Deputy Head of Year (Student Services)

Discovery Inc; Hutton; Sur place; GBP 21 000 - 29 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Bike2Work scheme

Health Cash plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Résumé du poste

Discovery Educational Trust is seeking a diligent and organised administrator to join our Student Services Team at St Martin's School in Hutton. You will assist with a wide range of needs for students across year groups and support with behaviour, learning and achievement.

You will relate to both children and adults, work well independently and as part of a team, and bring excellent administrative and IT skills. Safeguarding and pre-employment checks apply.

Qualifications

• Ability to relate to both children and adults and ideally have experience of an education setting.
• Able to work individually and as part of a team with excellent administrative and IT skills.

Responsabilités

• Assist Student Services Team to ensure high standards of behaviour, learning and achievement across year groups.
• Support with general administrative tasks and student welfare as required.

Connaissances

Administrative skills

IT skills

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Outils

Microsoft Word

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Description du poste

The successful candidate will assist our established Student Services Team to ensure a high standard of behaviour, learning and achievement with students. We are seeking an enthusiastic, hard-working, organised person who will assist with dealing with a wide range of needs for our students across all year groups.

Discovery Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding our pupils against radicalisation and extremism and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. It is an offence to apply for a role if barred from regulated activity. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. Please note that online checks will also be carried out. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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You will need to have the ability to relate to both children and adults and ideally have experience of an education setting. You will need to be able to work both individually and as part of a team, possess excellent administrative and IT skills.

St Martin's School is a large co-educational comprehensive school located in Hutton, Brentwood. The school benefits from a pleasant semi-rural environment with agricultural land to the rear. The school, which also includes a large sixth form block, is situated on an open, attractive 30 acre site. Parking is available on-site and there are good transport links by both rail and bus. Hutton is five miles from the M25 and 19 miles from London, which is easily reached by road or train (25 minutes to Liverpool Street Station). This is a large, but friendly school in which all staff are helped to develop their talents. This is supported by an extensive and wide ranging in-house continual professional development programme (CPD). We have high quality mentoring and induction programmes for staff with excellent opportunities for training and professional development.

2025 - 74.9% of students achieved grades 9-4 in GCSE English Literature and 74.8% in GCSE English Language and 78.1% of students achieved grades 9-4 in Mathematics
2024 - 77.5% of students achieved 9 - 4 in GCSE English Literature and 79.5% in GCSE English Language and 79.9% of students achieved 9 - 4 in Mathematics - Over Subscribed - 1184 applications for 292 year 7 places in 2023 - Ofsted 2024 - Good with outstanding leadership

About Discovery Educational Trust: Discovery Educational Trust, formed in 2014, is a successful and established multi-academy trust based in South Essex, comprising just under 4000 pupils and 500 staff, across 5 schools. Our schools are:

• Chase High School (Westcliff-on-Sea)
• St. Martin's School (Brentwood)
• Hogarth Primary School (Brentwood)
• Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School (Brentwood)
• Larchwood Primary School (Brentwood)

We aim for each of our schools to become the school of choice within the community, offering a broad and exciting range of extracurricular activities to enhance the opportunities within their formal curriculum. Our vision is that strong and effective leadership places our children and young people at the heart of everything we do. We value relationships, which are open and honest, underpinned by kindness, trustworthiness and compassion. We offer ongoing training and professional development for all staff in a supportive and collaborative environment.

We offer the following benefits for employees:

• Pension scheme - also automatically includes Life Assurance
• Generous Referral Bonus for employees who refer quality candidates to join Discovery Educational Trust
• Two-week October half term (term time staff)
• Employee savings and discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme - free confidential wellbeing support for employees and dependants
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have qualified MHFA England trainers within the Trust and continue to add to our pool of trained MHFAs
• Bike2Work scheme
• Ongoing training and professional development in a supportive and collaborative environment
• Gifted Service Leave for long service
• Health Cash plan to support with every day healthcare costs - e.g. dental, optical, physiotherapy. Includes Virtual GP service