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  • Start date details

    January 2024

  • Closing date

    7 December 2023 at 9am

  • Date listed

    28 November 2023

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time: 36 per week, term time only plus 10 days

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Between £32,076 and £36,648 (Actual £28,554 to £32,613)

Pay scale

Grade J SCP 23 to 28

Additional allowances

Plus £600 Recruitment and Retention Allowance
To be reviewed after 12 months

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Experience of working with young people

  • Experience of working in a secondary school (Desirable)

  • Ability to work with sometimes challenging young people in an empathetic and constructive way

  • Ability to work under pressure with competing priorities

  • Excellent organisational and communication skills

  • Able to use IT effectively

  • Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office and Google Docs (training can be given)

  • Awareness of policies in relation to managing behaviour and attendance (Desirable)

  • An understanding and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people

  • Able to converse with parents / guardians effectively regarding sensitive matters

  • Able to build appropriate relationships with pupils to engage and influence

  • An awareness of the issues affecting school pupils aged 11-16

What the school offers its staff

  • Local Government Pension Scheme

  • Discounts on various Co-op branded products

  • Co-operative credit union

  • Discounted gym membership and leisure activities

  • Season ticket and rental deposit loans

  • Colleague Assistance via Health Assured

  • Cycle to Work scheme

  • Flu vaccine

Further details about the role

Join our caring and dedicated pastoral team as a Year Manager - With a passion for supporting students combined with strong behaviour management skills could you guide our students and help them achieve the best possible outcome.

Our aim is to ensure that our students are given every opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their background. With this in mind, we are looking to appoint a Year Manager who will respond to behaviour issues across the school, acting as a trusted adult and a positive role model, whilst providing consistent boundaries. The Year Manager will work alongside the pastoral and teaching teams to help create a positive learning environment that is supportive and nurturing.

As well as academic success, we focus on and take great pride in our students' behaviour. We aim for high achievement in an environment which is based on rewards, not sanctions. Working closely with our teaching body, this is an exciting opportunity for a Year Manager to help and support our students through their secondary school journey.

Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are centred around a different, fairer and better way of doing things. These values are embedded in everything that we do within the Academy - they are our ‘Ways of being’;

Do what matters most | Be yourself, always | Show you care | Succeed together

As part of the Co-op Academy Trust, you will also benefit from excellent CPD as well as a Trust wide network of colleagues to share best practice with.

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.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Co-op Academy Swinton

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
994 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01617946215

Arranging a visit to Co-op Academy Swinton

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email danielle.walsh@coopacademies.co.uk.

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