Assistant Head of Year

Assistant Head of Year

Job Type:               Permanent

Salary/Grade: Grade D, scale point 8 - 14  (£20,852 - £23,484 FTE per annum)

Hours:                 35 hours per week x 39 weeks per year

Application Deadline: Midnight on Tuesday 31st May 2022

Job Start Date: As soon as possible 

Stoke Damerel is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers and learners. Our students, staff and governors believe that Stoke Damerel is a very special college - caring, happy, aspirational. We have an excellent teaching and support staff team who demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, within and beyond our curriculum. 

The Greenshaw Learning Trust is a forward thinking, dynamic and growing organisation and is ambitious for its staff. This is an exciting time for us as we grow and develop and we are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive environment for our staff, as well as our students. 

We are looking for an Assistant Head of Year to provide pastoral support and guidance for all students within the specified year group.  To work with the Head of Year to maximise student achievements and attainment across the college.  You must be able to establish excellent relationships with pupils, parents and colleagues, and work well within a team.

Main duties and responsibilities 

• Have a visible presence around school, during breaks and lunchtimes and in tutor groups to reinforce school expectations and standards 
• To provide cover for lessons during the day, or in the Recovery Centre. 
• To work with Head of Year to ensure that the tutor time reading programme and curriculum collapse is being delivered to a high standard in a consistent way by the tutor team 
• To actively enforce the uniform policy with the Head of Year and take daily firm and consistent action to ensure that students wear appropriate uniform at all times 
• To work with tutors and Head of Year to ensure that students are ready to learn and equipped appropriately for their learning, including pencil cases, reading book and homework. 
• To support year assemblies as relevant and develop a year group ethos with the Head of Year 
• To actively supervise students whilst on duty during the school day 
• To liaise with parents/carers, staff, students and other stakeholders as needed in a timely and professional manner in relation to all aspects of students’ pastoral care. 
• To ensure students feel safe in school and follow school safeguarding policies and processes required. 
• To deputise for the Head of Year in their absence. 
• Support with the consistent application of the disruption free learning policy and any 
• relevant policies related to student behaviour. 
• To ensure effective communication with parents/carers by making phone calls home to engage parents with the behaviour of their children and to inform them of poor behaviour. 
• To support in the documentation and procedures for exclusions including referrals for managed moves where appropriate. 
• Advise staff on behaviour issues and behavioural traits of individual students. 
• To support students in developing individual behaviour plans and disseminate these amongst staff. 
• To support duties and detention system. 
• To monitor patterns of behaviour and lead on students’ behaviour reports within the specified year group. 
• To support the school’s rewards system and attend rewards assemblies where necessary 
• To support as necessary within the Recovery Centre. 
• Undertake student registration as required. 
• Be responsible for the consistent application of the Attendance Policy and promote good student attendance across the specified year group through the rewards policy and attendance displays. 
• Liaise with the Attendance Officer regarding communication over attendance with students and support interventions to tackle students with attendance below the school target. 
• Advise tutors within the specified year group on attendance figures and individual student issues with attendance and punctuality. 
• Liaise with parents and any appropriate agencies on attendance issues. 
• To take an active role in the application of firm procedures for managing the punctuality of students to school in the mornings and to lessons throughout the day. 
• Liaise with parents and initiate and monitor appropriate interventions to manage punctuality. 
• Collect students if required from home to support reintegration back to school.

 Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

You will have access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme and a full range of staff benefits 

To apply for a staff vacancy, please register for an online account to complete the application form. Please visit our website www.greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk/join-us/staff 

If you require further details please email hr@sdcc.net 

Interview date:  TBC