Pastoral Administrator/Deputy Head of Year (Sixth Form)

Job Description

Required: September 2026

Monday to Thursday 08.00 - 16.00, Friday 08.00 - 15.30

Scale 6 point 14 (Range 14-18) - Actual salary £25,949.83

37 hours per week - 39 weeks per year (term-time plus one week)

We are seeking an organised and proactive individual with strong administrative experience to support the Head of Sixth Form.

The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date correspondence and administrative records in line with Sixth Form requirements. They will play a key role in providing an efficient, responsive, and high-quality clerical and pastoral support service across both year groups.

Excellent IT skills are essential, along with the ability to communicate confidently and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including students, staff, and parents.

Experience of working within a school environment is desirable but not essential.

Information about the School

St Martin's School is a large co-educational comprehensive school located in Hutton, Brentwood. The school benefits from a pleasant semi-rural environment with agricultural land to the rear. The school, which also includes a large sixth form block, is situated on an open, attractive 30 acre site. Parking is available on-site and there are good transport links by both rail and bus. Hutton is five miles from the M25 and 19 miles from London, which is easily reached by road or train (25 minutes to Liverpool Street Station).

This is a large, but friendly school in which all staff are helped to develop their talents. This is supported by an extensive and wide ranging in-house continual professional development programme (CPD). We have high quality mentoring and induction programmes for staff with excellent opportunities for training and professional development.

2025 – 74.9% of students achieved grades 9-4 in GCSE English Literature and 74.8% in GCSE English Language and 78.1% of students achieved grades 9-4 in Mathematics 2024 – 77.5% of students achieved 9 - 4 in GCSE English Literature and 79.5% in GCSE English Language and 79.9% of students achieved 9 - 4 in Mathematics - Over Subscribed - 1184 applications for 292 year 7 places in 2023 - Ofsted 2024 - Good with outstanding leadership

About Discovery Educational Trust:

Discovery Educational Trust, formed in 2014, is a successful and established multi-academy trust based in South Essex, comprising just under 4000 pupils and 500 staff, across 5 schools.

Our schools are:

Chase High School (Westcliff-on-Sea)
St. Martin's School (Brentwood)
Hogarth Primary School (Brentwood)
Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School (Brentwood)
Larchwood Primary School (Brentwood)

We aim for each of our schools to become the school of choice within the community, offering a broad and exciting range of extracurricular activities to enhance the opportunities within their formal curriculum.

Our vision is that strong and effective leadership places our children and young people at the heart of everything we do. We value relationships, which are open and honest, underpinned by kindness, trustworthiness and compassion.

We offer ongoing training and professional development for all staff in a supportive and collaborative environment.

We offer the following benefits for employees:

Pension scheme - also automatically includes Life Assurance
Generous Referral Bonus for employees who refer quality candidates to join Discovery Educational Trust
Two-week October half term (term time staff)
Employee savings and discounts
Employee Assistance Programme – free confidential wellbeing support for employees and dependants
Mental Health First Aiders – we have qualified MHFA England trainers within the Trust and continue to add to our pool of trained MHFAs
Bike2Work scheme
Ongoing training and professional development in a supportive and collaborative environment
Gifted Service Leave for long service
Health Cash plan to support with every day healthcare costs – e.g. dental, optical, physiotherapy. Includes Virtual GP service

As an equal opportunities employer, Discovery Educational Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age; disability; gender re-assignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race (which includes ethnic origin, nationality and ethnic or national origins); religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Discovery Educational Trust.

Discovery Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding our pupils against radicalisation and extremism and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted.  This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.