Pastoral Director (Head of Year)
Guildhouse School
London
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 30 April 2021
Job overview
ABOUT CATS LONDON
CATS College London is a co-educational independent day and boarding school serving international students aged 15+. The College specialises in preparing students for pre-university exams, including I/GCSEs, A Levels and the University Foundation Programme (UFP). There are approximately two hundred and fifty students on roll, class size average is nine, and students take part in an extensive range of extra-curricular activities including leadership awards and national/international competitions. The College is a member of the Independent Schools Association (ISA) and inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) and was most recently (May 2019) rated "Good". It is located in Bloomsbury Square at the heart of London and counts among its neighbours some of the world’s greatest centres of education, art, fashion and finance.
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE
As Pastoral Director (Head of Year), you will be responsible for the pastoral care, personal development and progression of a cohort of students within a defined Year Group. At CATS College London we have three Year Groups - Year 11, 12 and 13. The Pastoral Middle Management Team consists of four Pastoral Directors, with two in Year 13 due to the size of the cohort. Each Pastoral Director has a team of Personal Tutors. The designated Year Group for this post will depend on the needs of the College and the strengths of the candidate. The role will have a teaching timetable and you will need to be able offer a subject specialism of either Mathematics, Business or Economics.
Main Responsibilities:
- To manage a team of Personal Tutors (PTs) and their Personal Tutor Groups, taking ultimate responsibility for the students in those PT groups in relation to their attendance, behaviour, welfare and academic progress.
- Help to develop a Personal Development (PSHE) Programme that is worthwhile and recognised as such by students and staff and that corresponds explicitly to the ISI Framework for Personal Development, contributing to the College’s wider objectives.
- Track, monitor and continuously improve the quality of Personal Development delivered by PTs.
- Liaising with others, ensure the appropriate level of staffing in PT groups, monitoring group sizes and supporting placement of students in PT groups.
- Liaising with the Academic Management Team, ensure proposed Programme of Study/ subject change requests are managed so all stakeholders (including teachers and parents) agree, and the process is followed.
- To work with the Higher Education Officer to effectively manage student progression.
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About Guildhouse School
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GUILDHOUSE SCHOOL, LONDON
Located in Bloomsbury Square in the heart of London, Guildhouse School counts among its neighbours some of the world’s greatest centres of education, art, fashion, and finance.
The aim and vision of Guildhouse School is to be an immersive environment for ideas and creativity, where students are empowered to make a positive impact on our world – we create tomorrow’s change makers. We aim to give our students every opportunity to achieve the academic success to which they aspire. We aim to enable students to realise their goal of progressing to a university and the chance to pursue their career of choice.
The school is a co-educational independent day and boarding school catering mainly for international students aged 15+. We specialise in preparing students for university exams, including A Levels and the University Foundation Programme (UFP). We are the only school in Europe to host a Bloomberg Business Lab, complete with Bloomberg Terminals. There are approximately two hundred and thirty students on roll, class size average is nine across all programmes, and students take part in an extensive range of extra and co-curricular activities including leadership awards and national/international competitions.
The school was founded in 2011 under the name of “CATS College London”, joining CATS Cambridge and CATS Canterbury (founded in 1962) and joined by CATS Academy Boston in the US (in 2012). In October 2022 “CATS College London” rebranded to Guildhouse to better represent it's unique geography and educational offering as part of the CGS Global Schools Group.
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