Skip to main content
Tes home
SearchBack to search
Non-Teaching Head of Year

Non-Teaching Head of Year

Atherton High School

Wigan

  • £19,435 - £22,771 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
Green book
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
1st September 2022
Apply by:
12 July 2022

Job overview

Head of Year - working 40 weeks per year, 37 hours per week

Atherton High School wishes to appoint a hardworking, enthusiastic and committed Head of Year. If you are experienced, enthusiastic, open to new ideas and have a flexible ‘can do’ approach, we would welcome an application from you.


What does this job do?

  • To support, hold accountable and develop a team of tutors focusing on high standards and expectations of social and personal development of students.
  • To provide supervision and guidance and learning opportunities in all non-lesson-based activities.
  • To lead both the team of tutors and cohort of students ,giving a clear vision and direction to work, identifying key areas for improvement and planning appropriate actions to meet them.
  • To monitor the quality of learning experienced by the year group, liaising with heads of departments and offering support and guidance where necessary.
  • To implement specific targeted programmes of teaching or intervention through liaison with the with the relevant staff members.  


“If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, we want you to work for Education Partnership Trust.”


What are the job requirements?

  • To monitor the attitude to learning of the year group in order to promote academic rigour.
  • To have an overview of the range of barriers to learning that impacting on student progress, with reference to behaviour for learning, in and out of the classroom.
  • To monitor the effectiveness of these interventions and report to Head of key stage termly on the progress being made by students in the year group.
  • To liaise with key staff regarding all groups of students’ behaviour in the year group, with particular reference to groups of students referenced in the School Improvement Plan.
  • To act as a role model for tutors by demonstrating high quality pastoral care, monitoring of students, continuous professional development and professional presence in the team. 
  •  Working with other HOY, lead the isolation and on call behaviour systems in response to pupils breaching school behaviour policy.
  • To have an overview of all the different care and guidance for students’ this includes attendance, early help and other relevant interventions.
  • To design, implement and complete bespoke strategies towards improving individual pupils behaviour.


About Us

The Education Partnership Trust (EPT) was established in 2012 as a not-for-profit multi-academy trust and approved academy sponsor. Our vision is to create outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities.

Our pupils come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our schools and Trust stronger.


Why you should work here - benefits

  • Employee cash back plan provided free by the Trust includes optical, dental, physio, diagnostics, health assessment, NHS prescription charges, hospital cover, discounted gym memberships plus lots more.
  • 6 sessions of free counselling including CBT, wellbeing and bereavement.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Access to government pension schemes.
  • Free parking.
  • Training and development including emerging leaders programmes.

 

Incomplete application forms will not be shortlisted, if you need to discuss a reason for being unable to complete a section, please contact the recruitment team HR@ept-uk.com

Education Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.

Education Partnership Trust is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Attached documents

About Atherton High School

School image 1
School image 2
School image 3
+44 194 288 5500

View on Google Maps

Visit employer website

Headteachers Welcome!


Welcome to Atherton High School. Our school sits at the heart of the community and encompasses the values and strengths of the town’s proud history. Atherton High School is part of the Education Partnership Trust (EPT), who are committed to creating outstanding schools which transform learning, lives, and communities.


Our school has a culture built around our values of respect, responsibility, and ambition; these core values underpin all we do. We promote our values through a strong, knowledge rich curriculum, whereby pupils develop depth of understanding across a wide range of subjects, to enable an ambitious education for all learners.


We are blessed with dedicated, talented, and highly qualified staff who expect the highest standards and academic effort from all our pupils. We encourage our pupils to take responsibility for their actions, decisions, and their future education and in doing so, we are providing an education for life. We believe every pupil is an individual that can achieve well; this is their responsibility, but we will support them every step of the way!


We are proud of our pupils and proud of our school. We expect pupils to demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour so that everyone can learn, free from disruption or barriers. We want all our pupils to feel safe and to develop into caring, responsible, and confident young people. Pupils will be given a wealth of opportunities to experience culture beyond their experience so that they may develop holistically.


Support for each other is a key component of any thriving community. We are proud to serve our local community. Our facilities are accessed by local clubs and organisations to help deliver important extracurricular opportunities to develop pupils beyond school. We are also proud of the many pupils who enrich local community groups and offer a great deal to the wider community as a result. We are committed to working closely with our pupils, families, partner schools and the wider community to contribute positively to the local area and ensure the best possible outcomes for the young people of Atherton.


Atherton High is a highly successful 11 – 16 school and over the past three years has achieved the following:

• Judged as ‘Good’ in all categories of the Ofsted framework in January 2024.

• Outcomes category move from ‘well below average’ to ‘average’ and the most improved outcomes in Wigan authority.

• Established as the ‘school of choice’ in the local area, oversubscribed in every year group and waiting lists across all cohorts.


I am incredibly proud to be Headteacher of Atherton High School and would be delighted to welcome you to see our school in action.

Leanne Turner

Headteacher

Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.

Applications closed