Year Manager - Student Pastoral Support

Role:             Year Manager

Location:        Swindon 

Salary:          £29,204 per annum (pending inflationary increase)

Contract term:  Permanent  

If you are passionate about students attaining highly, developing personally and learning to take responsibility for their behaviour, this is the role for you. If you are experienced in working with young people as part of a team, you do not want to miss the opportunity to work in one of the most improved and popular schools in Swindon.

Under the direction of the Assistant Principal – Student Support and working alongside the pastoral team, you will identify and meet the needs of scholars, contributing to more effective learning through improved behaviour, attendance and wellbeing.

This is a full-time role with working hours being 40 hours per week during term time, with a residual 182.5 hours to be worked in holiday periods or as extra hours as required. There is an expectation of flexibility to be able to respond to the needs of our scholars effectively.

About You 

You will need to be skilled at prioritising and managing a busy schedule, delivering a high-quality service to scholars, the school, and the Senior Leadership Team in a calm and patient manner. You will need to have experience of managing scholars’ behaviour and safeguarding young people. You will be an inspirational role model to all scholars, but particularly for those who may need additional support. You will need to work with identified groups of scholars, with barriers to learning, to improve their life chances, behaviour management and wellbeing.

There is a confidentiality component to this role and the post holder needs to hold the trust and confidence of both staff and scholars.

Experience gained within the education or welfare sector is essential, as you will need to lean on your experience to deliver the requirements of the role. Experience of working with students in a pastoral role is desirable, but not essential.

Understanding the benefit of early intervention, Multi Agency working, Safeguarding and Child Protection are essential and any formal training in CP is highly desirable. Experience of being a lead professional, writing Early Help records and attending TAC meetings would be desirable, but not essential.

The ideal candidate will have passed their GCSE English and Maths at grade C/5 or higher and will have studied to A level or Degree (although this is not essential). ICT skills including Word and Excel is essential, experience of using Arbor/CPOMS or similar systems would be an advantage.

This amazing role would suit you if you are passionate about supporting, nurturing and challenging young people, giving them every opportunity to reach their full potential and improve their post sixteen choices.

Why choose us

At Nova Hreod Academy, we pride ourselves on a team of staff who are supportive, friendly and dedicated to providing the very best teaching and learning for our students. Staff across the academy set a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement for students which, in turn, is reflected in the emphasis we place on continuing professional development (CPD) for our staff. 

We have made significant, sustained progress at GCSE and are proud to have been the most improved school in Swindon. 

Nova Hreod Academy has approximately 900 pupils in Years 7-11. The school is situated in purpose-built £25 million premises, benefiting from excellent, state-of-the-art facilities and situated within the beautiful county of Wiltshire, within commuting distance for Bristol, Bath and Oxford. 

After a visit from Ofsted in November 2022, the academy received a second ‘Good’ judgement in a row.

If you are looking for the next step in your career, and would

like to find out more, please email James Harding - Mbogo (Headteacher) on j.harding-mbogo@novahreodacademy.org.uk. He will arrange a visit or an informal call to talk about the role.

Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response.

Due to the high volume of applications received, the School is unable to provide individual feedback on why an application is unsuccessful. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

United Learning 

Nova Hreod Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. 

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.