Year Leader
Job description
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Teaching Personnel are proud to be supporting a successful and inclusive primary school in Slough with the appointment of a Year Leader.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced classroom practitioner looking to take the next step in their career or an existing middle leader seeking a new challenge within a supportive and forward-thinking school.
The successful candidate will combine outstanding classroom practice with the ability to inspire and support colleagues, helping to drive high standards across their year group.
ContractPermanent, Full Time
SalaryMPS / UPS + TLR (where applicable)
The RoleAs Year Leader, you will play a key role in supporting the academic achievement, wellbeing and personal development of pupils while providing leadership and guidance to colleagues within your year group.
Responsibilities will include:
- Leading and supporting a team of teachers and support staff
- Driving high standards of teaching and learning across the year group
- Monitoring pupil progress and supporting interventions where necessary
- Contributing to curriculum development and assessment practices
- Supporting behaviour, attendance and pastoral provision
- Working closely with senior leaders to implement school improvement priorities
- Building strong relationships with pupils, parents and staff
- Holds Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Has a proven track record of strong classroom practice
- Demonstrates leadership potential or previous leadership experience
- Has high expectations and a commitment to raising standards
- Is organised, resilient and solution-focused
- Possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Is committed to inclusion and continuous improvement
- Opportunities for leadership development and progression
- High-quality CPD and coaching
- Supportive and collaborative colleagues
- An ambitious Senior Leadership Team
- Enthusiastic pupils who are eager to succeed
- Access to Multi-Academy Trust networks and resources
- Employee wellbeing initiatives and EAP support
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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Application advice
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⭐ Place your QTS qualification and any TLR or middle leadership experience prominently in your Personal Statement, as the advert explicitly lists these as key requirements.
📊 Quantify your classroom impact: e.g. "Raised Year 4 reading attainment by 18% over two terms through targeted intervention groups of 6 pupils."
🎯 Highlight any experience leading a year group, phase, or subject area — the advert seeks someone who can "drive high standards across a year group", so name the specific year group and team size you led.
🤝 Include a dedicated bullet on safeguarding and DBS compliance, referencing 'Keeping Children Safe in Education', as Teaching Personnel explicitly screens for this on all applicants.
🌐 Reference any Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) experience or cross-school CPD networks, as the school advertises MAT membership as a benefit and will value candidates already familiar with that structure.
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- •Led year group teaching team of 4 staff, implementing a structured feedback cycle that improved lesson observation ratings from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good' for 3 teachers within one academic year.
- •Designed and delivered a reading intervention programme for 18 Year 3 pupils, achieving a 22% increase in standardised reading scores over two terms against school baseline data.
- •Coordinated pastoral and attendance strategy across a 90-pupil year group, reducing persistent absence from 14% to 8% through weekly parent communication protocols and early-intervention referrals.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Teaching Personnel's Year Leader vacancy at your Slough primary school aligns precisely with the direction I want my career to take. With a strong track record of classroom practice underpinned by QTS, and experience monitoring pupil progress and designing targeted interventions, I am ready to take on the curriculum leadership and pastoral responsibilities this role demands.
My background in primary education has equipped me with the skills to lead and support a team of teachers and support staff, drive consistent standards of teaching and learning across a year group, and work closely with senior leaders on school improvement priorities. I have contributed to assessment practices that raised attainment across mixed-ability cohorts and built strong relationships with parents to support pupil wellbeing.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How do you use pupil progress data to identify underperforming groups and design targeted interventions within a year group?
- ›Describe your approach to curriculum planning and how you ensure assessment practices are consistent across a year group team.
- ›What strategies have you used to monitor and improve attendance and behaviour at a year-group level?
- ›How have you contributed to or led a school improvement priority, and what measurable outcomes did you achieve?
- ›How do you support and quality-assure the teaching practice of colleagues within your team, including less experienced teachers?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to lead a team of teachers through a significant change. How did you manage resistance and maintain standards?
- ›Describe a situation where a pupil's wellbeing or pastoral need required you to work closely with parents and senior leaders. What was the outcome?
- ›Give an example of when you identified a gap in pupil attainment and implemented an intervention. What did you do and what were the results?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to balance your own classroom responsibilities with wider leadership duties. How did you prioritise?
- ›Describe a moment when you had to have a difficult conversation with a colleague about their teaching practice. How did you approach it?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you had to lead a team of teachers through a significant change. How did you manage resistance and maintain standards?
Give an example of when you identified a gap in pupil attainment and implemented an intervention. What did you do and what were the results?