Head of Year - Southampton, United Kingdom - Weston Secondary School

Weston Secondary School
Weston Secondary School
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Southampton, United Kingdom

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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 daytoday 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 - To monitor the effectiveness of these interventions and report to SLT termly on the

progress being made by students in the year group - 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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