Post: Head of Year
Non-Contact: 10/25 lessons taught plus one 35min assembly per week
Responsible to: Assistant Headteacher Pastoral/Behaviour
Salary: MPS/UPS TLR 1a
The post-holder will be expected to undertake duties in-line with the professional teacher standards for qualified teachers.
The Year Leader will lead a year team of form tutors and associate staff taking overall responsibility for the organisation, welfare and discipline of the year group. The Year Leader will have responsibility for the identification of students who require guidance and support, using their year team.
The Year Leader is expected to embrace a sense of “ownership” of the year group as a whole and requires a candidate who is robust, rigorous and who believes it is important to pay attention to detail. The position is both demanding and rewarding and requires a teacher with the ability to multi-task, prioritise demands and go the extra mile. Liaising with parents and external agencies is an important aspect of the job, as is focusing on the academic achievement of all learners in your year group.
Each Year Leader will take on at least one whole school responsibility from the list below:
* Reward
* Student Leadership
* Anti-Bullying
* Primary Liaisons and transition
* Lead the House Champions and the extra-curricular offer for Aldridge School
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Attendance
* To ensure outstanding attendance is promoted across the year group by rigorous scrutiny of registers, working alongside the Attendance Officer, associate year staff, form tutors and any outside agencies. The minimum target for Aldridge School is 96% attendance.
* With the Attendance Officer, identify the correct level of intervention for those students who fall below the given values in the Attendance Policy and ensuring the required actions are taken.
Form Tutors
* To ensure the team of form tutors meet regularly and understand and implement the policies and protocols of Aldridge School.
* To lead, assist and monitor form tutors.
* To support and take assemblies.
Students and achievement
* To address students in a suitable style and tone for occasions such as congratulating them for achievements, counselling them on their actions, social times, transitions and weekly assemblies.
* The Year Leader must monitor students’ academic progress and help devise strategies for any particular groups who may need further intervention, such as PP, LAC, SEN, HPA, MPA, LPA, boys or girls.
* To support assessment and monitoring procedures, specifically Parent Consultation Evenings for their year group or other calendared events.
* To meet with the SENDCo regularly and maintain a sound knowledge of the students in the year group on the SEN register.
* To meet as a year team with the associate Pastoral Year Lead to review the support for students in the year group, evaluate the impact and plan further interventions as necessary.
* To closely monitor the points of students on Class Charts, to identify any students who need further pastoral support, such as a fixed term behaviour report, attendance report, punctuality report, parental meetings, initiate offers of Early Help.
Record keeping
* To ensure student pastoral records are kept in good order, such as SIMS for information on serious misbehaviour and any communication with parents/carers, physical files for investigations and suspension/exclusion information, records of any pastoral support processes.
* To lead on any investigations into serious misbehaviour within the year group, using the guidance and ensuring all paperwork is complete before presented to the Assistant Headteacher for Behaviour/Pastoral for further consideration.
* To lead on any reintegration meetings following a suspension, ensuring key data is used in the meeting such as attendance, academic progress, behaviour summary and a plan for the successful reintegration into main school, such as time in IER, fixed term report, temporary timetable adjustments.
* To prepare the paperwork for any referrals to other relevant professional external agencies when necessary, such as change of school, Managed Moves, Clinical Team.
Parents
* To maintain flexible and appropriate communications with parents/carers. To listen to them when they are unhappy and deal with issues calmly and objectively. To arrange meetings with parents/carers to acquaint them with school policy or to discuss the welfare and general problems arising with any child. Meetings should take place before or after the school day has finished.
Whole school discipline
* Year Leaders are key people in the maintenance of good order and discipline in the school and must understand that their role extends beyond their year group. They must be active and involved around the school at all times, particularly at vulnerable times in the school day, such as the start of the day as students arrive, break and lunch times, transitions and the end of the day as students leave site. Therefore, the maintenance Year Leader of a high profile in corridors and playgrounds is essential.
* Year Leaders should also involve themselves in other important areas:
* Detentions at the end of the day.
* Break and lunch time duties, deploying the staff to supervise the areas of highest need and ensuring full coverage of the inside and outside areas.
Key Performance Indicators
The key performance indicators, or KPIs, are based on the Aldridge Learning Habits. You will show how you are working with your team to improve the numbers across the following KPIs:
* Attendance, target of 96%
* Punctuality to school, target of less than 3 lates per term
* Punctuality to lessons, target of less than 5 lates per term
* Correct uniform, target of 98% minimum
* Correct equipment, target of 98% minimum
The Mercian Trust is committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and young adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment. As this post involves working in regulated activity unsupervised with children all post-holders are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks including an online search check, Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Closing Date for Applications – 9am on Tuesday 29th April 2025
Please note we will not accept CVs for this post.