Assistant Head of Year

The Stockwood Park Academy are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed Assistant Head of Year to join our team. This is a pastoral role where you will assist the pastoral team and wider academy to ensure significant academic progress and excellent behaviour of students across a year group.  To succeed in this role, you will be able to inspire and motivate students to excel in their education and have high expectations of what students can achieve. You will be part of the pastoral team, led by an Assistant Principal and includes Senior Heads of Year, Heads of Year and Assistant Heads of Year.

The Stockwood Park Academy are proud of the unrivalled education experience offered.  You will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership, an encouraging and enthusiastic staff body, and enterprising students.  Our academy has state of the art facilities, fit for all your teaching needs. 

‘We recognise talent, recruit for attitude and train you for the skills’

If you want to grow and develop in a fast paced, dynamic, and successful Academy, come and join us at The Stockwood Park Academy!

Key Duties

• Track student progress, behaviour, attendance and punctuality data and support follow up and intervention.
• Mentor identified students in and where appropriate across Year Teams
• Support staff in the management of student behaviour
• Communicate and meet with staff, parents and carers and outside agencies.
• Support the Head of Year in the consistency of student rewards and awards.
• Contribute and actively engage in duties across the academy to encourage a calm and purposeful learning environment

The successful candidate will have

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Energy, commitment, and attention to detail
• A good sense of humour and the ability to diffuse potentially difficult situations with ease.
• An understanding of how an effective pastoral system underpins high academic achievement.
• A ‘can do’ attitude, hard worker.
• Resilience and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Passionate about pastoral support.
• Can run intervention to support students needing additional support.
• Local community knowledge would be beneficial.
• Those who can run clubs/extra curriculum welcome.

JOB SPECIFICS

Start date: September 2026

Job Role: Permanent, Full-time, Term-time + 5 INSET days plus 2 weeks, 41 weeks per year.

Salary: AS 15-20  FTE £30,334- £32,906 dependent on actual experience, actual pro-rata salary £27,673 - £30,020, plus additional £2,500 per annum Fixed term, reviewed annually (please see details below)

Permanent working hours - 37 hours per week, Monday to Thurs 8:00am to 16:00pm and Friday 8:00am to 3:30pm, 37 hours per week

Additional Fixed term hours, reviewed annually (£2,500 per annum) - additional time for end of day Behaviour Operations  - Monday to Thurs 16:00pm to 16:30pm and Friday 3:30pm to 16:30pm

Working day including the Fixed term Behaviour Operations - Monday to Friday 8:00am to 16:30pm

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding and welfare of children is paramount and all our staff share this view. Applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding and child protection checks including with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.