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Deputy Head Teacher Hartlebury Up to £59,522.00 Core Purpose of the Deputy Headteacher To provide professional leadership and management of the School that will promote a secure foundation from which to achieve high standards in all areas of the School's work. To achieve success, the Deputy Headteacher will work with the Headteacher and Regional Lead and other key stakeholders to: deliver the school's vision, provide leadership and direction; demonstrate outstanding leadership; promote excellence, equality and high expectations of all students; effectively and efficiently manage resources to achieve the school's aims; drive school performance and deliver continuous improvement; carry out day-to-day management, organisation and administration; create a safe, compelling and progressive learning environment that leads to students who are ready, confident and enthusiastic about their education and school. Duties and Responsibilities Play an active part of the Senior Leadership Team and lead the school alongside the other members of this team, with enthusiasm, ambition and confidence. Represent the SLT to all stakeholders. Demonstrate personal enthusiasm for, and commitment to, embracing the love of learning and education. Champion children, particularly those who are disadvantaged to ensure they are equipped, in the correct uniform and ready to learn. Ensure that the behaviour culture across the school reflects the school's high standards and ambition for our students, promoting high standards of behaviour and positive attitudes towards learning. Lead the school's reward and recognition systems and processes. Promote exceptional attitudes and behaviours regarding safeguarding, welfare and safety. Embody, promote and embed the values of the Rights Respecting School's philosophy. Develop, implement and evaluate policies, procedures and practices that drive improvement and raise standards. Provide the professional challenge to staff to support continued reflection and striving to improve practice. Work collaboratively with staff within the SLT, across the school, and the wider Cambian group Access, analyse and interpret information, and use it effectively. Initiate and support evidence-based research and debate about effective behaviour management practice. Acknowledge excellence and challenge development areas for the school. Build a strong, cohesive staff team that are able to consistently implement the school's behaviour policies. Promote the school's ethos where continual professional development is an integral part of our practice. Challenge, influence and motivate others to attain high goals. Attend meetings of the Leadership Team when required. Attend meetings and report to the governors as required. Contribute effectively to the school development plan and self-evaluation. Play a leading role in the successful implementation of change strategies. Chair meetings of staff and to lead working parties as the need arises. Participate fully in staff development and staff performance management, and lead where necessary Play a central part in the school's quality assurance and monitoring processes. Provide statistical information about the school to the Headteacher for internal purposes or, when required, by external agencies. Liaise with external agencies as required. Participate in and lead assemblies as and when required. Help promote, support and sustain excellent relationships with the local community. Line manage designated staff as required. Fulfil a teaching and mentoring requirement as required.
Call/email Alisdair to get an application form to complete and also a full job description. Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week Salary: L1-L5 Closing Date: 16thMay with interviews on 20th May This NEW school is part of a UK wide SEN Schools group of over 20 SEN/SEMH schools - they are the 6th largest provider of SEN education and care in the UK. They have opened a brand new Primary and Secondary ASC/SEMH school last year in Wolverhampton with a proposed capacity of 80 students aged between 5-19. They are currently looking for a Secondary Assistant Headteacher to join them. The building has been redeveloped into an amazing learning environment with facilities to allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve. The Headteacher is looking for fun, passionate, dedicated, and driven staff to help support her vision for the pupils and the school environment. She is committed to offering a truly unique workplace environment, embedded with a supportive culture, positive ethos, strong teamwork, and personal drive, with further career opportunities as both the school and this schools' group, as a company, grows. Your Experience and Qualifications: Qualified Teacher status Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN Experience of working with young people with ASD Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedure Ability to create and maintain nurturing relationships with young people Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners important A flexible approach and a high level creativity Experience of managing staff and teams The assistant headteacher will support the headteacher and deputy headteacher in: Communicating the school's vision compellingly and supporting the headteacher's strategic leadership The day-to-day management of the school Formulating the aims and objectives of the school Establishing policies for achieving these aims and objectives Managing staff and resources to that end Monitoring progress towards meeting the school's aims and objectives The assistant headteacher will also have a timetabled teaching commitment of up to 50% complying with the Teachers' Standards and modelling best practice for others. The assistant headteacher will be responsible for the secondary phase of the school. Encompassing curriculum, progress, attainment and qualifications with a focus on leading personal development. Key duties: Leadership and Management- A member of the senior leadership team (SLT) required to take a shared responsibility for providing vision, strategic direction, and leadership to the school. Teaching and Learning- Lead teaching and learning to support the achievement of students, taking specific responsibility for secondary education, qualifications and personal development. Behaviour and Attendance- Lead these key areas within the school in order to support the achievement of students, taking specific responsibility for whole school monitoring and interventions that generate measurable improvements. Safeguarding- to support SLT with the safety of the students, school and staff as per school policies. Community- Promote and model excellent relationships with parents and carers. Benefits: Training and Development This schools group strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people they support. They offer a wide range of programmes and opportunities to all employees to improve your skills and further your career. Save money on your bills!! With the cost of living rising they have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. Competitive Pay and Reward Every year they compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. They also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance. UK Health Cash Plan This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you. Employee Assistance Programme Your health and wellbeing is very important to this Group and they have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. Refer a friend for £1,000 They'll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (terms apply) Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search. Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position. Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.