Post:                         Associate Head of Year    

Responsible to:         Assistant Headteacher (Pastoral)

37 Hours per week

39 weeks per year (Term Time plus 5 additional training days)

Salary Scale: Grade 5 Point 9-17 (£21,269-£24,920 pro rata per annum)

Actual Salary: £18,214-£21,340 per annum

Purpose

To facilitate the pastoral and academic progress of students across an identified year group.  To work collaboratively with a teaching Head of Year to ensure that students in your year group are Ready to Learn, develop Resilience, are Responsible and are Respectful.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• To implement the Attendance and Punctuality Policy and associated protocols to help the school work towards the annual attendance targets. To meet regularly with the Head of Year and the Attendance Officer to present data analysis, interventions and impacts.  To support the Head of Year in the production of bi-weekly updates to be presented to SLT link and AHT Pastoral. In conjunction with the Head of Year, ensure that positive attendance and punctuality have the highest expectations and profile in your year group via (amongst other things) assemblies and displays. To make and record first day absence and late text messages to parents / carers. To ensure timely and accurate communication with parents / carers as to attendance and punctuality concerns (see Attendance and Punctuality Policy and Protocols). To support the Head of Year and the Attendance Officer in the selection of those students within the year group in need of attendance mentoring.  To ensure that those identified students are mentored effectively with interventions and impacts clearly recorded and reported. To organise and supervise (with the Head of Year) any Year based sanction for poor attendance and/or punctuality.

Personal Development – Rewards and Consequences

• To implement the Behaviour and Rewards Policy and associated protocols to help the school work towards its stated annual targets. To support all staff in the enforcement of the Behaviour and Rewards Policy.  To ensure that any Behaviours requiring year team intervention are recorded in a timely and accurate way. To ensure timely and accurate communication with parents / carers as to behaviour and concerns (see Behaviour and Rewards Policy and Protocols). When necessary to liaise with external agencies that support positive behaviour To organise and supervise (with the Head of Year) any Year based sanction for poor behaviour

Personal Development – Safeguarding and Protected Characteristics

• To implement the Safeguarding Policy and associated protocols to help the school work towards its stated aims. To implement the Anti-Bullying Policy and associated protocols to help the school work towards its stated annual targets. To ensure all bullying incidents are correctly recorded in a timely fashion and that follow up checks (x2) are carried out as specified in Anti-Bullying Policy.

Supporting Children with Medical Needs

• To implement the Supporting Children with Medical Needs Policy and associated protocols to help the school work towards its stated aims. To ensure the accuracy of year medical records and advise the designated First Aid Lead of any changes, additions or omissions. To collect and record emergency auto adrenalin injector and inhaler permissions from parents / carers. Every half term to conduct random checks on students that should be carrying their own emergency auto adrenalin injections and/or inhalers.  Checks to be recorded and followed up with recorded communication to parents/carers. To ensure that all children who should have medical care plans in place do so.  To work with the First Aid Lead to create school generated Care Plans when no official plan exists if necessary. To offer timely support and referrals to other internal and external professionals to ensure the emotional, physical and mental wellbeing of students within the year group.  To maintain accurate records of any such interventions or referrals

Administrative

• To maintain accurate records via the school information management system. To update year notice boards regularly. To supervise students during immunisations applicable to your year group. To respond in a timely fashion to communications from parents/carers, external agencies and students and to keep records of these communications as required. To communicate with parents/carers, external agencies and other stakeholders as to the progress and barriers to learning of students within the year group.  To ensure that these communications are recorded

Standards and Quality Assurance

• Support the aims and ethos of the school Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality and attendance Attend pastoral and staff briefings and required CPD sessions Undertake professional duties that may be reasonably assigned by the Head Teacher particularly at break and lunch time to support with duties. Be proactive in matters relating to Health and Safety Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people

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The duties and responsibilities in this job description are note exhaustive.  The post-holder may be required to undertake other duties from time to time within the general scope of the post.  Any such duties should not substantially change the general character of the post.  Duties and responsibilities outside of the general scope of this grade of post will be with the consent of the post-holder.