Head of House/Pastoral Leader
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
Bristol, City of
- Expired
- Salary:
- Teaching Salary plus TLR 2c (currently £7,017)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2021
- Apply by:
- 27 January 2021
Job overview
The Role
Are you our new Head of House/Pastoral Leader (TLR 2c)? This post is available from 1 September 2021, to replace the current permanent post holder who has retired after many years at our school.
The School
We are a successful and heavily oversubscribed 11-18 co-educational, Church of England, comprehensive school of over 1700 students, serving families from the whole of greater Bristol and beyond. We are located at the heart of the city and have a diverse student community with considerable parental support. Our diversity is a strength and something we celebrate. The Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre currently houses more than 600 students taken from our own school and from many other schools across the City.
The School is proud of its academic record, and in 2020 86.7% of GCSE grades were at grade 4 or above. 88.2% of students achieved 5 or more grade 4s or above. 44.1% of students achieved 3 or more grade 7s or above. Sixth form results are high with a 99.7% pass rate and 88.6% at grade C or above. 64% of grades were at grade B or above 34.5% at grade A or above. Most sixth form students continue on to Higher Education, including 10 awarded Oxbridge places, and 1 going to a university in America.
Inspection Reports
The School was judged in January 2012 and again in April 2015 to be outstanding by Ofsted, and outstanding in our church school (SIAMS) inspection, in each and every category. Ofsted judged Leadership and Management, Behaviour and Safety of Pupils, Quality of Teaching, Achievement of Pupils, and Sixth Form Provision, all as Outstanding.
The Department
The House system creates smaller ‘units of belonging’ in our large school. The system is highly regarded by parents/carers, students and staff. Each Head of House has the freedom to create their own House identity through assemblies, guidance on tutor worship and House Council activities.
The Head of House will have a key role to play in maintaining and developing our outstanding pastoral system and monitoring students’ academic progress and student mentoring. We are looking for someone with the capacity to promote and develop the school’s distinctive Christian ethos, and to lead a team of tutors and create a sense of ‘belonging’ to the House. Equiano House is one of our mixed age Y8 - Y11 Houses.
Our House names reflect the diversity in our school. They are named after influential individuals, all of whom lived out our school ALIVE values. They overcame adversity and had an impact on the world. Olaudah Equiano is most well-known for publishing his autobiography in 1789, 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African'. His writings helped show people the need to abandon slavery. The House office is based on our English/Music floor.
The post is well supported with administrative help, a Deputy Head of House and an excellent team of tutors. The member of the leadership team who is linked to the House is based on the same floor as the House office. The Deputy Headteacher (Behaviour for Learning) regularly meets with Heads of House and with wider pastoral staff to share ideas, support, and practical organisation.
What We're Looking For
We seek to appoint a talented teacher and dynamic pastoral leader. We would expect candidates to be able to teach across all the key stages. We can accommodate a wide range of teaching subjects but would appreciate some flexibility initially. Please complete our Teaching Experience form to indicate which subjects you are able to teach, and at what key stages.
Find out more about the School by visiting our website www.smrt.bristol.sch.uk.
Why Work for Us
- Excellent CPD opportunities (Teaching School)
- Free parking on site (some restrictions apply)
- Central location (a 10 minute walk from Temple Meads station) with excellent transport links to all parts of the city and beyond
- Excellent support from middle and senior leaders
- Friendly community
- On site swimming pool
Application Process
The closing date for receipt of application forms is Wednesday 27 January 2021 (by 10am). Please return your application form by email direct to jobs@smrt.bristol.sch.uk. Interviews (likely to be via Zoom) are likely to be arranged for week commencing 1 February.
If you have not heard from us by the end of February, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Due to the large number of applications we receive for most of our posts we are unable to provide feedback on unsuccessful applications. We may call for references as part of our shortlisting process.
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About St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School and the Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre (SMRT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and so safeguarding checks will be undertaken as part of the recruitment and selection process. It is an offence to apply for this role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. You can find a copy of our Safeguarding Policy on our website.
Mr Planter took up the Headship in September 2022 following successful headship and executive headteacher experiences in three schools. For him, the post of Headteacher remains an incredibly rewarding one. As we emerge from the greatest social and educational disruption in our lifetime there is a clear mandate and appetite to consider our practice collectively to ensure we provide the highest quality education for all our students.
SMRT is a successful and heavily oversubscribed 11-18 co-educational, Church of England, comprehensive school of over 1750 students, serving families from the whole of greater Bristol and beyond. We are located at the heart of the city and have a diverse student community with considerable parental support. Our diversity is a strength and something we celebrate. The Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre currently houses approximately 700 students from our own school and from many other schools across the City.
Our Christian ethos is at the centre of our distinctiveness and success. We believe that daily worship helps us get our priorities right. The School has a clearly identified set of values that are reflected in our pastoral and curriculum practice. The School is committed to developing students as whole people and lifelong learners. To facilitate this SMRT has developed the Alive model, which seeks to develop competencies, values, and skills in our students to support their development as ‘fully alive’ learners. The role of the tutor is key, and teachers are expected to be tutors.
At SMRT we believe that each member of our School community is created by God and our aim is to achieve our full potential (being fully alive). All we do is rooted in this hope of who we are as people and who we can become. We are particularly inspired by Jesus’ statement ‘I have come that you might have life and life in all its fullness’ (John 10 v10) and Irenaeus’ ‘the glory of God is a human being fully alive’. This is an exciting time to join SMRT as we work with renewed focus and energy to fulfil our core purpose enabling our students “to develop the skills, knowledge and Alive qualities so that all our students can make their unique contribution to the world.”
We are passionate about providing opportunity for all staff to develop. Staff are encouraged to develop leadership roles, including working with, and helping to improve, other local schools. All leaders contribute extremely well to improving teaching and learning. SMRT invests heavily and productively in ensuring that staff and leaders have every opportunity to develop their expertise for the benefit of students. Professional development for staff is extremely well planned and implemented; it is linked closely to teachers’ targets for improvement.
SMRT was judged in April 2015 to be outstanding by Ofsted in each and every category. We were also judged outstanding in our last church school (SIAMS) inspection in March 2017. Despite this there is absolutely no sense of complacency. We are a forward-looking school with a relentless focus on providing the absolute best provision so that no child is left behind.
Ofsted remarked that “Church school status makes an important and distinctive contribution to the school’s exceptionally positive values and beliefs. Leaders and the highly effective governing body ensure that students’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development are given the highest possible priority.” “The promotion of students’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural education is extremely impressive and contributes enormously to the welcoming ethos of the school. Equality of opportunity is vigorously promoted; discrimination in any form is not tolerated. Students are highly reflective about matters of faith and personal responsibility; their social awareness is remarkably perceptive.”
SMRT was fortunate to be part of ‘Building Schools for the Future’ Wave 4 and we moved into a significant new block in early November 2010. This houses Music, Computer Science, Design Technology, Science, Art, English, Maths, Learning Resource Centre, PE, and staff facilities. In addition we have a sports hall, as well as a gym and a swimming pool. Humanities and Languages are housed in a refurbished 1980s building which is also the base for Year 7 students. We also have a large Sixth Form block.
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