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Assistant headteacher

Bishopswood School, Reading, RG4 9RH

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• 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, part 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!

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Propeller Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.

This role involves a high level of contact with children or vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check (including Barred List where applicable) and online searches for publicly available information.

We value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or pregnancy/maternity.

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About Bishopswood School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 16
• School size: 74 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bishopswood School website
• Email address: recruitment@bishopswoodschool.co.uk
• Phone number: 01189724311
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bishopswood-school-reading

Bishopswood is a community special school in South Oxfordshire that provides specialist education for children aged 4 – 16 years with severe (SLD) or profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and complex needs, including those children with ASD. We are a school that prides itself in providing innovative learning techniques to meet the wide-ranging needs of our pupils.

With an inclusive ethos Bishopswood endeavours to provide specialist provision alongside its co-located mainstream partners on two sites.; our main primary department which is co-located with Sonning Common primary school and Bishopswood’s secondary provision at Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge School, Sonning Common.

As a small but strong community of people we are committed to providing outstanding teaching and learning for our pupils which is achieved by working in close partnership with our families, professionals, governors and the wider community to deliver a tailored and inclusive education for every pupil.

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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