Assistant Head Teacher
Cornfield School, Littlehampton, Littlehampton, West Sussex, BN17 6HYThis job expired on 3 February 2020 – see similar jobs
Job start date
20 April 2020
Closing date
3 February 2020 at 9am
Date listed
20 December 2019
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- Lead Practitioners range 6 to Lead Practitioners range 10, £48,665 to £53,519
Additional allowances
Leadership Scale 6-10 plus SEN 1 Allowance
This is a wonderful opportunity for an aspiring Leader and someone who wishes to further their career and make a developmental impact in our school.We offer excellent CPD and an extensive induction program
Assistant Head Teacher job summary
Job Title: Assistant Head Teacher
Salary Scale: STPC Leadership Point – 6-10
Contract: Full time
Responsible to: The Headteacher and Governing Body of Thrive Federation
Main Purpose of Job
Support the Head Teacher in providing professional leadership for Cornfield, which strives for success and continuous improvement, ensuring high quality education for every pupil.
• Teach half a timetable, strength in Maths or another core subject
• Manage Continued Professional Development for designated staff and evaluate the impact that it has on pupils’ learning.
• Lead Data collections and analysis of behaviour and SEAL progress
• Examinations Officer
• Recording and reporting
• Parent Liaison
• PM Appraisal
• Management oversight of WRL and extended curriculum
• Teach in curriculum subject area
Duties and Responsibilities
You are required to carry out the professional duties of a teacher other than a Head
Teacher as written in the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.
To play a major role under the overall direction of the Head Teacher in:
• Positively supporting the aims and objectives of the school
• Monitoring progress towards pupils’ achievement.
Strategic Direction and Development of the School
• Support the Head Teacher in providing vision, purpose and leadership.
• Ensure the commitment of all who are involved in Cornfield School to its aims and
vision.
• Actively lead areas of the School Development Plan.
• Monitor and take actions under guidance from the Head Teacher.
• Take a positive and active part in the school’s Senior Leadership Team.
Teaching and Learning
• Positively contribute to the teaching and learning objectives of the school.
• Positively promote differentiation with the aim to ensure the curriculum meets the needs of every pupil who attends the school.
• Positively promote communication with the aim that all staff expect and enable every pupil to communicate.
• Exemplify a good standard of classroom practice which meets the aims and objectives of the school
• Assist the Head Teacher in supporting and monitoring teachers to meet standards set out on the professional development framework.
• Establish, manage and expect high standards of pupil behaviour.
• Undertake a significant teaching timetable and, by example, to provide a good professional model as classroom practitioner.
• Ensure that a high standard of education is maintained at all times for all pupils and that all suitable programmes are developed and kept under review.
• Be familiar with current theory and practice relating to pupils with special needs and inform staff of these developments.
• Work in conjunction with the Head Teacher to ensure that the learning needs of all pupils are met.
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Leading and Managing Staff
• Assist in the school’s Performance Management of teachers
• Manage CPD throughout the school so that all staff receive training that is appropriate to the current School Development Plan.
• Support the head teacher in ensuring that all documentation is completed and handed in by the agreed date.
• When appropriate lead staff INSET.
• Manage examinations across the school ensuring all staff and students prepared for examination series
• Manage oversight of College links and Work Related Learning programs.
Effective Deployment of Staff and Resources
• Manage the budget and resources for area of responsibility.
Accountability
• Maintain a record of how you have moved your agreed areas forward.
• If appropriate write and deliver a report to the Management Committee that evaluates the progress that your work has had on supporting the pupils’ learning.
• Assist the Head Teacher in ensuring that staff understand and support the school’s aims and objectives
• Registered DSL as one of a team of four.
Other Responsibilities:
• Identifying and monitoring the delivery of appropriate education for identified groups of pupils
• Liaison with appropriate agencies
• Monitoring WRL and individual student induction
• Coordinating in house INSET
• Carrying out the duties of Child Protection Officer in conjunction with the Headteacher and DHT
• Coordinate the delivery of Functional Skills in line with National requirements
• Examinations officer and data analysis of examination outcomes
Undertake other reasonable duties as may be requested by the Head Teacher
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
About Cornfield School, Littlehampton
- School type
- Special school, ages 8 to 16
- School size
- 68 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 8 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- OFFICE@CORNFIELDSCHOOL.ORG.UK
Cornfield school is a West Sussex Maintained Special needs school for boys from 8 to 16 with social emotional/behavioural difficulties. Pupil numbers are 72 as of January 2023
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