Director of Learning (Head Of Year)

CENTRAL FOUNDATION BOYS’ SCHOOL

Cowper Street

Old Street

London EC2A 4SH

NOR: 1150

Salary: Leadership scale L10 – L14 (£67,880pa - £77,933pa)

Hours: Full-time

Start date: September 2024

DIRECTOR OF LEARNING (HEAD OF YEAR)

Central Foundation is located on the Old Street Silicon Roundabout and at the heart of the Tech City, which offers a range of amazing opportunities for our students. We are seeking to appoint Director of Learning to join our pastoral team. The successful candidate will look after one Year group as the students progress through the years. The successful candidate will join our extended pastoral leadership team.

Directors of Learning are responsible for the pastoral and academic overview of their Year group, including responsibility for the students’ learning experience, their progression across this learning experience, their learning behaviour, their development as individuals in terms of their character and attributes, their attendance, punctuality and other aspects of their welfare.

About Central Foundation:

Located on the Old Street Silicon Roundabout and at the heart of the Tech City, the School is a high performing comprehensive and one of the top performing non-selective, all boys school in the country. The students’ outcomes have been consistently outstanding both at KS4 and KS5. In 2023, the P8 for Year 11 cohort was 0.55.

We offer a broad curriculum with a focus on academic subjects as well as vocational education. Our extra-curricular provision supports the student experience in classroom. Sport, Music, Drama, Art, Coding, Debating or Cooking are very popular with our students who over the years developed their talents and skills in many subject areas.

The School has a strong sense of community and a diverse student body.

Benefits we offer:

• Inner London Weighting Allowance
• Opportunities of promotion, including an award of a TLR for taking on additional responsibilities within a department or across the school
• Coaching programme to support professional development (replacing the three performance management lesson observations a year)
• Designated team to support new colleagues and ECTs
• Workload-friendly assessment policy
• Centralised teaching resources significantly reducing the teacher’s workload and supporting collaboration within the departments
• Generous allocation of preparation and marking time
• Centralised detention system
• Administrative support with certain departmental tasks
• Travel loans
• Cycle scheme
• Free on-site pilates classes
• Gym membership scheme
• Free gym facilities on site available before and after school
• Childcare vouchers scheme
• Pension scheme
• On site car-park (limited spaces) and cycle storage
• Great location with Old Street (1 min away on foot), Liverpool Street (10 min) and Moorgate (10 min) stations nearby

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced criminal record check and other pre-employment vetting checks. The school’s safeguarding policy can be found on https://www.centralfoundationboys.co.uk/about/policies-and-safeguarding/

The successful candidate will be required to comply with safeguarding responsibilities as set out in the job description.

This post is covered by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Orders from time to time enacted and in force. The successful candidate will be required to disclose ’spent' as well as ’unspent' criminal convictions (which are not ‘protected’), cautions and any pending prosecutions against them in line with the requirements that will be provided to them if shortlisted. 

Please download an application pack from TES website or contact the school on 02072533741 / e-mail khanm@cfbs.islington.sch.uk.

Applications should be sent to the school address FAO HR Manager or emailed to khanm@cfbs.islington.sch.uk.

Closing date: 16th April 2024