Education ​/ Teaching Head, School Counseling & Student Support

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 and 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 is a role where relationships matter. You will know your students, celebrate their successes, challenge them when standards fall and develop strong, productive relationships with parents and carers.

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

We are looking for a highly visible and ambitious leader who believes that excellent attendance, high standards, a strong sense of belonging and positive relationships with families are the foundations of student success. This role would suit an existing pastoral leader looking for a new challenge or an aspiring leader ready to take the next step in their career. What matters most to us is your ability to build relationships, establish high expectations and be relentless in helping young people succeed.

Due to our curriculum requirements, applicants should be able to teach Science or any discipline within Technology, including Design and Technology, Food Technology, Engineering, Graphics or Art Textiles. Our core purpose is to Enthuse | Aspire | Achieve. We are a rapidly developing school with high expectations, a strong sense of community and a clear ambition for every student to succeed.

Our values of Respect, Kindness, Honesty, Ambition and Pride underpin everything we do.

• 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…