What skills and experience we're looking for
The role of the Head of Year is to lead the year group to excellent academic outcomes and exemplary behaviour while securing the effective care of the social, emotional and learning needs of all individual students within the year group. The overriding role is to remove barriers to learning and to promote the ethos of aspirational and supportive academy where everyone succeeds; to provide strong leadership and management and ensure high quality student intervention which results in high student standards and achievement. This role will lead either Year 8 or Year 10 depending on the candidate’s skills and experience.
We would be particularly interested in hearing from potential candidates who can teach, Maths, Boys’ PE, Geography, Science or Health and Social Care. This is desirable but not essential.
What the school offers its staff
What you can expect from us:
• Eligibility to join excellent pension scheme.
• Option to make additional voluntary contributions to pension for local government pension scheme members which can help boost retirement benefits.
• Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities.
• Trust wide charity events designed to encourage our people to participate in meaningful activities.
• Access to wellbeing provision which offers information and advice on a range of workplace and personal issues.
• Flexible working opportunities.
• Enhanced special leave provision, including additional time off as part of our ‘Personal Day’ entitlement which supports employees to achieve a better work/life balance.
• Free car parking.
• On site catering facilities, all of which provide healthy and nutritious meals at a low cost.
• Gym membership.Many of our schools have on-site gyms, the use of which is available to employees at a discounted rate.
• Cycle to work scheme which enables employees to purchase a bike and accessories for their commute to work.
Free tea and coffee
Commitment to safeguarding
Holyrood Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding is our most important responsibility as a school. Happy and healthy students who are free from harm, are more likely to be successful throughout their education and thrive on their journey towards adulthood. As part of our due diligence process when shortlisting, we may carry out an online search of publicly available material to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore with the applicant at interview.