Year Group Leader / Teacher
Oakwood School
Horley, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- TMPS/UPS Fringe
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 5 March 2025
Job overview
Oakwood School has the following Teaching Staff Vacancy:
Year Group Leader / Teacher
Salary: TMPS/UPS Fringe plus TLR 2C
Start Date: September 2025
We have a vacancy for a full-time Year Group Leader starting in September 2025. The person appointed to this role will teach their specialist subject alongside this leadership responsibility. Applicants with specialisms in Maths, English or Design Technology would be preferable.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an inspiring and compassionate leader with a genuine passion for supporting young people. As a Year Group Leader, your key responsibilities will be: supporting student progress and academic achievement; overseeing the provision of effective pastoral care; leading and managing the year Tutor Team, and maintaining the year group ethos. You will work within a strong and successful team of four other Year Group Leaders with a strong, supportive pastoral team.
We are looking for colleagues who are:
- Highly successful classroom practitioners
- Enthusiastic and hardworking team players
- Able to achieve high levels of student engagement, challenge and progress
- Inspirational with the ability to motivate students
In return, we offer:
- A supportive and collaborative working environment
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression
- Discounted gym membership
- Supportive wellbeing committee
- Free on-site parking and electric charging point
- Close proximity to the mainline station
- Plentiful staff enrichment activities
This is an exciting time to be joining Oakwood, as it continues to progress towards becoming a great school in the future.
For more information, we encourage you to visit the school website. If you would like informal discussions with relevant staff, please contact us on recruitment@oakwood.surrey.sch.uk
Submit your application no later than: Midday Wednesday 5th March 2025
Interviews: Week commencing 10th March 2025
PLEASE NOTE, INTERVIEWS MAY TAKE PLACE SOONER FOR THE RIGHT CANDIDATE SO PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
For an application pack, please visit our website or email recruitment@oakwood.surrey.sch.uk
Curriculum Vitae will not be accepted
Oakwood School reserves the right to withdraw this advert early should circumstances change.
Oakwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).
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About Oakwood School
Headteacher: Jon Gladstone
Horley is a small town close to Gatwick Airport with very good transport links for the A23 and the mainline rail to London. We are also in easy reach of Brighton (about 40 minutes) and the M25 is about 20 minutes away (if the traffic is clear). Horley is currently undergoing a regeneration project as approximately 2,000 houses are due to be built here over the next three years which will offer the opportunity for further improvement in the educational vision for our children.
Our website, which has been developed to include as much information as possible, has many features which will give you a flavour of Oakwood. You will see we are a very open community which cares very much about the students’ progress. To this end, we continue to work hard to ensure that students reach their potential and really enjoy their time at Oakwood.
It is an exciting time for Oakwood as we focus on ensuring we have high quality support for teaching so that our students all make good progress. We are a motivated team of professionals all aiming to ‘Achieve Excellence Together’ (these words were chosen by the whole school community to show our shared vision).
Relationships are very important to us all and we really care about the students and each other. Therefore, the emphasis on learning extends to everyone within the Oakwood community. Our weekly optional training is designed around needs and we invest in a coaching philosophy and, therefore, we provide many opportunities for leadership development. Should you be successful, you will certainly be welcomed as part of our valued staff.
Oakwood is a large and expanding school of approximately 1600 students. We have split the population into ‘Years’ which enables the students to be cared for in smaller units. Each student also belongs to a House and we encourage a community ethos. The students are loyal and enjoy the friendly rivalry around House activities. Their personal development is central to the school ethos.
Our priority is to shape our school to fit the students’ needs and aspirations, rather than fit students to the school. For this reason we adopt the Pathways Approach where we help students ‘Learn to Learn’. Opportunities for elements of vocational pathways exist as well as accelerated progress and Gifted and Talented opportunities.
I do hope that, after reading this information and visiting our website, you will get a ‘feel’ for the school. If you require further details then please contact us at the school or email recruitment@oakwood.surrey.sch.uk
We are proud to be a happy, safe and progressive school. I very much hope you decide to apply and look forward to receiving your application.
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