6th Form Academic Leader

An opportunity for an educational practitioner to challenge and motivate Sixth Form students in achieving their academic aspirations. Our motto at Riverside is Excellence for All and this position would offer you the opportunity to join a sixth form team who put this ethos into practice each day. Progression to teacher training may be available to the right candidate.

Riverside School is a mixed 11-18 free school that opened in September 2013. We are fully subscribed in Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and currently have 1200 students on roll, including our new sixth form. We will eventually grow to a full capacity of 2000 students.

Our success is a result of an absolute emphasis on learning, the brilliant parental support that we receive and our close-knit team of enthusiastic and incredibly talented staff. There is a real sense of passion and dynamism that students and staff bring to all that they do, making Riverside School a superb place to both learn and to work.

We serve our local community with the very highest standard of education to ensure ‘Excellence for All’. Riverside works in partnership with the Local Authority (London Borough of Barking and Dagenham) to meet the needs of a rapidly growing school population in the Thames View and Riverside areas in the southern part of the borough, on the north bank of the River Thames.

If you are dedicated to promoting the highest levels of success in young adults; we hope that you will decide to pursue your application and that you will consider a future with us at Riverside. 

Purpose of the Role

To work efficiently and effectively under the direct guidance and instruction of the Director of Sixth Form.

Academic Leaders are required to be proactive, use their initiative and be resourceful in order to meet the social, emotional and academic needs of each individual student. You will work on an individual basis with students: ensuring they are organised, using effect revision strategies to aid understanding and progress, are meeting deadlines and are seeking advice from subject teachers.

Personal Qualities

• Committed and enthusiastic.
• Excellent punctuality 
• Loyalty and discretion.
• Confident, positive and flexible attitude.

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to work independently and use your initiative and be proactive.
• Ability to work as a member of a collaborative team.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Ability to control a study room
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office and Google suite.

Qualification 

• Undergraduate level degree 
• GCSE grade equivalent of Level 5 or above qualification in English and maths.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure strategies to support sixth form pupils are being implemented in revision and study plans.
• Planning and delivering small groups or 1:1 intervention.
• Attending relevant meetings in school and with external agencies.
• Attending relevant INSET days and staff meetings.
• Establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and being aware of and responding to individual needs appropriately.
• Promoting the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils.
• Being aware of pupil problems/progress/achievements and reporting to the director of sixth form.
• Undertaking pupil record-keeping as requested.
• Providing feedback to the class teacher where necessary after the lesson in order to ensure the individual needs pupils are being met in the class to enable excellent pupil progress.
• Supporting students with basic IT skills, as directed. 
• Being aware of and complying with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns through the form and passed to the DSL.
• Being aware of and supporting differences and ensuring all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
• Contributing to the overall ethos/aims of the school.
• Accompanying teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required.

Responsibilities to the Headteacher

• To promote the aims, values and ethos of the school and uphold school rules.
• To read and adhere to the procedures set out in the Staff Handbook.
• To carry out a share of supervisory duties in accordance with normal school schedules.
• To participate in the appropriate meetings with colleagues.
• To participate in performance management arrangements.
• To carry out other duties as may be reasonably required by the Headteacher.
• To support the ethos of the school and enforce the school’s behavioural and uniform policies.

The above duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out such other appropriate duties as may be required by the Headteacher within the grading level of the post and the competence of the post holder.

The school is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and as such all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS (CRB) check. Appointments are also subject to satisfactory references/medical clearance