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Assistant Head of Year

Assistant Head of Year

The Stockwood Park Academy

Luton

  • £23,541 - £25,991 per year
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  • Expired
Salary:
NJC L5:15-20 £23,541-£25,991 FTE dependent on actual experience actual pro-rata salary £21,276-£23,491
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
asap
Apply by:
5 October 2021

Job overview

Assistant Head of Year


The Stockwood Park Academy are currently looking to recruit an Assistant Head of Year to join our team as soon as possible. This is a pastoral role where you will assist the Head of Year to ensure significant academic progress and excellent behaviour of students across a year group. To succeed in this role, you will be able to inspire and motivate students to excel in their education and have high expectations of what students can achieve. You will be part of the pastoral team, led by a Senior Head of Year and includes Heads of Years and Assistant Heads of Year. The Stockwood Park Academy are proud of the unrivalled education experience offered. You will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership, an encouraging and enthusiastic staff body and enterprising students. Our academy has state of the art facilities, fit for all your teaching needs. ‘We recognise talent, recruit for attitude and train you for the skills’ If you want to grow and develop in a fast paced, dynamic and successful Academy, come and join us at The Stockwood Park Academy!




Key Duties


• Track student progress, behaviour, attendance and punctuality data and support follow up and intervention • Mentor identified students in and where appropriate across Year Teams • Support staff in the management of student behaviour • Communicate and meet with staff, parents and carers and outside agencies • Support the Head of Year in the consistency of student rewards and awards


The successful candidate will have


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills • Energy, commitment and attention to detail • A good sense of humour and the ability to diffuse potentially difficult situations with ease • An understanding of how an effective pastoral system underpins high academic achievement • A ‘can do’ attitude, hard-worker • Resilience and the ability to work as part of a team • Passionate about pastoral support • Can run intervention to support students needing additional support • Local community knowledge would be beneficial • Those who can run clubs/extra curriculum welcome


Job Specifics


Start date asap Salary NJC L5:15-20 £23,541-£25,991 FTE dependent on actual experience actual pro-rata salary £21,276-£23,491 Job Role Permanent, Full-time Term-time 5 INSET days plus 2 weeks


The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.


Why work for Stockwood Park Academy?


• £30 million state of the art building with well-equipped classrooms • You’ll be working alongside a collaborative, forward thinking Principal and Senior Leadership Team who are here to support and develop you • Unparalleled CPD opportunities with free courses every Thursday catered to your developmental needs • Excellent opportunities to develop and grow in a successful and expanding Academy • All teaching staff receive a laptop to use whilst in employment • Freshly brewed coffee for staff on arrival to the academy every morning • Employee of the month scheme winning shopping vouchers • Fantastic staff benefits that make a difference to your work life balance


Safeguarding


‘We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’. The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer. The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding. Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as: “Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.” The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.



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About The Stockwood Park Academy

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Welcome to The Stockwood Park Academy, part of The Shared Learning Trust.

Join us:

This is an exciting time to join The Stockwood Park Academy Teaching Team led by Principal, Mumin Humayun.  Your colleagues are friendly, highly experienced subject experts and enjoy the teacher comradery. You will make friends and mentors for life.  Join us and share the love of your subject, because you enjoy working with young people, you want to make a real difference and inspire the next generation.  We strive for creativity in the classroom and above all making the whole journey fun!

· Location; right next to Junction 10 of the M1, close to Stockwood Park Golf Course, Luton Rugby Club and the Luton Hoo.

· Bus service

· Ample staff parking

· £30 million state of the art schooling facility

Staff benefits:

· Pension

· Work laptop

· Car wash service

· Once a quarter, Indian head or shoulder massage

· Amazon/Delivery drop-off service

· Dry Cleaning service

· Staff wellbeing and Counsellor

· Perkbox:

o Medical 24/7 Doctor appointments

o Private and repeat prescriptions

o Save money on everyday purchases

o Online exercise classes

o Employee Support Hub by Health Assured, giving you 24/7 access to qualified therapists

o Competitions to enter

Vision and Values:

'Strive, achieve, believe!' - We want our children to strive for their goals, achieve those goals and believe that with the right drive and motivation anything is possible. We provide opportunities for all our students and adults to be aspirational and develop a passion and excitement for learning. Working with our communities, we ensure all students are able to achieve beyond their targets to reach the success they deserve. Our students develop a strong self-belief so that they flourish and develop into well-rounded, self-respecting young people.

'We recruit people for attitude and train for skills' - We aim to recruit people who have the right attitude. If you have a love for teaching and are passionate about seeing children succeed, we can help you do the rest. We can offer custom-made support packages that focus on the quality of teaching and learning, curriculum development and all aspects of Leadership and Management. Whether you would like help with planning, preparing and delivering outstanding lessons, building your confidence within the classroom or developing your behaviour management strategies, we have all the CPD and training you need.

Our 5 academies are as follows:

The Vale Academy, Dunstable 2-11

The Rushmere Park Academy, Leighton Buzzard 2-9

The Linden Academy, Luton 4-11

The Chalk Hills Academy, Luton 11-18

The Stockwood Park Academy, Luton 11-18

We also offer a fantastic Sixth Form provision for students aged between 16-19, and this is based at both The Stockwood and The Chalk Hills Academy.  Including in our Sixth Form provision is our Football Academy Pathway and brand-new Cricket Academy Pathway.

The Teaching Trust Teacher training based at The Chalk Hills Academy and is offered to all our colleagues should they be successful.

CPD and Training: Our Teaching Trust - WE INVEST IN YOU!

All of our Academies at The Shared Learning Trust are a part of our Teaching Trust. We aim to offer exception teacher training and high quality professional development programmes to new and experienced staff to support them in excelling in their career.

Our programmes are facilitated by experienced school leaders, who have exemplary records in leadership and improving outcomes for their students. We are able to cater for specific requests and can offer custom-made support packages that focus on the quality of teaching and learning, curriculum development and aspects of Leadership and Management.

We currently offer 'The National Award for Middle Leaders', 'The Outstanding Teacher Programme', 'The Improving Teacher Programme' and 'The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership'. As Stockwood Park Academy is part of a Multi-Academy Trust, there are fantastic opportunities to climb the career ladder. The Shared Learning Trust are a firm believer in helping all staff reach their full potential and developing their career within our Academies. If you are willing and wanting, we will do all we can to put you on the relevant courses and give you the right opportunities so you can keep achieving more in your career. If there isn't a current opportunity at The Stockwood Park Academy for promotion, there will be opportunities to move to one of our partner Academies.

The Sports Zone:

· 2 Football Pitches (floodlit, FA approved, full size and 3G Astro Turf)

· Large Outdoor Hard Court

· Four Tennis Courts

· Three Netball Courts

· Full Size Basketball Court

· Full Size Netball Court

· Four Badminton Court

· Large Indoor Football Pitch

The Performance Plaza:

· Theatre (tiered seating, professional lighting and sound system, curtains and backstage changing facilities)

· Dance and Fitness Studio (sprung floors, dances barres, floor to ceiling mirrors, full PA and music systems)

Classroom Facilities:

· Projectors

· Smart Boards

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