Year Performance Leader
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG16 2NJ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 96746383-173a-49f4-9252-ac8430623d49 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a Year Performance Leader from January 2026 (September 2025, if available). Included in the information pack is a full job description and person specification for the role. A typical school year group numbers 240 with a team of 8 tutors. Each Year group also has a non-teaching Student Support Assistant attached to the team to support the Year Performance Leader.
Year Performance Leaders have offices based in a purpose-built Student Support centre where they work alongside their Student Support Assistants. Working alongside the other Year Performance Leaders ensures a consistent approach to pastoral care and the opportunity to share ideas and advice with each other.
The Year Performance Leader Team are overseen by two experienced Senior Leaders; Kaylee Eatherington (Assistant Head Teacher for Behaviour) and Danny Knapczyk (Deputy Head Teacher Pastoral and DSL). If you would like to find out more about the role, then please contact Danny or Kaylee at the school.
If you have a dedication to pastoral care and developing the whole child, then we want to hear from you. As part of East Midlands Education Trust there will also be the opportunity for continued professional development to prepare you for future stages of your career. EMET employees also benefit from access to a comprehensive physical and mental wellbeing package.
What the school offers its staff
The Kimberley School is an exciting, oversubscribed and vibrant school with a very successful, high-achieving, sixth form. The school enjoys superb facilities and as part of the East Midlands Education Trust, has a very bright future. We aim to ensure that students are able to achieve outstanding academic exam results and that they have access to a vast range of exciting opportunities outside of the classroom that help prepare them for a successful adult life.
Further details about the role
On the application form, please focus on a detailed 'supporting statement' taking into account the person specification and indicating why you would be the best person for us to recruit to this position.
If you would like further information about the school or to arrange a visit, please telephone Wendy Bellamy, Leadership Support Team Leader in the school office on 01623 792327 or email, by email -hr@kimberleyschool.co.uk
The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post, will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken during the recruitment process and this may include online searches.
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
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.
We are seeking to appoint a Year Performance Leader from January 2026 (September 2025, if available). Included in the information pack is a full job description and person specification for the role. A typical school year group numbers 240 with a team of 8 tutors. Each Year group also has a non-teaching Student Support Assistant attached to the team to support the Year Performance Leader.
Year Performance Leaders have offices based in a purpose-built Student Support centre where they work alongside their Student Support Assistants. Working alongside the other Year Performance Leaders ensures a consistent approach to pastoral care and the opportunity to share ideas and advice with each other.
The Year Performance Leader Team are overseen by two experienced Senior Leaders; Kaylee Eatherington (Assistant Head Teacher for Behaviour) and Danny Knapczyk (Deputy Head Teacher Pastoral and DSL). If you would like to find out more about the role, then please contact Danny or Kaylee at the school.
If you have a dedication to pastoral care and developing the whole child, then we want to hear from you. As part of East Midlands Education Trust there will also be the opportunity for continued professional development to prepare you for future stages of your career. EMET employees also benefit from access to a comprehensive physical and mental wellbeing package.
What the school offers its staff
The Kimberley School is an exciting, oversubscribed and vibrant school with a very successful, high-achieving, sixth form. The school enjoys superb facilities and as part of the East Midlands Education Trust, has a very bright future. We aim to ensure that students are able to achieve outstanding academic exam results and that they have access to a vast range of exciting opportunities outside of the classroom that help prepare them for a successful adult life.
Further details about the role
On the application form, please focus on a detailed 'supporting statement' taking into account the person specification and indicating why you would be the best person for us to recruit to this position.
If you would like further information about the school or to arrange a visit, please telephone Wendy Bellamy, Leadership Support Team Leader in the school office on 01623 792327 or email, by email -hr@kimberleyschool.co.uk
The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post, will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken during the recruitment process and this may include online searches.
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
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.