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Base pay range
Location: Options Trent Acres, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire, DE13 7HR
Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum dependent on experience
Hours: Monday - Friday
Contract: Permanent, Term Time only
UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.
As part of our continued growth in service, we are recruiting for a Headteacher for Options Trent Acres located in Kings Bromley, Staffordshire. This well-established school supports pupils with complex needs and seeks an outstanding leader to drive its continued development.
About the role
Are you an innovative Headteacher/Senior Leader committed to improving the lives of pupils and young people with a primary diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Continuum and additional complex needs? This is an excellent opportunity for an inspiring Headteacher to join our fantastic team.
As Headteacher, you will continue our vision and ethos of ‘Thinking and Learning Differently’ and promote a relentless focus on high quality, creative learning, delivering our pupil's educational needs, and maximising pupils’ achievement and ability to develop your strategic thinking in response to their complex needs.
You will exercise dynamic leadership of the school and ensure the full development of the vision for the service, its promotion, and continuous improvement. You will create and maintain outstanding outcomes in the education of our students.
You will continue to drive our shared vision and strategic plan through inspirational leadership and motivate pupils, staff, and everyone within our school community and beyond. Your leadership should express core educational values and moral purpose and include stakeholders’ values and beliefs. The strategic planning process is critical to sustaining school improvement and ensuring that the school moves forward for the benefit of its pupils.
You will collaborate with the school's senior leadership team and the Regional Director to provide an inclusive approach to outstanding educational and therapeutic provision which is well established in the school.
You will have overall responsibility for the strategic leadership of the school whilst maintaining ongoing communication with schools to ensure that the provision and standards are consistently high across the schools.
Key Responsibilities
* Relevant experience in the specialist area of the service, i.e. relevant experience working with young people/young adults with autistic spectrum disorders and/or challenging behaviour.
* Relevant experience as a Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher in a Complex Special Needs School.
* Experience with Ofsted procedures/inspections and working with School Improvement Partners.
* Manage budgets effectively and ensure cost efficiency and financial compliance.
* Relevant Teaching Qualification.
About the school
Options Trent Acres is an outstanding independent specialist school; providing 141 places for pupils age 5-19. The school operates across two sites in Staffordshire providing academic and vocational opportunities in both a rural, 12-acre site and a newly built college setting.
The school is purpose built, modern and welcoming with a range of specialist learning areas including an indoor and outdoor riding school and outdoor gymnasium. Pupils also have the opportunity to work with our horses, donkeys, goats, alpaca and chickens. Learning outside of the classroom is a fundamental part of life at Trent Acres. We have a dedicated staff team who are focused on the delivery of high quality, pupil centred, bespoke packages of care and education.
For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to pupils, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
Why join Options Autism?
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:
* Life Assurance
* Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
* “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:
* A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
* 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
* Cycle to Work Schemes
* Electric Car Purchase Scheme
* Critical illness cover
* Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
*You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 4DWW is subject to successful completion of probation and is not a contractual benefit.*
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