Assistant Head Teacher for Reading
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Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
18 May 2022 at 9am
Date listed
9 May 2022
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L5 - L9
Assistant Head Teacher for Reading job summary
If you have what it takes to make a difference, then the children of Springfield need YOU!
This isn’t just any leadership job. This is the opportunity to be part of something amazing, to improve the life chances of children and to accelerate your career at a phenomenal rate. This post is designed to empower the successful candidate to deliver exceptional opportunities for learning for children from the EYFS to Year 6.
ARE YOU:
An outstanding classroom practitioner keen to work in a supportive and principle based school?
Driven by a strong moral purpose to enable disadvantaged children to achieve against the odds?
Able to demonstrate vision and determination?
Warm in character, easy to work with and committed to teamwork, recognising that more can be achieved together than is possible as individuals?
Data literate: able to use tracking, assessment, monitoring and data analysis as a tool to accelerate pupil progress and achievement?
Unafraid of hard work?
Calm and able to handle pressure and setbacks?
Keen to be challenged to become the best leader that you can be?
Able to be pushed at an accelerated rate of development, and reflective and proactive enough to make it happen?
Committed to working in partnership with staff, parents governors and the local community?
Determined to succeed against the odds, with a ‘Find a way or make one!’ attitude?
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.
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About Springfield Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 499 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Springfield Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Recruitment@springfieldacademy.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0121 464 3618
If so, you’d love to work at Springfield Primary Academy. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and talented Assistant Headteacher to lead Reading provision including Early Reading. You will also be responsible for the operational leadership of a phase.
We are looking for a leader who:
• Has a proven track record of outstanding teaching;
• Is an expert practitioner in Reading across the primary age range;
• Can deliver high-quality continual professional development via a range of methods;
• Will play a major role in school development and self-evaluation processes;
• Ensures a robust evaluation of school performance, progress data and actions;
• Is committed to bringing the curriculum alive through inspirational learning;
• Can work strategically with the Senior Leadership Team and other subject leaders to ensure the Reading curriculum links with other areas of study;
• Adopts a strong, caring and flexible leadership style to influence and motivate staff and pupils to achieve their objectives and those of the school;
• Can contribute to maintaining an environment of fairness, respect and harmony between groups and individuals;
• Creates and implements strategies to fully involve parents in the learning process.
We would like to hear from existing senior leaders seeking a new challenge or ambitious middle leaders, looking for senior leadership responsibility with a genuine commitment to improving the life chances of the children they work with.
We can offer you:
• Exciting, accelerated leadership development and early promotion opportunities for the right candidate across the REAch2 Multi-Academy Trust https://www.reach2.org ;
• The chance to work with a fantastic leadership team;
• An excellent CPD programme;
• A dynamic, creative staff, dedicated to achieving excellence;
• Appreciative, well-behaved and enthusiastic pupils;
• Enthusiastic and proactive parents.
Since academisation, the school had made real progress and is now in an excellent position to accelerate learning for staff and children. As our new build and refurbishment project nears completion, this is a school that is really going places. Give us a call even if you're just a tiny bit interested - it really is as exciting as it sounds!
Arranging a visit to Springfield Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Recruitment@springfieldacademy.org.uk.
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