Director of Sixth Form Maternity Cover

Summary

St Helen’s is looking to appoint a Director of Sixth Form to cover a one-year maternity leave, offering an exciting opportunity to lead and develop our Sixth Form provision. Teaching Allowance is 14 periods per fortnight.

Detail

Lead the Sixth Form team in ensuring that an effective programme of academic challenge and pastoral care and support is implemented, embedded, reviewed, and updated regularly.

Maintain clear oversight of the participation levels of all students in the Sixth Form in Co-curricular events and provide a termly report on engagement.

Ensure the Sixth Form team attend and support the students in all key events including Co-Curricular events.

Develop positive working relationships with and between all stakeholders within the Sixth Form (pupils, parents, staff, alumnae).

Line manage the Deputy Heads of Sixth Form, Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) Lead, and Sixth Form Administrator.

Contribute to the leadership of the School and the School’s operational plans as part of the SLT

Contribute to the general management and day-to-day running of the School

Support whole-school events, including after-school, evening, and weekend commitments.

Support the Head in ensuring legal, statutory and ISI compliance across the School and work with SLT to prepare for inspections.

Assist in complaints, grievance and disciplinary procedures (pupils and parents) as required.

Undertake after-hours SLT on-call (until 6.15pm) and school trip duties according to the rota.

Play a vital role in the promotion of the through-school ethos.

Documents

• Director of Sixth Mat Cover JD 2026 PDF Document