Assistant Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
Whitmore High School, Harrow, HA2 0AD23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
13 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £76,112.00 - £83,426.00 Annually (Actual)
Assistant Headteacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) job summary
MAIN DUTIES
Assistant Headteacher
Work to ensure excellent outcomes and provision across all areas and key stages of the school
Teach to a high standard across the 11-19 age range
Support in the development and communication of the school’s vision and ethos, policies, systems, organisation and processes
Promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and ensure anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of your work
Provide strategic and operational leadership of key areas of the school’s activities (the areas allocated will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate)
Line manage linked middle leaders, overseeing the quality of provision in linked departments and year groups, ensuring regular and systematic reviews provide early identification of strengths/weaknesses and effective interventions as required
Establish a culture of sharing good practice throughout the school and with other schools/organisations to secure excellent outcomes for all
Develop a broad, balanced and coherent curriculum that meets the needs of all students
Maintain high standards of behaviour and engagement and provide a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all students and staff
Champion and support the progress and personal development of vulnerable, disadvantaged and underachieving groups of students
Support the development of high performing teams across the school by training, developing and coaching staff
Contribute to the identification of training needs and the delivery of training activities
Assist with the recruitment and retention of high quality staff
Assist as required in ensuring the school meets all statutory safeguarding requirements and safeguarding provision reflects best practice
Build and maintain positive working relationships among all members of the school community
Attend meetings, working groups and committees as required
Deal with urgent issues and emergencies calmly and promptly as they arise
Assist with the supervision of students before school, at lunchtime and after school
Contribute to an effective and rigorous Performance Management process
Contribute to the effective and efficient day to day running of the school
Carry out other tasks as reasonably required to meet the changing needs of the school
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Managing referrals
Line manage the Assistant Designated Safeguarding Lead (ADSL) and local partners providing safeguarding services
Refer cases of suspected abuse and neglect to the local authority children’s social care
Support staff who make referrals to the local authority children’s social care
Refer cases to the Channel programme where there is a radicalisation concern
Support staff who make referrals to the Channel programme
Refer cases to the police where a crime may have been committed
Commitment to safeguarding
Whitmore High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and all staff are expected to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks. Online searches may be completed for shortlisted candidates as part of due diligence checks. It is an offence to apply for any role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all posts are listed as exempted employment. You therefore need to reveal all spent convictions during the recruitment and vetting process.
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 Whitmore High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1733 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Whitmore High School website (opens in new tab)
Whitmore High School is a mixed comprehensive school with an excellent record of achievement.
Students are expected to achieve the highest standards of work and behaviour in a positive, friendly but disciplined atmosphere. Our staff are highly qualified and passionate about ensuring all students reach their full potential and we work closely with parents to achieve this aim.
At Whitmore High School we aim to provide the best possible education for all our students by:
* Promoting a broad and balanced curriculum in which students take an active part in their own learning.
* Recognising the needs of individuals, placing suitable high demands on them and stimulating them to achieve success.
* Encouraging students to aim for the highest standards of work and behaviour at all times.
* Creating an ordered and friendly community where relationships are positive and founded on courtesy, respect and shared values.
* Acknowledging the importance of links between home, school and the wider community.
* Maintaining a spirit of constructive self-criticism, regularly considering improvements to existing practice.
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