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Location: New Barn School, Newbury, RG20 8HZ
Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum dependent on experience
Hours: Monday - Friday
Contract: Permanent, Term Time only
As part of our continued growth in service, we are recruiting for a Headteacher for New Barn School in Newbury. Our well-established schools support pupils ages 6 to 19 who have social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH), as well as other complex needs.
About The Role
This is an excellent opportunity for an inspiring Headteacher to join our fantastic team. Our Headteacher will commit to improving our pupil’s academic performance, help students overcome their behavioural difficulties and develop their social skills and raise their aspirations.
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.
Who We Are Looking For
The successful candidate 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.
Essential Qualifications
* Relevant experience in the specialist area of the service, i.e. relevant experience working with young people who have additional learning and communication difficulties.
* Relevant experience as a Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher in a SEMH 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
New Barn School offers a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum to boys and girls, aged 6–19 years who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health complexities.
New Barn School takes full advantage of its beautiful settings and fosters a love for using the outdoor curriculum including forest school, farm experiences and horse riding. The school is within a commutable distance of Swindon, Oxford, Andover, Basingstoke and Reading and other surrounding towns and villages.
Why join Acorn Education?
Benefits
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 the 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.
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