What skills and experience we're looking for
Head of Year
Fixed Term – maternity cover
MPR/UPR/TLR
Required for April 25
A successful, popular and highly regarded school with over 1000 students, The Hurst School combines outstanding facilities with a real commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a friendly and supportive school and Pastoral department.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, passionate and dedicated Head of Year to our Pastoral Team. You will be a dynamic and motivational individual, with the ambition to consistently challenge yourself to be a successful leader of students, no matter what should arise. You will provide highly effective pastoral care to your year group and promote and secure a culture of high expectations for all students. You will also co-ordinate all aspects of learning, behaviour and the development of students within the year group to ensure that all students are supported to become confident, successful and responsible individuals in school, the wider community and beyond. As a school, we will offer you strong CPD, with career development opportunities at the forefront of our minds.
What the school offers its staff
The benefits package includes an on-site gym and an on-site nursery. We are a rural school within easy driving distance of Reading, Newbury and Basingstoke.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.