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Head of Year

Head of Year

Saltash Community School

Cornwall

  • £28,770 - £31,364 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
Grade H
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
1st September 2024
Apply by:
15 July 2024

Job overview

Two permanent Head of Years are required for September 2024.

If you live our Core Values of Tenacity, Empathy, Aspiration and Motivation and can inspire them in others then this may be the job for you! We are looking for two strong pastoral leaders to join our team. Our year groups have approximately 220 students from a wide and diverse catchment. The successful candidate will take over one of two cohorts and lead them through to the end of Year 11.

Hours: 08:00 through to 16:00 with half an hour for lunch - term time only plus five training days

We are part of South East Cornwall Multi Academy Regional Trust (SMART), incorporating other schools, both primary and secondary, from South East Cornwall.  If you would like to become part of our school, we would like to hear from you.

If you would like to visit the school or have more information on this position, please contact the School's Operation Manager, Mrs Gaynor Bersey, via gbersey@saltashcloud.net. Please be aware that we can only consider applications submitted directly by candidates using the form available on the vacancies page on the school website. Please visit the school website vacancies page for details: https://www.smart-trust.net/information/vacancies.

Applications close at 09:00 on Monday 15th July 2024 with interviews planned for the same week. 

All appointments will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, and applicants will be expected to demonstrate their entitlement to work in the UK. If you have worked outside of the UK, please provide a relevant police check for each country you have worked.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All offers of employment will be subject to the successful candidate undertaking an enhanced criminal record check (paid for by the school).

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About Saltash Community School

OVERVIEW

The school is a mixed 11 to 18 comprehensive school established in its present form in 1968. The school converted to Academy Status in April 2011, and became part of a Multi Academy Trust (SMART) with one of its partner primaries, Landulph, in January 2014. The SMART family expanded in 2016 to include Liskeard and Looe Secondaries along with Dobwalls and Trewidland Primaries. Situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, it occupies a 13 acre site overlooking Plymouth Sound and the Tamar, Tavy and Lynher rivers.

We serve our partner primary schools in the town, the rural primary schools at Landulph and St Germans as well as an increasing number of students from Plymouth and further afield in Cornwall.

We are proud of our livestock area containing pigs, rabbits, ducks, chickens and goats along with several allotments which enhance provision in many curriculum areas.

Our extensive sports fields, including a superb floodlit all-weather pitch, are amongst the best in the county, enabling us to offer a wide range of different sports to our students and local community.

VALUES AND ETHOS

Our Trust is committed to developing SMART Learners, SMART Leaders and SMART Communities. This means that everyone’s voice is heard and we commit to support every person in our Trust on their own personal learning journey.

At Saltash Community School, our mission statement is ‘Achieving More Together’: we are committed to working together with all our community to enable everyone to overcome their barriers and to thrive as active citizens; developing the skills, knowledge and cultural capital they need to achieve their aspirations: students and staff alike.

Our TEAM Core Values of Tenacity, Empathy, Aspiration and Motivation underpin all we do. If you share these values and are committed to inclusive comprehensive education with wellbeing at its heart, then we would love to hear from you.

WORKING FOR US

If you're searching for your next teaching post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed teachers - send us your CV now via our School Talent Pool and say what sort of role you're looking for.

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Applications closed