Job Start Date 1 May 2025 Hours Per Week 42.5 hours per week Working Pattern Term time only Contact Email Vacancieskeshacademy.com Actual start date is flexible depending upon the successful candidates availability and required notice periods VISION AND PURPOSE To encourage, guide and support pupils wellbeing and academic achievement at school, ensuring that students achieve the best possible outcomes. To liaise with families and other stakeholders to facilitate this. King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy is a mixed 11-18 academy serving a vibrant and diverse community. Judged to be Good by Ofsted (February 2023), we are proud of our committed staff and aspirational pupils. This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious leader to join our pastoral and inclusion team as a Head of Year. As a non-teaching role, the post holder will be responsible for monitoring the wellbeing, behaviour and progress of all pupils in a year group. The successful candidate will be: highly motivated and enthusiastic have high expectations of students and what they can achieve have clear pastoral experience Have a strong understanding of strategies which address barriers to learning a committed team player able to develop and drive new initiatives and innovate practice We can offer you: access to an Employee Assistance Programme a modern, well-resourced environment supportive, enthusiastic and committed colleagues access to a range of CPD and training tailored to your needs This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. How to apply: A full job description and an application pack can be found on our website This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.