Education ​/ Teaching Head, School Counselor

What skills and experience we're looking for

Queen Elizabeth’s Academy have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed non‑teaching Head of Year to join our pastoral team. This pivotal role combines pastoral leadership with academic support, ensuring students are fully engaged, supported, and able to achieve their potential.

This is a permanent position, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only.

• Leading the pastoral care and academic progress of a year group
• Supporting attendance, punctuality, behaviour, and wellbeing
• Celebrating student success and fostering a positive year group identity
• Building strong relationships with students, families, and external agencies
• Promoting community cohesion through enrichment, healthy living, and student leadership initiatives
• Managing and developing a year team, ensuring high standards in registration, tutorials, and pastoral programmes
• Overseeing interventions for students at risk of underachievement, absence, or behavioural concerns

• Proven experience in a pastoral role within a school setting
• Strong ability to lead, motivate and develop a team
• Excellent communication skills to engage with students, families, staff, and external agencies
• Organisational skills to manage data, interventions, and year group activities effectively
• A track record of improving attendance, punctuality, behaviour, and student outcomes
• Commitment to safeguarding, student wellbeing, and inclusive practice
• Flexibility to provide cover, supervision, and support across the school when required
• A positive role model with resilience, empathy, and high expectations for young people.
• Local community knowledge

At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.

• Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 21.8%
• Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning
• Employee Assistance Programme
• GP helpline
• Health and wellbeing advice and support
• Eyecare vouchers
• Salary sacrifice schemes – electric car scheme, cycle to work, home and electronics
• Lifestyle savings - discounts and offers on gym memberships, holidays, days out, shopping, restaurants, etc
• Health cash plan (personal or family) – where you pay monthly and can claim money back on private treatments such as dental, optical and therapies (e.g. physiotherapy, osteopathy etc)
• Take a look at our rewards and benefits online

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.