Head of Year (Non Teaching)
Worcester Sixth Form College
Worcestershire
- £29,452 - £31,353 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Sixth Form Colleges' Support Staff Salary Spine points 19 -21
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 30th August 2022
- Apply by:
- 27 June 2022
Job overview
We are looking for a Head of Year with excellent leadership skills to play a leading role in the work of the pastoral and safeguarding support teams at the College. Working as part of a team of three Heads of Year and seven Pastoral Tutors, Heads of Year play a key role in ensuring that the pastoral system achieves its goals. Heads of Year act as a point of support, advice and guidance for the team of Pastoral Tutors and deal with initial referrals from Pastoral Tutors for students with complex issues. They will support and promote equality and diversity, safeguarding and child protection awareness within the College; help to maintain and promote good discipline; help to develop a culture of mutual support; and share best practice within the lead tutor and personal tutor team.
Heads of Year also act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSLs) and will work with the Designated Safeguarding Lead and the wider safeguarding team.
Worcester Sixth Form College has over 1500 full-time 16-19 students and an excellent reputation for its results and extra-curricular provision. Rated Ofsted good in 2016; the College had the highest achievement rate of any sixth form college (4th highest nationally) in the last set of external results in 2019. The College is part of the Heart of Mercia Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), formed on 1 April 2019 and delivers post 16 education in Hereford, Stourbridge and Worcester. The MAT has an annual budget of £28m and serves the needs of 5,500 students across the region.
The successful applicant must possess the knowledge, energy, resilience and enthusiasm for such an important role and have experience of managing pastoral and welfare related services, working with a range of client groups and a solutions-focussed approach. A track record of working within a child protection/safeguarding context and liaison with multi-agencies to help safeguard young people and enable them to succeed at College is desirable. You will have experience of working with young people and successfully contributing to the success of a team.
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including two satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced criminal records with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
PLEASE NOTE INTERVIEWS ARE SCHEDULED FOR WEEK COMMENCING 4th JULY
Safeguarding Statement
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including two satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced criminal records with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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About Worcester Sixth Form College
- Worcester Sixth Form College
- Spetchley Road, Worcester
- Worcestershire
- WR5 2LU
- United Kingdom
Worcester Sixth Form College is proud to be part of Heart of Mercia Multi-Academy Trust and supports the Trust’s vision of providing a range of excellent learning opportunities within the region, in a positive, friendly and tolerant culture that will equip them to fulfil their potential and meet their individual goals. In order to achieve this vision, Heart of Mercia is committed to sustaining high achieving sixth form colleges as the best environment for the personal, academic and career development for 16 to 19 year olds.
At Worcester Sixth Form College, we are specialists in the education of 16-19 year olds and our staff are experts in meeting the needs of this age group. Every year we admit 800 or so students from the whole county of Worcestershire and from surrounding areas. This enables us to offer an exceptionally wide range of courses and flexible programmes in which any course can be combined with virtually any other course. Our students are highly successful, not just academically, but in many other kinds of endeavour, including sports, performing arts, music, Duke of Edinburgh, charity fund raising and a wide variety of other extra-curricular areas.
· Academies in Sports, Performing Arts, Maths and Science
· A long track record of supporting students with learning needs in achieving their full potential
For further details please refer to our website.
Equality
We are proud to be an inclusive organisation where individual differences are accepted and valued and where everyone is able to fulfil their potential in a welcoming, safe and non threatening environment. Worcester Sixth Form College is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for students, employers, community groups, staff, governors, members of the public and for others who come into contact with the College.
The College is an equal opportunities employer and staff, students, volunteers and workers are expected to respect the principles of open access and opportunity for all regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Applications from members of the ethnic minorities would be particularly welcome as they are currently under represented in our workforce.
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