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**Organisation**
- Schools

**Directorate**
- Secondary Schools

**Service Area**
- Heckmondwike Grammar School

**Hours**
- 37 hours per week. Term Time + 10 days. 8.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 4.00pm on a Friday

**Number of Jobs**
- 1

**Location(s)**
- Heckmondwike

**Position type**
- Temporary, Permanent

**Length of contract**
- Final start date and length of cover to be confirmed but around 8th July 2024 for 1 year

**Grade**
- SCP18 £29,269.00 pro rata (£26,327.47 actual salary) Pay Award pending

**Salary**
- SCP18 £29,269.00 pro rata (£26,327.47 actual salary) Pay Award pending

**Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of Heckmondwike Grammar School**

Are you an organised and approachable individual?

Then this will be the job for you.

This post provides a unique opportunity to work within a high-performing and growing 11 to 18 grammar school with a large sixth-form and exceptional students.

We are delighted to have been named **“Secondary School Of The Year”,** “Soaring 57 places in the UK rankings to 77” out of approximately 6000 secondary schools (state and independent) in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power Guide.

At Heckmondwike Grammar School, our motivation is for our students to enjoy their school days and to become thoughtful, articulate, confident and responsible members of society. In order to achieve this, we rely on our staff to work closely with students, parents and teachers to provide a supportive community, keeping the well-being of our students at the forefront of everything we do.

The Role:
With a commitment to confidentiality, discretion, and a passion for supporting student success, the Pastoral Leader is an essential member of our Sixth Form team.

**Responsibilities**

Specific responsibilities are set out in a detailed job description.

**What will you bring to the role?**
- A highly organised, decisive, emotionally intelligent and enthusiastic professional who can work calmly, efficiently and effectively as part of a team and who works well under pressure and on their own initiative;
- Someone who has understanding of and empathy for the individual needs of students.
- A dynamic, motivated individual, with a ‘can-do’ attitude who is able to enthuse, inspire, support and challenge students and staff.
- A clear and effective communicator, with excellent listening skills, who is able to converse with students, staff and other professionals with precision, professionalism and confidence.

Why Should You Apply?

Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with the young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go.

Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.

We also offer a competitive salary and membership to a Local Government pension scheme.

**Protection of children**:
Disclosure of criminal background of those with access to children.

**Safeguarding Statement**:Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Closing date**

04 June 2024, 9:00 AM

**Important Information**:
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