Head of Year

3 weeks ago

Southampton, United Kingdom Weston Secondary School Full time

**Job Description: Head of Year**

**Responsible to **Senior Leader

**Line Management **N/A

**Type Teaching**/ Non-teaching/ Support

**TLR **2.7 £5,021

**Pay scale **MPS/UPS

**Liaising with **Headteacher/SLT/Attendance team/Student Welfare team

**Start date **September 2023 if not sooner

**Part time/ Full Time **Full time

**Key Purpose**
- Fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher, as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay

and Conditions document (STPCD)
- Meet the expectations set out in the Teachers’ Standards
- Take specific responsibility and accountability for the day-to-day management and

organisation of your year group
- Assist in the smooth running of the school at all times

**The four most important things we are looking for**
- Have evidence of raising student attainment
- Have previous pastoral experience
- Resilience

**Duties and responsibilities: Strategic direction (Head of Year)**
- Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the school’s

policies, practices and procedures, so as to support the school’s values and vision
- Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school
- To monitor the academic progress of the year group in order to secure and sustain

effective learning, with particular reference to the proportion of students and groups of

students making 3 and 4 levels of progress
- To use assessment data such as CATs, SATs, KS2+KS3, to inform an analysis of individual

student progress and collective progress across each tutor group and the year group

as a whole.
- To have an overview of the range of barriers to learning that impacting on student

progress, with reference to behaviour for learning, in and out of the classroom
- To use all of the above to identify underachievement with a view to establishing and

coordinating improvement strategies in conjunction with teachers and Heads of

Department, with particular reference to the proportion of students and groups of

students making 3 and 4 levels of progress 5.
- To monitor the effectiveness of these interventions and report to SLT termly on the

progress being made by students in the year group 6.
- To liaise with key staff, including the SENCO, regarding all groups of students’

achievement in the year group, with particular reference to the proportion of students

and groups of students making 3 and 4 levels of progress

**Leadership and Management**
- To act as a role model for tutors by demonstrating high quality pastoral care and

academic monitoring of students, continuous professional development and

professional presence
- To lead and manage a team of tutors and maintain regular formal and informal contact

with tutors.
- To ensure all tutors understand, and are actively implementing the key aspects of the

school’s policies including those for behaviour, attendance, uniform and safeguarding.
- To make a significant contribution to the induction of tutors referring any individual

training needs to the member of SLT with responsibility for staff INSET.
- To initiate and respond to communications with parents ensuring that they are kept fully

informed and involved in the progress of their children.
- To contribute to the organisation of any parent information evenings by encouraging

and monitoring parent attendance to such events.
- To monitor student attendance and punctuality on a weekly basis and to take all the

appropriate steps to ensure that attendance and punctuality of students in the year

group are at the highest levels
- To oversee students on report and make contact with parents when necessary.

**Duties and responsibilities: Teaching**

As a classroom teacher, you are expected to:

- plan, prepare and present lessons in accordance with WSS Guidelines;
- teach, according to the educational needs of all students assigned to deploying

strategies within the WSS Graduated Response to Teaching, Learning and

Expectations (GRTLE);
- mark and record assessments completed by students, ensuring all underperforming

work is challenged in line with school guidance;
- set and mark homework for KS4 on a regular basis in accordance with school policy;
- assess, record and report on the development, progress and attainment of students

by using appropriate baseline data;
- assess how well learning objectives have been achieved and use this assessment to

improve aspects of teaching.

**Responsibilities of all school staff**

At an appropriate level, according to the job role, grade and training received, all

employees in the school are expected to:

- support the attitudes, beliefs and values alongside the vision of WSS;
- contribute as a member of the WSS Team to aspects of school life which enhance

our community;
- attend and contribute to staff meetings and INSET days as required;
- take responsibility for safeguarding and children’s welfare and ensure the immediate

reporting to the DSL or a Deputy DSL of any safeguarding matters which p

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