Leader - Maternity Cover

Responsibilities

• Be proactive in establishing behaviour for learning across the school.
• Meet with parents/carers to establish a strong sense of culture and the learning purpose within the School.
• Co‑ordinate home/school links over a range of issues e.g. attitudes to learning and individual progress.
• Work closely with Senior Leaders and the Senior Leadership team to monitor the individual progress of all students in the designated group and take or support appropriate intervention to facilitate progress in line with target grades.
• Monitor, record and evaluate the impact of various interventions for students within the designated group, ensuring use of, and feedback for, the most effective interventions by the Pastoral and Faculty Teams.
• Identify students in need of specialised mentoring, and provide mentoring sessions where appropriate or facilitate alternative mentoring opportunities.
• Access student voice via year group or focus groups, interviews and questionnaires analysing student feedback to promote the learning experience and inform best practice for Pastoral and Faculty teams.
• Proactively use the Go 4 Schools system to regularly monitor behaviour and learning of all students, analysing any sub‑group patterns and feeding back to Tutors, Mentors and the wider pastoral team, as appropriate.
• Support and review parents’ evenings.
• Establish and co‑ordinate proactive intervention strategies for both pastoral and learning progress by liaison with Pastoral Teams and Heads of Departments.
• Lead tutor meetings and briefings and, where necessary, pastoral meetings.
• Quality assure the effectiveness and delivery of the pastoral curriculum.
• Improve and monitor attendance of the year group in liaison with the attendance officer.
• Be involved in the creation and establishment of Pastoral Support Plans and support the SENCo in collating information for EHC plans and JCQ access assessments.
• Champion an ethos and culture of high standards, resilience and self‑belief within the student group through positive communication, assemblies and tutor time activities.
• Conduct walk‑about, lunchtime and after‑school duty, late duty and bus duty as appropriate.
• Liaise with external agencies.
• Safeguard vulnerable students whilst acting as Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Accept reasonable changes in responsibility or teaching commitment according to experience, expertise and the needs of the School.