Assistant Head Teacher- Personal Development (4-16)
Lipa Primary and High School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 7BTThis job expired on 26 April 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
26 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 April 2024
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £52,074-£58,959
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
Experience
- Successful teaching experience in the primary or secondary phase - evidence of being a consistently good/outstanding teacher
- Experience of managing and leading on aspects of personal development
- Successful experience of working collaboratively.
- An understanding of monitoring, evaluating and improving student progress
- 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 personal development provision
- 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 in a comprehensive, mainstream setting
- An understanding of developing effective intervention strategies for students with SEND 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 personal development
- 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 approaches to the development of pupils social and emotional health 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 various issues and associated strategies to support with the development of pupils
- 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 Primary and High School is a growing all-through school in Liverpool City Centre with 560 pupils on roll, ranging from Reception to Year 9. 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, under the guidance of the Executive Headteacher and co-Headteachers (Primary and Secondary), will have a pivotal role in moulding and evaluating strategies for personal development within the school community. This encompasses staying abreast of contemporary approaches to personal growth and adapting the school's methods accordingly.
Their primary objective will be to elevate the standard of teaching and learning through adept personal development practices, tailored to meet the requirements of every student. This entails offering ongoing opportunities for professional growth to both teaching and support staff, and ensuring that the assistance provided yields favourable results.
Commitment to safeguarding
LIPA Primary and High School is committed to the highest standards in protecting and safeguarding the children entrusted to our care.
Our school will support all children by:
Promoting a caring, safe and positive environment within the school
Encouraging self-esteem and self-assertiveness
Effectively tackling bullying and harassment
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About Lipa Primary and High School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 16
- Education phase
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- School size
- 484 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Lipa Primary and High 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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