Assistant Head Teacher

Mount Tamar School, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 2EF

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 December 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £63,118.00 - £69,579.00 Annually (FTE) L10 - L14

Assistant Head Teacher job summary

Mount Tamar has a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, with about 110 pupils on roll from many different Local Authorities in the South West.

The school caters for young people aged 4 to 16 years who, for a variety of reasons, find it difficult to be successful within mainstream schools as full-time pupils. We specialise in supporting students with social and emotional difficulties, attachment and autism.

The school manages a small number of satellite centres across Plymouth to meet individual students' academic and social needs. We strive to provide the very best educational experience so that all our students can reach their full potential, as they become responsible and proactive members of the community.

We are a friendly and caring community that firmly believes in treating each young person as an individual and providing them with the skills and tools they need to be a success. Mount Tamar School offers a quality-learning environment with all students being supported by a team of experienced trained staff dedicated to sustaining a school, where excellent teaching enables students to develop their abilities to the full.

The core purpose of the Assistant Head role is to provide professional leadership and management to ensure all pupils have excellent outcomes and staff are supported and developed in their roles.

Accountable to the Executive Headteacher, the Assistant Headteacher will be joining an established team consisting of the Executive Headteacher, Head of School, Deputy Headteacher (Quality of Education), one existing Assistant Headteacher (Behaviour and Attitudes) and the school’s SENCO this new role will focus on personal development across the school.

The main purpose of the role will be to support the Executive Head Teacher and Head of School in communicating the school’s vision compellingly and supporting the headteacher’s strategic leadership, support the day-to-day management of the school, establishing policies for achieving these aims and objectives, and managing staff and resources.

This role will focus on the Personal development of all pupils at Mount Tamar. The role will involve looking at how the curriculum and SEND provision supports this for all pupils and how we can be Ofsted Good or better in all areas of the inspection framework.

As part of this role you will have specific responsibilities for;

Line management and day to day oversight and support of the running of one of the schools sites (Site chosen dependent on successful applicant)

Leading of CPD that directly links to improvement planning and staff development

Line management of curriculum areas (dependent on successful candidates)

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Mount Tamar School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 16
• School size: 106 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-tamar-school-plymouth (opens in new tab)

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