Assistant headteacher
Bishopswood School, Reading, RG4 9RH13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
15 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time, term time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £53,380 - £58,959
Pay scale
- L6 to L10
What skills and experience we're looking for
1. Essential Skills: • Uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct • Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to help the school raise standards of achievement • To be able to read and use data and to use a range of sources of evidence to make judgements and identify next steps. • To be confident in use of IT as a teaching, learning, communication and administrative tool. • Ability to create trusting, professional relationships within the school and the wider Trust 2 • Have excellent knowledge of childhood development. • To have an empathetic approach when dealing with staff, pupils and • Ability to develop packages of support and training modules and deliver them to a range of audiences. • Ability to be flexible in approach, be resilient and adapt quickly to changing needs. • A commitment to developing inclusive classroom practices. • High standards of innovation and creativity with resourcing. • An understanding of a range of SEN and suitable strategies applicable to a mainstream setting. • An ability to relate to staff including leaders and LA colleagues
What the school offers its staff
Our Values The Propeller Academy Trust supports young people with special needs. It's a special place where every student moves forward on their own trajectory. We never stand still! Our Headteachers create enriched curriculums which enable our young people to move through society with academic achievements, life experiences and emotional, communication & sensory skills. The Trust is the enabler for creating opportunities, working with Headteachers to deliver what our next generation of students need. Every young person has a personalised journey everyone is different! Our schools have their own identity and values. However, we come together with a shared vision, mutual respect and amazing resources. In return we are a collective team of passionate staff, who believe anything is possible!
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@bishopswoodschool.co.uk
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bishopswood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 16
- School size
- 70 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Bishopswood School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@bishopswoodschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01189724311
Arranging a visit to Bishopswood School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bishopswoodschool.co.uk.
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