Head of Year - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams

Description

This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team of staff at a new Free School in Stoke-on-Trent, working closely with the Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher SENDOCo and a brand new team of teaching and support staff.

• Oversee and be accountable for the management of daily routines, driving consistency across your team of form tutors.
• Ensuring all students meet the highest of expectations.
• Model the warm strict approach to behaviour across school and support colleagues in this approach.
• Ensure consistency across the year group line up and practise routines to embed normative routines across the academy.
• Proactively patrol classrooms and support the highest standards of behaviour by being a visible presence out and about the school, moving in and out of corridors and classrooms.
• You will also be responsible for yard and lunch duties.
• Track and monitor attendance for your year group, attendance phone calls made leading on parent meetings and home visits when required.
• Organise corrections and be proactive in developing students' resilience and respect so they avoid detentions.
• Celebrate, in a supportive atmosphere of competition, achievement points and attendance in order to create a positive celebratory culture across the year group.
• Address the year group as a whole through community ambition assemblies as and when needed.
• Develop effective and positive partnerships with parents and carers (liaise with external partners if necessary) and deal professionally with sensitive issues with students and families.
• Have the ability to recommend further actions and lead on some interventions as directed by SLT.
• Work as a team when on call and be able to deal with callouts from across the school.
• Support the SLT responsible for Personal Development with transition throughout school. This would be linked to your allocated year group and could include primary school for transition sessions.
• Support family evenings for the year group.
• Support exam processes patrolling during assessment times and supporting pupil attendance and behaviour.
• Be First Aid trained and provide support within the first aid team.
• Be able to deliver small group interventions in a specialist area(s) as part of the wider support package offered by the pastoral team.
• To contribute to the development of effective links with external agencies and develop opportunities for multiagency working

• To undertake appropriate duties designated by the Headteacher which are commensurate with the job title and grade. Conduct your duties in a professional and confidential manner that promotes a positive impression of the support services and ethos of the school in all circumstances.
• Positively participate in continuous professional development and training to develop own professional practice, undertaking safeguarding and other forms of training as required to maintain skills and knowledge base. Review and develop your own professional practice, undertaking training as required.
• Contribute, support and positively promote the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.
• The postholder must carry out their duties with due regard for all school policies but in particular safeguarding, equal opportunities, data protection, confidentiality, child protection and health & safety policies.
• Be familiar with and ensure compliance of all current legislative requirements i.e. data protection, copyright and computer misuse and advise staff as appropriate.
• Develop good working relations with other colleagues and promote a positive impression of the support services in all circumstances, identifying areas for improvement.
• To work flexibly in the interests of the school and undertake such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the post and level of responsibility.
• Be a designated First Aider and maintain a valid First Aid Certificate.

• Undergo training to develop and maintain the knowledge and skills, through at least annual update, required to carry out the role.
• Support the Vice Principal in the coordination and delivery of Safeguarding training including safer working practices
• The above list is not exhaustive or exclusive. The role requires the post holder to be professional, cooperative and flexible in line with business needs of the Academy and the wider Trust. The post holder is required to undertake additional such duties as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading for the post. The duties outlined in this Job Description may be modified by the Headteacher to reflect or anticipate changes in the job, commensurate with the scope and grading of the post.

• Genuine passion for and a belief in the potential of every pupil
• The postholder will be expected to have a good knowledge of national poli