[Hiring] Head of Year @Kingsbury School

Role Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and highly motivated teacher to join Kingsbury School as a Head of Year from January 2027.

As Head of Year, you will provide leadership for a year group, ensuring that every student is known, supported and challenged to achieve their very best. You will be a highly visible presence throughout the school and will lead the development of a positive year-group culture characterised by:

• Excellent attendance and punctuality
• High standards of behaviour and uniform
• Positive attitudes to learning
• A genuine sense of belonging

Working alongside our pastoral, attendance, safeguarding, SEND and inclusion teams, you will identify barriers to success and ensure that students receive the right challenge, intervention and support.

You will also lead and support your team of tutors, quality assure the tutor programme and ensure that tutor time makes a meaningful contribution to attendance, personal development, school culture and student achievement.

This role could be for you if you:

• Are an excellent classroom teacher of Science or Technology
• Are an aspiring or existing leader ready for your next professional challenge
• Have high expectations and the confidence to challenge poor standards while maintaining positive relationships
• Believe passionately in the importance of excellent attendance
• Can inspire, motivate and build strong relationships with young people
• Understand that excellent pastoral leadership and high academic expectations go hand in hand
• Can use information and data intelligently to identify students who need additional challenge or support
• Communicate confidently and professionally with parents and carers
• Are visible, approachable, resilient and solution-focused
• Are ambitious for every student, including disadvantaged students and those with SEND

Qualifications

• Ability to teach Science or any discipline within Technology, including Design and Technology, Food Technology, Engineering, Graphics or Art Textiles

Requirements

• Driving improvements in attendance and punctuality, using data and targeted intervention to make a measurable difference
• Establishing consistently high expectations for behaviour, uniform, equipment and attitudes to learning
• Creating a positive year-group identity in which students feel that they belong and are valued
• Leading a strong culture of recognition and reward, celebrating attendance, achievement, effort and the demonstration of our school values
• Leading, supporting and developing a team of tutors
• Building strong relationships with parents and carers
• Monitoring academic progress and working with curriculum leaders to identify and address underachievement
• Working collaboratively with safeguarding, SEND and inclusion colleagues to remove barriers to learning

Benefits

• A positive and supportive staff culture
• Clear whole-school expectations for behaviour, attendance and standards
• Established pastoral and attendance teams working alongside Heads of Year
• A strong culture of rewards, recognition and celebration
• A comprehensive programme of professional development and professional growth
• Genuine opportunities for leadership development and future career progression
• A school-wide commitment to high-quality, inclusive teaching
• An iPad for every member of teaching staff, with mirroring to classroom screens
• Strong administrative support
• Free on-site parking and a range of Trust employee benefits, including cycle to work, employee discounts and access to Westfield Health