Assistant Head Teacher
Oak View School, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1TSDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
18 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £59,213.00 - £69,964.00 Annually (Actual) n/a
Assistant Head Teacher job summary
Assistant Head Teacher
Full time
Salary Leadership spine 7 -14, Dependent on experience.
September 2025 start
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Oak View School is a good school (Ofsted 2022), and due to the promotion of one of our Assistant Head Teachers to Deputy Head Teacher we are looking for an inspiring and imaginative leader to join our Senior Leadership Team. We are a specialist provision school and currently have 130 pupils who have significant, severe and complex needs.
This role would suit someone currently in Middle Management at a SEND school, or someone in the SLT of a SEND school, looking to widen their experience further!
You will help to develop creative new approaches to learning throughout the school.
We are an outward-facing school and aim to further develop links with local partners to benefit our pupils and young people.
You will share responsibility for safeguarding with the Head.
You will be a key player in moving the school from “good to outstanding”.
You will take responsibility for specific areas of school life (to be agreed, dependent on experience).
This is a non-class-based role.
Your role will be flexible and will reflect the priorities of the school development plan. You will have particular responsibility for driving forward specific aspects of the SDP.
The post offers the opportunity to gain a wide and varied experience of school leadership and management. It also offers the chance for the right candidate to be innovative and to make their mark in a rapidly developing school.
You will need to demonstrate a proven track record of outstanding teaching and working with pupils who have a range of Special Educational Needs within a SEND setting. Equally, we would like you to have experience in leadership in SEND practice. You will have an inclusive approach to education, high aspirations for all pupils, staff and the school. You will be able to lead and motivate a team. You will be a reflective practitioner who models emotional intelligence and resilience and is proactive in their work, constantly seeking to improve provision and outcomes for all pupils.
We are a small school, and therefore it is imperative that the successful candidate can build effective working relationships with colleagues, pupils, parents/carers and external agencies.
We are a friendly, supportive and highly skilled staff team and work with unique and engaging pupils. Our Team works closely with parents and professionals from several other fields. We are a Trauma Perspective Practice (TPP) school, with our values and ethos deeply embedded in understanding our pupils at the deepest root and responding to them using bespoke strategies to enable them to flourish and make progress whilst in our care.
Our school sits within the Epping Forest School Partnership Trust. Oak View School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Certificate is required for this post prior to commencement.
The closing date for this vacancy is Sunday 18th May 2025 at Midnight
Interview date: Tuesday, 20th May 2025
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Oak View School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 134 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Oak View School website
School location
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