Head of Year

**Salary**:
Salary is worked out to pro rata reflecting weeks worked.

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
As soon as possible

10 January 2025

**Job overview**:
Up Holland High School is looking to recruit a Head of Year (non-teaching) to join a current team of 4. You will need to be enthusiastic, ambitious and committed. You will need to be child centred, possess excellent communication skills, be a strong team player and be Dedicated to Excellence.

The scope of work appropriate for this post is detailed below and full vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification.
- To ensure the whole school community has high expectations for students’ behaviour and conduct.
- Monitor and show demonstrable improvement in the behaviour and attendance of students who have particular needs.
- To eradicate or minimise incidents of concern, bullying, aggression, discrimination and derogatory language, if they occur they are dealt with quickly and effectively and are not allowed to spread.
- To support students in pastoral care and encourage a commitment to their learning, support them in studying effectively and therefore to do so, are resilient to setbacks and take pride in their achievements.
- Ensuring student have high attendance, come to school on time and are punctual to lessons. When this is not the case, the Pastoral team alongside other school systems in place takes appropriate, swift and effective action.
- To encourage positive relationships among students and staff and respectful culture; students are safe and they feel safe.
- identify students who may need early help or who are at risk of neglect, abuse, grooming or exploitation; help students reduce their risk of harm by securing the support they need, or referring them in a timely way to those who have the expertise to help.

**About**Up Holland High School**:
**Up Holland High School**
- Sandbrook Road, Orrell, Wigan
- Lancashire
- WN5 7AL
- United Kingdom

+44 1695 625191

**HEADTEACHER'S WELCOME**

Up Holland High School Is Dedicated To Excellence and prides itself on the excellent opportunities it offers to all students in order for them to develop and succeed.

This is achieved by offering a broad and balanced curriculum that is delivered by high quality practitioners. The school has an outstanding reputation for academic achievement and educational standards, which has been achieved by placing the individual child’s needs at the core of our ethos and our decision making.

We recognise that the development of the ‘whole child’ is an integral part of our work. We want the students to achieve both fantastic outcomes and to develop their interpersonal skills so that they are confidently prepared for life beyond school. At the heart of this ethos we promote our core values of leadership, organisation, resilience, initiative and communication. At Up Holland High School, we expect students to be self-motivated, ambitious, determined and hard working. We encourage them to make the most of their abilities and talents. Alongside this, we expect students to be kind, thoughtful and respectful to one another. We want them to participate in all aspects of school life, developing into responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to the wider community.

We strongly believe in the power of the ‘student voice’ and as such, afford the children the opportunity to positively impact change and improve our school by representing our student councils and junior leadership team. We expect our students to be responsible role models to each other and to the students in our partner primary schools, promoting a sense of community responsibility.

The pastoral care is a real strength of our school. We pride ourselves on knowing the students as individuals, which enables us to successfully work in partnership with parents and carers. This partnership is absolutely critical in ensuring students are happy, healthy and successful. Our extensive system of rewards encourages the pursuit of excellence and core values by celebrating progress, attainment and the overall contribution made to school life. High expectations of attendance, punctuality, uniform and behaviour underpin success in our school and lay the fundamental foundations for life beyond Up Holland.

**OFSTED**

Up Holland High School was most recently inspected on 24th May 2023 and continues to be ‘Good’.
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