What skills and experience we're looking for
The specific responsibilities of the Assistant Headteacher fall into the following areas:
• To fulfil all the responsibilities of a main-scale teacher
• To provide professional leadership and management for English
• To support, hold accountable, develop and lead department staff, including TLR post holders
• To ensure high standards of teaching, learning, student achievement and progress
• To play a full part in the life of the school community, supporting its ethos and policies and ensuring that staff and students follow this example.
What the school offers its staff
We offer you:
• A vibrant school with outstanding facilities.
• A welcoming staff culture, where we focus on supporting each other to grow and develop as teachers and aspiring leaders.
• An environment where students have an excellent attitude to learning where they can grow academically and personally. Pupils’ behaviour and safety was judged by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’.
• Students who, through the wide and diverse academic and extra-curricular opportunities they are offered, grow as individuals and happily contribute to the school community.
• Regular opportunities for staff to collaborate and share best practice.
• Opportunities to regularly develop your own professional practice through in-house CPD.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare. This post is subject to all the relevant pre-employment checks set out in “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, including an enhanced DBS certificate with a barred-list check, together with an additional check as part of the shortlisting process, will be to carry out an online search (including social media).