Year Leader - Maternity Cover
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 5GY |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 8db19f56-4421-4b81-9728-3ad269d081aa |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Be proactive in establishing behaviour for learning across the school.
• Meet with parents/carers to establish a strong sense of culture and the learning purpose within the School.
• Co-ordinate home/school links over a range of issues e.g. attitudes to learning and individual progress.
• Work closely with Senior Leaders and the Senior Leadership team to monitor the individual progress of all students in the designated group and take or support appropriate intervention to facilitate progress in line with target grades.
• Monitor, record and evaluate the impact of various interventions for students within the designated group, ensuring use of, and feedback for, the most effective interventions by the Pastoral and Faculty Teams.
• Identify students in need of specialised mentoring, and provide mentoring sessions where appropriate or facilitate alternative mentoring opportunities.
• Access student voice via year group or, focus groups, interviews and questionnaires analysing student feedback to promote the learning experience and inform best practice for Pastoral and Faculty teams.
• Proactively use the Go 4 Schools system to regularly monitor behaviour and learning of all students, analysing any sub-group patterns and feeding back to Tutors, Mentors and the wider pastoral team, as appropriate.
• Support and review parents’ evenings.
• Establish and co-ordinate proactive intervention strategies for both pastoral and learning progress by liaison with Pastoral Teams and Heads of Departments.
• Lead tutor meetings and briefings and where necessary, pastoral meetings.
• Quality assure the effectiveness and delivery of the pastoral curriculum.
• Improve and monitor attendance of the year group in liaison with the attendance officer.
• Be involved in the creation and establishment of Pastoral Support Plans and support the SENCo in collating information for EHC plans and JCQ access assessments.
• Champion an ethos and culture of high standards, resilience and self-belief within the student group through positive communication, assemblies and tutor time activities.
• Conduct walkabout, lunchtime and afterschool duty, late duty and bus duty as appropriate.
• Liaise with external agencies.
• Safeguard vulnerable students whilst acting as the Assistant Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Use of CPOMS or other safeguarding platforms to record and action any student concerns
• Accept reasonable changes in responsibility or teaching commitment according to experience, expertise and the needs of the School.
• Support the Academy with Events that take place throughout the year as and when needed.
What the school offers its staff
• Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
• A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
• *Access to Teachers’ Pensions / Generous pension scheme
• Access to discounted travel schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Comprehensive training and support
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Free flu vaccine
• Access to e-learning and development
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.
• Be proactive in establishing behaviour for learning across the school.
• Meet with parents/carers to establish a strong sense of culture and the learning purpose within the School.
• Co-ordinate home/school links over a range of issues e.g. attitudes to learning and individual progress.
• Work closely with Senior Leaders and the Senior Leadership team to monitor the individual progress of all students in the designated group and take or support appropriate intervention to facilitate progress in line with target grades.
• Monitor, record and evaluate the impact of various interventions for students within the designated group, ensuring use of, and feedback for, the most effective interventions by the Pastoral and Faculty Teams.
• Identify students in need of specialised mentoring, and provide mentoring sessions where appropriate or facilitate alternative mentoring opportunities.
• Access student voice via year group or, focus groups, interviews and questionnaires analysing student feedback to promote the learning experience and inform best practice for Pastoral and Faculty teams.
• Proactively use the Go 4 Schools system to regularly monitor behaviour and learning of all students, analysing any sub-group patterns and feeding back to Tutors, Mentors and the wider pastoral team, as appropriate.
• Support and review parents’ evenings.
• Establish and co-ordinate proactive intervention strategies for both pastoral and learning progress by liaison with Pastoral Teams and Heads of Departments.
• Lead tutor meetings and briefings and where necessary, pastoral meetings.
• Quality assure the effectiveness and delivery of the pastoral curriculum.
• Improve and monitor attendance of the year group in liaison with the attendance officer.
• Be involved in the creation and establishment of Pastoral Support Plans and support the SENCo in collating information for EHC plans and JCQ access assessments.
• Champion an ethos and culture of high standards, resilience and self-belief within the student group through positive communication, assemblies and tutor time activities.
• Conduct walkabout, lunchtime and afterschool duty, late duty and bus duty as appropriate.
• Liaise with external agencies.
• Safeguard vulnerable students whilst acting as the Assistant Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Use of CPOMS or other safeguarding platforms to record and action any student concerns
• Accept reasonable changes in responsibility or teaching commitment according to experience, expertise and the needs of the School.
• Support the Academy with Events that take place throughout the year as and when needed.
What the school offers its staff
• Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
• A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
• *Access to Teachers’ Pensions / Generous pension scheme
• Access to discounted travel schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Comprehensive training and support
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Free flu vaccine
• Access to e-learning and development
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.