Seva Education provides a quality educational experience for students with special educational needs and disabilities. With the addition of our site in Twickenham we now have opportunities for leaders to join our experienced leadership team.
Main purpose
The assistant headteacher will support the headteacher and deputy headteacher in:
- 0.75 FTE teaching commitment initially whilst the school grows and students numbers increase
- Communicating the school's vision 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
- Monitoring progress towards meeting the school's aims and objectives.
The assistant headteacher will also have a timetabled teaching commitment.They may also be required to undertake any of the duties delegated by the headteacher.
Qualities
The assistant headteacher will:
Uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct
Build positive and respectful relationships across the school communities
Duties & responsibilities
School culture and behaviour
Under the direction of the headteacher or deputy headteacher, the assistant headteacher will:
- Create a culture where students experience a positive and enriching school life
- Uphold educational standards in order to prepare students from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life
- Ensure a culture of staff professionalism
- Encourage high standards of behaviour from students, built on rules and routines that are understood by staff and students & clearly demonstrated by all adults in school
- Use consistent and fair approaches to managing behaviour, including the use of Team Teach de-escalation techniques, in line with the school's behaviour policy
- Encourage high levels of student attendance and help to uphold a school culture of safety.
Teaching, curriculum and assessment
Under the direction of the headteacher or deputy headteacher, the assistant headteacher will:
- Establish and sustain high-quality teaching across subjects and phases
- Ensure the teaching of a broad, structured and coherent curriculum
- Establish curriculum leadership, including subject leaders with relevant expertise and access to professional networks and communities
- Use valid, reliable and proportionate approaches to assessing students' knowledge and understanding of the curriculum
- Ensure the use of evidence-informed approaches to reading so all students are taught to read
- Lead one of the major areas of teaching and learning within the school
- Promote a culture and practices that enables all pupils to access the curriculum
- Make sure the school works effectively with parents, carers and professionals to identify any further additional needs and provide support & adaptation
- Make sure the school fulfils statutory duties regarding the SEND CODE OF PRACTICE..
Organisational management and school improvement
Under the direction of the headteacher or deputy headteacher, the assistant headteacher will:
- Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies so the school can operate effectively and efficiently
- Ensure staff and students' safety and welfare through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of duty of care
- Prepare reports for, attend and keep accurate records of safeguarding, child protection, child in need and looked after child meetings, representing the school professionally
- Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk including managing risk assessments and health and safety
- Play a part in managing the safe transition from buses and taxis at the start and end of each day
- Ensure effective use of budgets and resources
- Identify problems and barriers to school effectiveness
Staff management and professional development
Under the direction of the headteacher or deputy headteacher, the assistant headteacher will:
- Performance-manage middle leaders, teachers and teaching assistants, including carrying out appraisals and holding staff to account for their performance
- Take part in, provide feedback and plan improvements based on learning walks, observations, book and data scrutiny
- Manage staff with due attention to workload
Governance, accountability and working in partnership
Under the direction of the headteacher or deputy headteacher, the assistant headteacher will:
- Work with the governing board as appropriate
- Make sure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties
Other areas of responsibility
The applicant will be expected to take on and lead a major area of either the curriculum or the pastoral side of the school. The area of leadership will be based on the skills and experience of the applicant.Please note that this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It's not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the assistant headteacher will carry out. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role.
Safeguarding Children and Adults
Seva Care Group ensures all employees have a responsibility to support the School in its duties by:
- Attending mandatory training on Safeguarding children.
- Being familiar with individual and the School's requirements under relevant legislation.
- Adhering to all relevant national and local policies, procedures, practice guidance and professional codes.
- Reporting any concerns to the appropriate authority.
- Whilst every effort has been taken to explain the duties and responsibilities of the post, certain individual tasks may not be identified.
Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake any task of a similar level that is not specified in the job description.
Notes:This job description may be amended at any time in consultation with the postholder.