Senior Head of Year non teaching

Senior Head of Year - Character Culture & Resilience Behaviour

The Stockwood Park Academy have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Head of Year to join their pastoral team.  We are seeking a confident, impactful and assured leader to monitor and evaluate the standards of achievement, attendance, behaviour and welfare across all year groups within Key Stages 3 and 4.  To achieve this end, you will engage with students, parents and the staff body, to implement best practices to record and identify areas of development.  The successful candidate will lead a team of five Year Leaders to ensure continuity and progression across the year groups. Also managing a number of pastoral and associate staff.  This is a non-teaching post and will suit a dynamic individual who will lead from the front in all areas of the pastoral curriculum.      

At The Stockwood Park Academy, we are extremely proud of the excellent education experience offered.  You will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership and encouraging and enthusiastic staff body who work tirelessly to see you succeed.  It’s incredibly important to us here at The Stockwood Park Academy that all our staff are valued, listened to, mentored, challenged and given adequate opportunities to develop. As a Teaching Trust, we offer exceptional, high-quality professional development programmes catered to your needs.

Key Duties

Monitor and line-manage year leaders to ensure continuity, progression and transition across all key stages

Monitor attendance across Key Stages 3 & 4 and ensure pastoral teams undertake timely actions.

Monitor Persistent Absence across year groups and undertake timely interventions

Lead on all aspects of the admissions interviews protocol arranging/meeting/monitoring the mid-year transition process

Oversee key aspects of behavior management, inclusion and the reporting process to ensure the Academy’s behavioural standards are consistently good or better

Oversee the Academy detentions process as required by the Vice Principal

The successful candidate will have

·        Strong work ethic – reliable – good attendance record.

·        Have experience of working in educational pastoral setting, ideally within a large, diverse secondary school

·        Either QTS OR a proven track record of non-teaching educational leadership

·        Have a good honours degree – Desirable or be education to A-level standard  

·        Have experience of managing other employees’ performance

·        Be able to work on one’s own initiative and balance competing priorities

·        Confident, excellent leadership presence and skilled negotiator

·        Good written and verbal communication

·        Excellent knowledge of behaviour management systems and structures – the ability to diffuse situations and an expert in restorative justice.

·        Good use of IT and school/academy information systems including SIMs

·        Experienced as a Head of Year or Pastoral Leader – teaching OR non-teaching

·        Ability to line-lead a team professionally/able to meet with parents and carers and communicate difficult messages clearly

·        Excellent understanding of accountability

·        Knowledge of attendance and admissions systems an advantage

·        Commitment to the highest standards of Child Protection

Job Specifics

Start date  January 2021

Salary         NJC L7-M2 26-32 £30,451-£35,745 FTE dependent on actual experience actual pro-rata £26,234-£30,794

Salary         Leadership Scale for a qualified teacher L1-4 £42,195 - £45,434 

Job Role    Permanent, Full-time Term-time and includes 5 INSET days

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Why work for Stockwood Park Academy?

·        £30 million state of the art building with well-equipped classrooms

·        You’ll be working alongside a collaborative, forward thinking Principal and Senior Leadership Team who are here to support and develop you

·        Unparalleled CPD opportunities with free courses every Thursday catered to your developmental needs

·       Excellent opportunities to develop and grow in a successful and expanding Academy

·        All teaching staff receive a laptop to use whilst in employment

·        Freshly brewed coffee for staff on arrival to the academy every morning

·        Employee of the month scheme winning shopping vouchers

·        Fantastic staff benefits that make a difference to your work life balance

Safeguarding

‘We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.  Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:  “Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.