Key Stage 3 Lead
Location: Haringey, UK
Salary: SCP 29 - 32 £41,442 - £44,331; £37,592 - £40,213 pro rata
Education Phase: Secondary
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 13th August 2025
Interview Date: 15th August 2025
About us
Our client is a charitable Trust of entrepreneurial community schools and colleges that help young people to reach their potential. They support their schools' Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at early years, primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of their students.
They believe that education should be stimulating, enriching and enjoyable.
That strong schools achieve this through creating the right environment for high-quality learning having strong, broad and relevant curricula; by having clear boundaries, building excellent relationships and working to close gaps for every learner.
They believe that a great education empowers people, both children and adults, because it offers them genuine choices for their future decisions. And helps them to appreciate the value of learning throughout their lives.
Job Description
Overall Purpose of the Role:
To contribute to the development of a strong, effective school with an emphasis on promoting a culture of educational excellence, within a caring and secure environment enriched with the values of discipline, mutual care and respect which extends beyond the school into the wider community.
Key Stage Lead will take pastoral strategic leadership of all students within their Key Stage focusing on behaviour, attendance and safeguarding.This is a key leadership role within the Academy developing positive and productive links between home and school and ensuring that effective early intervention and action is taken to ensure robust pastoral support is in place.
The Key Stage Lead is responsible for the line management and effective deployment of the behaviour leads for each year group and liaison with the attendance and safeguarding teams.In addition, the Lead will ensure that praise, rewards and celebration are an integral part of everyday school life.
Key Duties:
- Ensure and deliver effective pastoral support so that individual students and groups of students are supported to actively participate in learning and reach their full potential.
- Ensure robust Safeguarding systems are in place to report concerns and maintain regular links with the safeguarding team, disseminating information as appropriate and ensuring interventions are in place for vulnerable students
- Support the raising of standards in the school by leading and delivering pastoral support to a Key stage of students; and within that year group by providing support to individual students and their families.
- Be responsible for managing and addressing the needs of students who need help to overcome barriers to learning in order to achieve their full potential.
- Be responsible for supporting the improvement of student punctuality, attendance and behaviour and assist the school's pastoral programme in reducing disruption and raising student achievement and progress.
- Contribute to effective transition from other schools ensuring the student well-being on entry.
- Lead and co-ordinate the work of the tutors keeping SLT and the Principal informed of important information on individual students or year team issues/developments.
- Plan, run and keep minutes of SSP meetings - agenda items to include discussion of each high-risk students and agreeing further action (if needed); sharing performance information relating to attendance, punctuality, behaviour, and information about key pastoral events affecting that year group team.
- Monitor and quality assure the Tutorial Programme for each class in Key Stage of responsibility at least half termly and provide appropriate feedback- ensure the programme is delivered to a high standard and Tutors run their tutor group sessions effectively.
- Support the professional development of Tutors and others relating to your team and the delivery of the Tutorial Programme including, where needed, working alongside form teachers to model effective delivery.
Benefits
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