Assistant Headteacher - Pastoral

This is a newly created role within the school's senior leadership team, and the postholder will work closely with the pastoral Deputy Headteacher, with heads of year and form tutors, as well as other staff to ensure the highest possible standards of student attendance and behaviour, whilst also working to ensure all groups of students, and particularly those with additional educational needs (SEND), disadvantaged students, and other identified groups, such as those who attend school from further afield, enjoy and benefit from full attendance at the school.

The postholder will work to secure a culture that celebrates and rewards positive attendance and behaviour and support the work of our heads of years, tutors and wider pastoral team in carrying out their work.

We are looking for a skilled practitioner to support, strengthen and augment our existing senior team and wider staff body. This post will suit someone looking for their first move into senior leadership, who is currently a head of year, or head of house by example; equally, this post will suit a colleague looking for a new challenge within a strong and established senior team.

Above all, we are seeking a colleague who will uphold and strengthen further our shared school values, grammar school ethos and inclusive and ambitious school culture.

The Crypt School is an exciting and vibrant environment in which to teach and to learn, and our commitment to developing staff has been recognised by an Investors in People Gold award. We benefit from a supportive culture and a diverse and enthusiastic pupil body. All staff contribute to the wider life of the School and we welcome applications from colleagues who want to make a real difference to our school and the lives of the pupils who attend.

The Crypt School is an equal opportunity employer, and we value having a workforce as diverse as the city and region we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community, and we particularly welcome applications from groups who are currently under-represented within our workforce such as from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and disabled candidates.

The aim of our policy is to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Our recruitment selection criteria and procedures are frequently reviewed to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities and that no applicant or employee is disadvantaged by provisions, criteria or practices which cannot be shown to be justified.