Head of Year with a specialism in English

Head of Year with a specialism for English with a TLR2A required to start on Tuesday 22 April 2025. An earlier start considered for the right candidate. 

As Head of Year, you will support the Key Stage Progress Leads in delivering all aspects of the role including but not limited to:

·        Taking overall pastoral responsibility for students and accountability for their progress attainment and wellbeing group of students

·        Taking responsibility for the welfare of students; follow up incidents; maintain detailed records and student files; meetings with parents during or after school as required, sometimes with other senior staff members; arrange sanctions where appropriate; communicate with parents

·        Supporting a team of tutors, meeting with them on a regular basis in order to coordinate their work and to support the tutors by both counselling and disciplining students as and when appropriate

·        Supporting the development of all intervention activities within year groups

·        Supporting whole school public events, including but not restricted to, open days and parents’ evenings.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, talented, inspirational and driven professional to join our dedicated team. The successful candidate must be able to also demonstrate a passion for sharing their love of English and be committed to improving their own subject knowledge and teaching practice to achieve impressive progress for all students. You will also need to demonstrate that you have a track record of achieving rapid and sustained progress and attainment for all groups of students. 

King's Academy Ringmer is a rural comprehensive with an ethos of "Kindness, Ambition, Resilience ". We have a simple but bold ambition, to be the best school in Sussex. We consider this to be our ‘journey to excellence’. We are on a positive trajectory towards this goal, with outcomes a third of a grade above national average. We have a strong reputation for our inclusion, pastoral care and a rapidly improving trend of results in terms of student attainment and progress. The Academy is part of King's Group Academies whose mission is to equip all students with the confidence, knowledge, skills and values that will enable them to thrive in the modern world. We anticipate exciting developments ahead working together with students, parents/carers and the wider community to build upon our strengths and make this an outstanding school.

What can we offer you?

•          A chance to be at the forefront of educational development.

•          An Academy with a positive ethos, motivated students and focus upon learning

•          Excellent induction, support and staff development opportunities

•          A beautiful, rural environment situated approximately 12 miles from the coastal city of Brighton and Hove

For full details and an application form can be download directly from our website:  https://www.kgaringmer.uk/vacancies/teaching-staff-vacancies

or contact Amanda French on either 01273 815460 or

amanda.french@kingsacademies.uk quoting job reference P/488.  We offer a first class working environment with supportive colleagues and opportunities for career development.

King’s Academy Ringmer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts within our Multi Academy trust are exempt for the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all applicants will be required to declare spent and unspent convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as spent and complete an Enhanced Criminal Records Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Closing date for applications is Wednesday 4 December 2024 at 8.30am with the interview date TBC.

We advise applying promptly for this post as we reserve the right to close and interview early if sufficient suitable applications have been received.