Head of Year

THE ROLE

Future Academies Watford has an exciting opportunity available for an ambitious Head of Year (Teaching).

As our Head of Year, your role will be to secure the effective care of the social, emotional and learning needs of all individual students within a year group. The overriding role is to remove barriers to learning and to promote the ethos of a happy academy where everyone succeeds. In addition, you will provide strong leadership and management and ensure high quality student intervention, which results in high student standards and achievement.

The Head of Year will lead on:  

• All aspects of safeguarding to ensure that every student within the year group remains safe: this will involve undertaking child protection investigations, working collaboratively with external agencies and other members of the academy safeguarding team and other duties as required by the Vice Principal, Behaviour.  
• Planning interventions around behaviour, attendance and address, and key pastoral issues that arise within the year group: this will include supervising individual support plans, Pastoral Support Plans, Risk Assessment Management Programmes (RAMPS); and Safety and Support Plans (SSPs).  
• Arrangement of appropriate support to be given to individual students with regard to their progress within school, for example: EAL support, places to work out of school hours, one-to-one tutoring, counselling, Connexions advice.  
• Communication with parents and carers around key behaviour and pastoral issues.  
• The collaborative planning of an ambitious and appropriate tutoring programme for the year group.  
• Holding form tutors to account for the quality of the tutoring programme.  
• Mentoring students within the year group in support of the learning process.  
• Overseeing the enrolment and induction of new students within their year group.  
• Leading assemblies for their year group.  
• Leading members of the year team, including regular team meetings and development sessions.  
• Ensuring the Tutor lessons are of high quality each day for all tutor groups.    
• Regularly evaluate the year group developments and achievements. Produce regular summary reports focusing on attendance, behaviour, progress, rewards and standards and present current progress against targets to the Senior Leadership Team as required  
• Take an active lead in planning, co-ordinating and leading all events relating to the year group. Examples of these evenings and events are parent’s evenings, exams, residential trips, option evenings etc.  
• Embed the Academy culture and classroom culture across the year group.

WHO WE ARE

Future Academies Watford is set in leafy Hertfordshire, is well connected with many transport links and a short train journey away from the centre of London. Working at our Academy will give you the opportunity to work alongside outstanding teachers, to observe and share practice on a regular basis, developing pedagogy through reflection. We pride ourselves on our strong ethos and sense of community. Our school community offers the opportunity to become a meaningful part of the wider community through enrichment and extra-curricular activities. 

We are part of Future Academies, a Multi-Academy Trust which includes three primary schools and seven secondary schools in and around London and Hertfordshire. We are motivated by a mission of social change and reducing educational inequality. We are unique in our approach to a knowledge-rich curriculum; our school motto is libertas per cultum (freedom through education), and in our strong emphasis on raising young people’s aspirations and outcomes through the teaching of classical and traditional subjects. Our children and young people study a bespoke curriculum developed by researchers at our Curriculum Centre, which places a focus on developing their cultural literacy and their awareness of the forces, words and events that have shaped our society today.

THE BENEFITS       

• The chance to make a difference to children’s and young people’s lives. Future Academies is of the belief that all children have the right to enriching education through a knowledge-rich and child-centric approach: our staff can therefore make a dramatic impact on the lives of these children.       
• Fast career progression. Because knowledge and intelligence, rather than length of service, are lauded and rewarded at Future Academies, teachers and support staff can quickly take up great responsibility, adding to their already exceptional experience and knowledge, joining the SLT or writing for the Trust’s Curriculum Centre, where our in-house textbooks are produced.       
• Excellent CPD. The Trust is knowledge-centric and encourages CPD at all levels with excellent opportunities for swift career progression, within the Academy and Trust. This includes Leadership Development opportunities.       
• Knowledge-rich staff team. You will be working with a supportive leadership team, cohesive staff body, and very purposeful environment with excellent resources. Being part of a Trust of schools enables you to share knowledge across a wider range of educational professionals.

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in applying for the post of Head of Year at Future Academies Watford, please click on the Apply button to complete an online application form. 

We look forward to receiving your application.

Closing date: 9am on Wednesday 2nd February 2022

Future Academies reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the advert closing date.

As an educational trust, Future Academies is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of all children and young people. Therefore, the trust expects all members of staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.  To this end, both an ‘Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service’ check and a ‘Barred List’ check will be required for this role.