What skills and experience we're looking for
Essentials:
Qualified Teacher Status, with a degree-level qualification or equivalent.
Proven Leadership Experience: At least three years of strong, successful leadership and management experience in a primary school.
Expert Knowledge of SEND Legislation: Sound understanding of relevant legislation, including the ‘SEND Code of Practice’.
Strategic Development: Ability to develop and implement strategic plans for SEND policy and provision.
Data Analysis Skills: Competence in evaluating and using data to plan and improve pupil performance.
High Ethical Standards: Commitment to promoting the school’s vision and ethos with integrity and professionalism.
Safeguarding: Strong commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills to engage with pupils, staff, parents, and external agencies.
Curriculum and Teaching Innovation: Secure excellent teaching through understanding of successful classroom practice and curriculum design.
Management of Resources: Ability to advise on and manage the school’s delegated budget and resources effectively for SEND provision.
Expert classroom practitioner:Evidence of expert classroom practice across a range of early childhood (ages 2-11.)
Desirables:
Wider Professional Knowledge: Sustained knowledge and understanding of local, national, and global education systems and continuous professional development (CPD).
Community Engagement: Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the wider community, including parents, carers, trustees, and other schools.
Inclusive Education Advocate: Demonstrated commitment to advancing equality and overcoming disadvantage among pupils.
Research-Led Practice: Engage with external and internal research to innovate and improve teaching practices.
Performance Management: Experience in managing staff performance, addressing underperformance, and valuing excellent practice.
Change Management: Evidence of implementing, managing, and evaluating change collaboratively.
Empowering Leadership: Demonstrated ability to inspire and empower all staff and pupils to excel.
What the school offers its staff
Essentials:
Qualified Teacher Status, with a degree-level qualification or equivalent.
Proven Leadership Experience: At least three years of strong, successful leadership and management experience in a primary school.
Expert Knowledge of SEND Legislation: Sound understanding of relevant legislation, including the ‘SEND Code of Practice’.
Strategic Development: Ability to develop and implement strategic plans for SEND policy and provision.
Data Analysis Skills: Competence in evaluating and using data to plan and improve pupil performance.
High Ethical Standards: Commitment to promoting the school’s vision and ethos with integrity and professionalism.
Safeguarding: Strong commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills to engage with pupils, staff, parents, and external agencies.
Curriculum and Teaching Innovation: Secure excellent teaching through understanding of successful classroom practice and curriculum design.
Management of Resources: Ability to advise on and manage the school’s delegated budget and resources effectively for SEND provision.
Desirables:
Wider Professional Knowledge: Sustained knowledge and understanding of local, national, and global education systems and continuous professional development (CPD).
Community Engagement: Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the wider community, including parents, carers, trustees, and other schools.
Inclusive Education Advocate: Demonstrated commitment to advancing equality and overcoming disadvantage among pupils.
Research-Led Practice: Engage with external and internal research to innovate and improve teaching practices.
Performance Management: Experience in managing staff performance, addressing underperformance, and valuing excellent practice.
Change Management: Evidence of implementing, managing, and evaluating change collaboratively.
Empowering Leadership: Demonstrated ability to inspire and empower all staff and pupils to excel.
Further details about the role
The Quinta Primary School is seeking to appoint a passionate and dedicated teacher to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be an expert classroom practitioner with strong knowledge of early years and year 1 education - experience of teaching across the full age range from 2 -11 is desirable but not essential.
As SENDco, we are looking for a truly inspirational leader with expert knowledge of SEND legislation, a proven track record in implementing or working within well-established, effective systems and the ability to connect with and lead people from all backgrounds.
In the role of Assistant Headteacher, the successful candidate must exhibit excellent problem solving and organisational skills. We value proactive, positive and purposeful individuals.
Job satisfaction is vital and our successful team supports high quality provision that also promotes staff wellbeing. This position offers the opportunity to work alongside a highly experienced Inclusion Team. This team is made up of the Designated Safeguarding Lead, Senior SEND Consultant, Senior Mental Health Lead and Assistant head for Inclusion.
As a part of our commitment to developing our own resource provision, you will play a pivotal role in the central design team responsible for crafting and shaping the provision.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.