Assistant Headteacher – Additional Needs, Culture of Safeguarding and Attendance
The Billericay School, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9LH5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
27 February 2025 at 4pm
Date listed
19 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Scale Point 14-18
Assistant Headteacher – Additional Needs, Culture of Safeguarding and Attendance job summary
Potential candidates are encouraged to get in touch with any questions they might have or to arrange a visit to the school and the team.
The Assistant Headteacher – Additional Needs will be accountable for:
- Safeguarding (DSL).
- Strategic leadership of safeguarding culture within the school.
- Designated Teacher – CLA.
- Early Intervention – Vulnerable Students.
- Outside Agency intervention coordination.
- Supporting OSD/BAP Students and CSS.
- Lead Timetable personalisation and Alt Ed provision.
- Leadership of attendance, punctuality and persistent absence
- Represent school at CIN or social care meetings.
- Self-Review (CLA/Attendance /Safeguarding culture).
- DFE attendance returns.
- Oversight of admissions and 6 into 7 transition.
- Staff wellbeing/Mental Health lead.
- Line Management of School Counsellors.
- A visible presence around the school at break, lunch and lesson transitions.
- To support behaviour with SLT Walkabout or Unit.
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.
About The Billericay School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1697 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Billericay School website (opens in new tab)
The Billericay School is one of the largest schools in Essex with a roll of almost 1700 students, including 300 in the Sixth Form. The school site enjoys an enviable location; close to the town centre, yet situated in spacious grounds, the school is positioned on an elevated site with distant and sweeping views down towards the River Thames and beyond. In times past, a windmill stood nearby, a piece of local history still commemorated in the school badge.
Teaching takes place in five principal blocks.
The original structure, that dates from the school's foundation some sixty years ago includes an open air, furnished and planted quadrangle for lower school students to use during the summer months.
Other buildings include a modern Technology and Business Studies block, an Art, Food Technology and Textiles building and a Sixth Form Centre that provides a modern, attractive environment for our older students.
Other resources include a large assembly hall with television link, a drama studio, a music suite with recording studio, a media area with video editing suite and a large library/ resource based learning centre, which includes extensive ICT and study facilities as well as housing over 30,000 books.
The school's sporting facilities are exceptional, including a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium and fitness suite.
Our grounds include tennis and netball courts and football, rugby and cricket pitches. The school has recently achieved the national Sportsmark Award for its sporting excellence and work with the community.
The school also has a medical room, with the services of qualified staff throughout the school day.
It is also worthy of note that many of our staff have chosen to send their own children to the school. What greater sign of confidence could there be!
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