year Managers and specialist inclusion staff, recognising that students achieve their best when professionals work together around their needs.
Working as part of Team Bodmin
You will be joining a dedicated and collaborative pastoral team consisting of:
Five Heads of Year
Five Year Managers
Attendance Team
Safeguarding Team
SEND Team
Behaviour Team
Wider Inclusion Staff
We recognise that when professionals work together around the needs of a child, students experience the very best support and achieve the very best outcomes.
As part of Cornwall Education Learning Trust, you will also benefit from a strong culture of professional development, collaboration and continuous improvement. We invest heavily in our staff because we know that great schools are built by great people.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of young people every single day.
You will join a school that is ambitious for its students, committed to continuous improvement and determined to provide an exceptional educational experience for every child.
If you are passionate about supporting young people, building strong relationships with families and helping students overcome barriers to success, we would love to hear from you.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Carl Foster at cfoster@bodmin.celtrust.org.
Bodmin College and Cornwall Education Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to appropriate safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS check.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Bodmin College is committed to the care and wellbeing of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to provide an enhanced DBS disclosure
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 Bodmin College
- School type
- Academies, None, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1438 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bodmin College website
Bodmin College is a large 11-19 establishment (with Area Resource Base - ARB) providing, extensive, high quality education and care. We maintain high standards of achievement and traditional values within a disciplined and caring environment. Students are encouraged to enjoy their education, to develop respect for others and, through assuming responsibility, to develop as reliable and mature individuals ready to take an active role in adult life.
Our College is characterised by its vision of, ‘striving for excellence by putting the learner first’. We aim, in all that we do, to put students at the centre of our decision making processes and at the heart of our four key objectives which are:
• To improve the attainment and progress of all students in all subjects
• To improve the educational opportunities for all students in all subjects
• To improve the quality of the learning experience for all students in all subjects
• To assist and work in partnership with parents and carers to improve students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
This vision and our objectives are underpinned by an ethos in which we expect everyone, ‘to be kind, be polite, to be honest and to work to the very best of their ability.
With notable success as a finalists in the UK Social Mobility Awards for two consecutive years, we pride ourselves on opening doors, creating opportunity and raising aspirations.
More recently, our journey with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has seen our committed involvement in ‘The Framework for Excellence. A journey towards a world-class education system’. Within this structure, assessment has been robust and challenging, yet one in which we have been successfully recognised as providing ‘exceptional education’ through our ‘principled curriculum design’, ‘leadership through moral purpose’ and in our ‘climate for learning’ (SSAT, 2017). We have received national recognition for raising aspirations, removing barriers to social mobility and opening up world-class opportunities to our students.
Bodmin College has recently been invited to participate in the ‘Connect the Classroom’ scheme through the DfE. This scheme will see a significant investment in the IT infrastructure within the college to improve WiFi and connectivity throughout the college campus.
In addition, the college has also been successful in the exciting School Rebuilding Programme which will see another significant level of investment to improve the buildings on our site. We are hopeful that this award will assist us in continuing to develop the learning environment for all our students and staff. It is a long term project which will help us to deliver our vision for excellent education in the local area.
We achieve this only through the dedication, commitment, passion and hard work of our staff. Our staff body are valued and cared for and their wellbeing, professional development and input are important to us.
Please note that Bodmin College is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.
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