Head of Year
Myton School
Warwick, Warwickshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS TLR 1.2
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September
- Apply by:
- 10 April 2025
Job overview
From September - TLR 1.2 (£12,033) plus teaching responsibility – 1.00FTE
Do you have a desire to work within a large pastoral team and develop strong relationships with students and their families? Are you ready for your next challenge? If the answer is yes, then joining our team of 5 Heads of Year, and working alongside our highly experienced and supportive wider team of student welfare and support, safeguarding, work related learning, character development and behaviour might be just the opportunity you are looking for! As one of our five Heads of Year, through energetic and innovative leadership, you will develop the ethos unique to your allocated year of approximately 275 students. You will be instrumental in delivering Myton’s core aims and ensure that students make outstanding progress by removing barriers to their personal, social or learning development.
You will need significant experience in building positive and trusting relationships with young people and be able to use a range of strategies to manage challenging behaviour and difficult situations, as well as the skills and confidence to communicate effectively with large audiences. You will also be an inspirational leader of others, able to enthuse and engage colleagues in a shared vision for, and culture of, improving achievement and also challenge and support colleagues appropriately.
As well as being academic, we are also highly inclusive and want all students to develop a love for learning. As a happy and purposeful community, we offer students an exciting curriculum and a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities within a safe, secure and supportive environment. With enduring values of care and mutual respect we support hard-working staff as well as students and families.
Our team are also looking to welcome a motivated teacher, with a keen interest in encouraging and inspiring students to love learning and excel. We have an extremely active staff wellbeing group who organise events and Teaching and Learning team who provide incentives for sharing best practice.
Myton is a very popular, high performing school with academy status, situated between Warwick and Leamington Spa. As a happy and purposeful community, we offer students an exciting curriculum and a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities within a safe, secure and supportive environment.
If you are not familiar with Myton yet, or want to find out more about the role, please contact us to find out more. Our Deputy Head, Mrs Liz Curtis, is keen to hear from you via Curtis.l@myton.co.uk.
To apply, go to
Teaching Vacancies - Myton School
For any queries, please email vacancies@myton.co.uk (or tel: 01926 493805 ext. 225/209).
Closing date is 9.00am, 10 April 2025. Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the date stated should a successful candidate be appointed.
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About Myton School
Myton School is a larger than average, popular, co-educational school where students of all abilities, aptitudes and social backgrounds thrive and achieve. Our community is based upon high expectations of learning and behaviour which are underpinned by our pastoral systems, ensuring all students are individually known and supported. We believe that all students should be equally valued in school and we pride ourselves on creating an atmosphere where every student can flourish.
Support for new colleagues is excellent at Myton. We have a well-established induction programme and we’re highly committed to the ongoing professional development of our entire staff. We support and value one another in contributing to a culture which is always seeking new ways to improve and develop.
We have a well-equipped school site with two main adjacent buildings and separate purpose-built facilities for PE, Design Technology, Science and English. We also have a specially designed Performing Arts Centre. Our extensive playing fields include two full-size football pitches, a floodlit astro-turf pitch and the John Atkinson Sports Hall.
Warwickshire is a wonderful place to live and work. The towns of Warwick and Leamington offer a great combination of green spaces, historical buildings, leisure facilities and a wide variety of shops, bars and restaurants. There, is a great local road network with the nearby M40 and A46, as well as a fast train links with Birmingham and London. In 2020 Leamington Spa was named by the Sunday Times as one of the best places to live in the UK due to its elegant architecture and cutting-edge technology.
Please explore our website - www.mytonschool.co.uk - to gain a flavor of what it means to be part of the Myton School community. We sincerely hope that you will be inspired to apply to join us.
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