What skills and experience we're looking for
Our Opportunity:
Lythe is a vibrant, unique and friendly school, with willing and capable staff, engaged and happy pupils in a beautiful location and a new exciting curriculum. With an established ongoing partnership with Goathland Primary School, our new Headteacher will maximise this relationship, assuming shared leadership and continuing to embed our curriculum whilst exploring formal federation between the two schools, solidifying the annually reviewed shared leadership arrangements.
About You:
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding, committed and experienced Headteacher to further shape our thriving school in the next phase of its development. The successful candidate will be an effective communicator, an effective people manager and a leader who can instil confidence in staff, parents and pupils. You will be a resilient, enthusiastic person who is sympathetic to the challenges that staff have faced in the last year and you will need to be sympathetic to, and have an understanding of, the challenges faced by small rural schools, alongside recognising the value of the school’s location and the benefits of forest and beach schools.
To succeed, you must be a proven leader and manager with excellent teaching skills and the ability to develop our small, dedicated team whilst maximising achievement. An excellent communicator, you should have a thorough knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy and possess strong networking skills enabling you to maintain and develop future partnerships. You will lead by example and display an ambition to embrace and develop relationships with the community and the church, whilst allowing our pupils to continue to be the very best they can be and our staff to continue to be very highly motivated and cohesive. Whilst ambitious, you will also possess a high level of sensitivity and will want to move forward without making significant changes. This is a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional senior leader to take the school to the next level in its exciting journey.
What the school offers its staff
• Happy and friendly schools, with delightful children who respect each other and have a thirst for learning.
• A culture which allows all staff to thrive and develop.
• An opportunity to see the huge potential that exists and the time to make Lythe CE Primary and Goathland Schools a beacon of excellence in primary education.
• Significant levels of support from the Local Authority, Diocese, Governing Board and a staff team who are experienced, committed and passionate about our school.
• A Governing Body committed to providing support on all matters including more sensitive or difficult issues and including the wellbeing of all staff members.
• The school is part of a Cluster where the Headteachers meet regularly. This provides a support network for sharing ideas and best practice.
• A beautiful setting in the heart of the North Yorkshire Moors, very close to Sandsend beach and Whitby.
Further details about the role
For further information on our wonderful opportunity, please consider the information provided on our dedicated recruitment microsite.
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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.