Year Manager (Fixed Term)
North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 0UD9 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £26,910.00 Annually (Actual)
Year Manager (Fixed Term) job summary
🌟 Join Our Team as a Year Manager
We’re looking for an inspiring, organised, and student focused Year Manager for a maternity cover role until December 2027. You will play a key role in shaping the culture, progress, and wellbeing of a designated year group within our academy. This is a pivotal pastoral leadership position for someone who is passionate about helping young people thrive—academically, socially, and personally.
As a Year Manager, you will lead the strategic development of your year group, ensuring students meet our high expectations, overcome barriers to learning, and feel supported throughout their school journey. Working closely with teachers, families, and external agencies, you will be at the heart of our commitment to creating a safe, ambitious, and nurturing environment.
🔍 What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading and managing the pastoral provision for a designated year group, ensuring students achieve strong academic outcomes and uphold academy standards.
- Identifying barriers to learning and coordinating targeted intervention strategies to support progress, attendance, behaviour, and wellbeing.
- Enhancing students’ personal and social development through guidance, mentoring, and proactive pastoral support.
- Leading, supporting, and developing a team of tutors to ensure consistent, high‑quality pastoral care and oversight of student progress.
- Acting as a key link between school and home, maintaining strong relationships with families and external support services.
- Monitoring behaviour, attendance, and engagement data to inform strategic planning and early intervention.
- Promoting a positive, inclusive culture where students feel valued, motivated, and equipped to succeed.
💡 What We’re Looking For
- A calm, confident, and proactive individual with a genuine commitment to supporting young people.
- Strong communication and relationship‑building skills with students, families, and colleagues.
- Experience in pastoral leadership, behaviour management, or working with young people in a supportive capacity.
- The ability to analyse information, plan interventions, and lead others effectively.
- Resilience, empathy, and the capacity to remain solution‑focused under pressure.
- A team player who contributes positively to the wider ethos and strategic priorities of the academy.
- Willingness to undertake CPD and develop expertise in pastoral care, safeguarding, and behaviour support.
📌 Role Details
- Salary: £26,910 per annum
- Term‑time only: 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday
- Working hours: 8:00am - 4pm
- Fixed term contract
- Local Government Pension Scheme
🎁 Additional Benefits
- Access to 250+ wellbeing, shopping, and lifestyle perks
- Tailored CPD opportunities to support your professional growth
- Competitive maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits
- Free confidential support via our Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Health Cash Plan for essential medical expenses
- Free on‑site parking
- One guaranteed paid personal day each year
If you’re ready to lead, support, and champion a year group—helping students grow into confident, responsible, and successful young people—we’d love to hear from you.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
North Oxfordshire Academy ensures a whole school approach to safeguarding. This means ensuring safeguarding and child protection are at the forefront and underpins all relevant aspects of process and policy development.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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 North Oxfordshire Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1004 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to North Oxfordshire Academy and thank you for taking an interest in developing your career with us.
For those who want to combine quick access to London and Oxford with country living, North Oxfordshire Academy is the ideal location. We are situated in Banbury, a vibrant market town steeped in history which enjoys affordable rental and house prices.
The academy sits on a 48-acre site and offers great facilities including extensive playing fields, a national standard athletics track and a 50-place nursery to which teachers benefit from heavily subsidised places.
The academy offers a great training programme for students, ECTs and Schools Direct trainees who all benefit from high-quality, supportive CPD. Our staff are optimistic, hardworking and great team players and new staff very quickly become part of the NOA family.
We pride ourselves on excellent staff retention; our staff are happy and determined to encourage the very best in our students. I would be delighted to welcome any prospective applicants to see for themselves how we work at North Oxfordshire Academy.
Ellie Jacobs, Principal
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