Assistant headteacher
Bishopswood School, Reading, RG4 9RHThis job expired on 15 July 2024 – see similar jobs
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!
Commitment to safeguarding
The Propeller Academy Trust and its member schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people according to child protection and safeguarding guidelines. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Posts classed as having a high degree of contact with children or vulnerable adults are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All post holders are subject to the necessary pre-employment check, including a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, including a Child/Adult’s Barred List check (where applicable to the role in question).
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
- 72 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
Bishopswood is a special school in South Oxfordshire (Berkshire border) that provides specialist education for children aged 2—16 years with severe (SLD) or profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and complex needs, including those children with ASD.
Holding an inclusive ethos, Bishopswood endeavours to provide specialist provision alongside its co-located mainstream partners across two sites.
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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