Assistant Head Teacher- Behaviour (4-16)
Lipa School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 7BT9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
14 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- (£54,939- £62,202)
Pay scale
- L5-L10
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications and training
- A Graduate with QTS.
- Evidence of additional recent and continuing professional development
- Evidence of being a consistently good/outstanding teacher
Experience
- Ideally, successful teaching experience in both primary and secondary phase
- Experience of managing and leading behaviour provision
- Successful experience of working collaboratively.
- An understanding of monitoring, evaluating and improving student behaviour
- Experience of successfully challenging underperformance of staff and students
- Successful experience of implementing strategies to improve student progress and attainment and to remove barriers to learning
- Successful experience of working as part of a team to manage change in an educational setting
- Experience of successfully leading teams
- Experience of working with outside agencies in order to promote student behaviour
- Experience of developing and sharing effective learning and teaching strategies and differentiation across the curriculum.
Skills and knowledge
- Excellent subject knowledge and awareness of the latest initiatives relating to effective behaviour management
- A secure understanding of how to develop and improve teaching and the contribution it makes to school improvement
- High level of communication, organisational and management skills
- The ability to translate vision into practice.
- An understanding of issues related to improving the quality of teaching for all students
- An understanding of strategies to improve behaviour for learning for students with SEND & other vulnerable pupils in a comprehensive, mainstream setting
- An understanding of developing effective intervention strategies for students with behavioural issues in order to improve progress.
- An understanding of factors supporting school improvement, how to secure and sustain effective learning and progress throughout the college.
- Knowledge of inclusivity and a commitment to learn about all Liverpool's communities.
- An understanding of current educational issues and relevant legislation relating to behaviour management in schools including exclusions statutory guidance.
- Skilled in the use of ICT and possessing understanding of its potential contribution to school provision and improvement.
- A working understanding of the inspection framework and its implications for school leadership.
- Experience of leading high performing teams and managing a team
- The ability to inspire /lead and promote the behaviour team and be the influential advocate for our students
Personal qualities
- A pro-active, energetic and enthusiastic leader
- Have professional capacity and knowledge of effective behaviour management to contribute to improving teaching
- The ability to understand complex matters holistically and develop strategy to make coherence
- Emotional intelligence with the ability to recognise and manage stress in self and others
- Confidence and credibility based on experience and knowledge of behavioural issues and strategies
- Commitment to learning and professional development in self and others
- Commitment to safeguarding young people
- Resilience, self-motivation, stamina and the ability to undertake a variety of roles in a pressurised and demanding context.
- Openness and resilience to educational change
What the school offers its staff
LIPA School is a growing all-through school in Liverpool City Centre with 597 pupils on roll, ranging from Reception to Year 10. We are also part of LIPA Multi Academy Trust.
We immerse children in the creative and performing arts to enrich teaching and learning in the early development of language, reading, writing and mathematics skills. We provide outstanding education, focusing strongly on English, Mathematics, Science and the creative and performing arts using an engaging curriculum, inspiring teachers and excellent learning resources to help pupils to enjoy and succeed in learning.Our school is a vibrant and exciting place to learn, where children are happy, engaged, motivated and well behaved.
You will be part of a well-supported and valued team.
All employees are enrolled into an Employee Assistance Programme, which offers support in and outside of school
Further details about the role
The Assistant Headteacher, guided by the Head Teacher, will play a significant role in shaping and assessing behavioural policies and practices within the school community. This involves staying updated on current trends in behaviour management and adjusting the school's approach accordingly.
They will focus on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning through effective behaviour management to cater to the needs of all students and especially those with special educational needs and other vulnerable individuals. This includes providing continuous professional development opportunities for both teaching and support staff, and ensuring that the support provided yields positive outcomes.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr-enquiries@lipaprimary.org
CVs are not accepted.
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About Lipa School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 16
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 544 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lipa School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr-enquiries@lipaprimary.org
- Phone number
- 01519580020
Based in the centre of Liverpool, our school, sponsored by The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, opened in September 2014.
We are an all-through school that provides children with a broad and balanced curriculum and have a particular focus on the creative and performing arts. We currently have 560 children from Reception to Year 9, growing to Year 10 from September 2024.
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