Salary:
Leadership Group Pay Spine L15 – L21 (Outer London)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
Required for September 2025
Apply by:
31 January 2025
Job overview
The Governors of this highly successful and oversubscribed 11-18 school are seeking to appoint an outstanding Assistant Headteacher. The successful candidate will join an experienced and enthusiastic Leadership Team committed to a programme of continuous improvement.
Orleans Park is an Outstanding School (Ofsted November 2023) with over 1,350 students, serving its local community in Twickenham. The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.
We are seeking a current Assistant Headteacher or experienced middle leader and the successful applicant will be an outstanding teacher with:
1. a proven record of raising attainment and making a difference
2. excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
3. the ability to contribute to the strategic direction of the school
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received so early application is encouraged and we reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
Closing date for applications: 10am on Friday 31 January 2025
Interviews: week beginning 3 February 2025
Orleans Park is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do. Ensuring that we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our local communities gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to provide an outstanding education to our young people and an outstanding place for people to work.
In line with the statutory guidance document Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024) the school will conduct online searches after the shortlisting process for any candidates who accept an invitation to interview. The appointment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS Disclosure. Orleans Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.
About Orleans Park School
* Richmond Road
* Twickenham
* TW1 3BB
* United Kingdom
What Orleans Park has to offer:
* a commitment to the professional development of all its staff to become outstanding teachers and leaders
* regular CPD sessions
* Sixth Form in dedicated buildings and facilities
* employee assistance programme – supporting staff wellbeing
* situated on a 16-acre site close to the River Thames and the centre of Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
* easy access to central London and excellent transport links for bus, train, Underground and Overground services
* close to the M3/M4/M25 with staff parking on site
* staff travel card loans
* Cyclescheme
Here’s what Ofsted have to say:
In November 2023, Ofsted recognised that Orleans Park continues to be an outstanding school. They said "Pupils thrive at this school. They are happy, safe and achieve very well" and that the school has "a broad and ambitious curriculum for all pupils". "Pupils build very respectful, working relationships with each other and with staff. Pupils learn to be responsible and reflect on their own actions. This results in very positive behaviour and exemplary attitudes to learning".
Core Values:
At Orleans Park the wellbeing, progress and achievement of every student are at the heart of everything we do.
We pride ourselves on being a happy and vibrant place to learn. We firmly believe that students achieve when they feel the genuine security of a community that supports learning and promotes social responsibility. To support students to be the best they can be, our core values are:
1. Responsibility
2. Resilience
3. Respect
The Orleans Park values are embedded in our vision. A value is a principle that guides our thinking and our behaviour. We believe that these values are as important within the school community as they are throughout life.
Through our school values we aim to:
1. Improve behaviour, conduct and confidence by developing strong values within the students at our school
2. Promote the key attributes needed to excel in all aspects of life both inside and outside of Orleans Park
3. Display the standards of conduct we expect of ourselves and each other to ensure our community thrives
4. To raise standards by promoting a school vision that is underpinned by our core values, supporting the development of the student as a reflective learner within a calm, caring, happy and purposeful atmosphere
Our school values ensure our students leave Orleans Park successful, confident responsible citizens.
Where to find us:
Close to central Twickenham, we are well served by local transport with several bus routes stopping right outside the school gates and train and tube stations nearby. St. Margarets and Twickenham Train Stations are both within easy walking distance for South Western Railway services and Richmond Station is one mile away for District Line Underground and Overground Services and South Western Railway.
Please explore our website as this will give you an insight into the vibrancy of Orleans Park: www.orleanspark.school
We look forward to receiving your application.
Kathy Pacey
Headteacher
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