Head of Year (Pastoral Support Lead)

Actual Annual Salary: £33,951 - £36,222 - based on hours and weeks worked. Full Time Equivalent Salary: £39,649 - £42,301 (CLF Grade F) based on full-time hours, all year round.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week - Full Time, Term Time Only plus 5 insets

Potential Start Date: 3 Sept 2026 – Pending completion of pre-employment checks

Join our Academy and play a pivotal role in fostering a culture of wellbeing, high expectations, and achievement for all students.

Head of Year will lead pastoral support across a key group. You will create a sense of identity and community and provide a high level of care to all students by promoting wellbeing and attainment and providing support and challenge for pupils and their families. You will work proactively and preventatively to ensure students are supported to achieve and progress in their education. The successful candidate will promote the highest standards of engagement, behaviour, conduct, and attitudes in all students in the group, also monitoring and supporting academic and social development across the group, undertaking interventions where appropriate to support the most vulnerable learners.

• Qualification with behaviour and/or SEND element (e.g. NPSLBA) or other relevant qualification in behavioural support work and/or equivalent experience.
• Advanced knowledge of safeguarding within an educational setting.
• Knowledge of legislation, guidance, and relevant research which inform safeguarding practices, including low level concerns.
• Knowledge and understanding of current issues relevant to Inclusion and Raising Achievement.
• Knowledge of the academy’s legal responsibilities in monitoring attendance.
• Child Protection and/or Advanced Safeguarding trained, or willingness to undertake training.
• An appropriate First Aid qualification or willingness to undertake training.
• Full driving licence and access to vehicle with business insurance.

• Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Generous annual leave.
• A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
• Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
• A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
• Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. We particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the students we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion. We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.

Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.