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Head of Year
Thank you for your interest in becoming part of our Houlton School family. Houlton School occupies an iconic local landmark building set in 20 acres of countryside on the east boundary of Rugby (M1, Junction 18). Our Grade II listed buildings are home to state-of-of-the-art facilities, including specialist Performing and Visual Arts Studios, our own Radio Broadcast facilities, a brand new Sixth Form Centre and more. Also, we have the addition of a Sports England compliant Sports Centre and two purpose- built teaching blocks for Humanities and STEM, each well equipped with computer suites. Our Houlton School’s £39m campus provides a truly exceptional school experience for students aged between 11-18 years.
The Head of Year will be an integral member of our support staff team, working with us to formulate and realising our ambitious strategic vision for a world-class education; together, we will continue to use Houlton’s heritage to build a global hub for communication, the arts and world-class engineering.
To support the Vice Principal in establishing a positive learning culture which ensures high standards of achievement, behaviour and attendance.
- To provide pastoral care.
- To lead on a whole school area of responsibility (area to be determined by the strengths of the successful candidate).
- To ensure each child is making excellent progress.
- To support the embedding of the core values of Houlton School.
- To support pupils to engage with learning.
- To support the welfare of individual pupils.
- To provide academic support for all pupils.
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides pupils with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
Job Description
- To contribute to raising standards of pupil attainment.
- To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
- To collaborate with teaching staff and liaise with parents as appropriate.
- To be on call when needed to support children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
- To deal with daily pastoral/behaviour issues at an appropriate level.
- To oversee behaviour, attendance and welfare issues relating to your allocated year group.
- To help remove welfare barriers to learning, enabling students to make at least expected progress.
- Support SEND learners to make good progress.
- To deal with issues in a positive manner, communicating actions to staff and parents as appropriate.
- To ensure rewards are issued and collated for assigned year group/s.
- To take up duties related to on call and staffing of Refocus.
- To actively use SIMS, CPOMS and Edulink to ensure that incidents and actions are meticulously logged.
- To liaise with outside agencies and attend meetings as appropriate including oversight of Early Help cases.
- To attend meetings and reviews as necessary, contacting parents as required.
- To build relationships with parents and resolve issues, liaising with external agencies as directed.
- To use restorative practices to support relationships.
- To be alert to safeguarding issues, log and pass on concerns as appropriate, deal confidentially and sensitively with parents and students undergoing difficulties.
- To collate accounts and collation of information in response to incidents of challenging behaviour.
- To form positive relationships with children and their families.
- To provide a link between the school and external agencies.
- To supervise and monitor peer mentoring schemes.
- To maintain records in relation to consequences and rewards and use data accordingly.
- Develop links to ensure and enhance the understanding of the school amongst new and existing parents/carers.
- Issue and monitor pupil support cards.
- Supervise break/lunchtime detentions as required.
- To undertake training commensurate with the post.
- Respect confidentiality at all times.
- To understand and apply school policies in relation to health, safety welfare and Child Protection.
- Ensure that all duties and services provided are in accordance with School’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
- To enforce expectations with regard to uniform, attendance, punctuality and respectful behaviour
- To oversee and lead on an area of whole school responsibility.
- To lead assemblies.
Management Information
- To maintain appropriate records and to provide relevant accurate and up-to-date information for MIS, registers, etc.
- To complete the relevant documentation to assist in the tracking of pupils.
- To track pupil progress.
Marketing and Liaison
- To take part in marketing and liaison activities such as Open Evenings, Parents Evenings, Review days and liaison events with partner schools.
- To contribute to the development of effective subject links with external agencies.
- To promote a positive image of Houlton School through dealings with outside bodies.
Management of Resources
- To contribute to the process of the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
- To co-operate with other staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the school, team and the pupils.
Pupil Achievement
- To make use of assessment data at team level to set appropriate subject targets and to track and monitor the progress of pupils within your allocated year group.
- To implement the School Rewards, Feedback and Reporting policies, to monitor their implementation and to give feedback to pupils.
- To take responsibility for the behaviour of pupils within your allocated year group and to deal with any problems in keeping with the School Positive Behaviour Policy.
- To promote co-curriculum activities beyond the taught day which give pupils the opportunity to take responsibility and to extend their learning. Staff, Performance Management and Professional Development
- We are committed to ongoing CPD and offer a variety of formal and informal support to all staff no matter what their role.
Premises and Administration
- To ensure that the team’s learning environment is safe, well maintained and attractive and in keeping with the School Health and Safety policy, reporting any concerns directly to the Site Manager.
Other Specific Duties
- To play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its distinctive mission and ethos and to encourage staff and pupils to follow this example.
- To promote actively the school’s corporate policies.
- To continue personal development as agreed.
- To comply with the school’s Health and Safety Policy and undertake risk assessments as appropriate.
Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.
Post holders will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
Post holders are expected to be courteous to colleagues and provide a welcoming environment to visitors and telephone callers.
The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.
This job description is current at the date shown, but following consultation with you, may be changed by leadership to reflect or anticipate changes in the job which are commensurate with the salary and job title.
Safeguarding
To be aware that all staff are responsible for the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children.
This job description sets out the duties and responsibilities of the post at the time it was drawn up. Such duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the post.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £26,892.93-£29,213.62 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
