Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion
Wooburn Green Primary School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP10 0HFThis job expired on 4 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
4 November 2024 at 4pm
Date listed
15 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £47,185.00 - £50,507.00 Annually (Actual) L1-L4 Pay Scales
Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion job summary
Key responsibilities
Whole school leadership and management:
- As part of the Leadership Team to develop the school’s vision and policy, to make strategic evaluations of learning and teaching and to lead and manage staff towards achieving the school’s goals.
- To share the strategic vision and values of the school and model these through your everyday work and practice.
- To build the team, motivating others in order to create a shared culture of improvement and a positive learning climate.
- To play a major part in the development of teaching and learning throughout the school.
- To contribute to, and help implement, the School Improvement Plan.
- To provide advice guidance and support to teachers and subject co-ordinators.
- To lead and participate in regular staff meetings
Other professional requirements:
- To set an excellent standard of behaviour and to be an inspiring role model for children
- To establish and maintain constructive relationships with parents.
- To be responsible for the welfare, safety and professionalism of support staff, students and others working in the classroom and to ensure that they are deployed effectively.
- To take shared responsibility for the school environment and to encourage children to have a pride in their school.
- To be supportive of other work colleagues and to foster good working relationships and a friendly working environment
- To promote a positive image of the school and the Trust in the community
Teaching responsibilities:
- This role will include responsibility for a class as designated by the Headteacher. This will include registration and other administration matters relating to the class. This overall responsibility will include:
- Planning and preparing lessons
- Teaching pupils according to their educational needs including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in school and elsewhere
- Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils
- Using available assessment data in order to identify gaps in attainment for vulnerable groups including Pupil Premium children and to take action in order to close the gaps
- Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any other class or group of pupils assigned
- Providing guidance and advice to pupils on educational and social matters
- Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils
- Communicating and consulting with parents of pupils
- Communicating and consulting with persons or bodies outside the school and participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described. Providing or contributing to oral and written assessment reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils
- Participating in arrangements made for Appraisal
- Advising and co-operating with the Headteacher and other teachers on the preparation and development of programmes of study, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements
- Participating in any meetings which relate to the curriculum, administration or organisation of the school
- Supervising and, as far as practicable, teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available to teach
Personal development:
- In co-operation with the Trust and the Headteacher be committed to your own personal development and development as a school leader
- To develop and maintain a culture of high expectations for yourself and others
- Rigorously review and reflect about your own practice, keep up to date with developments in the educational landscape and set personal targets
Safeguarding
- Ensure that a culture of safeguarding is of paramount importance across the school
- Report any child protection concerns immediately, in accordance with school procedures
P Please refer to the attached job description and person spec
This job description will be reviewed annually and may be subject to amendment or modification at any time after consultation with the post holder and Governors or Trustees. It is not a comprehensive statement of procedures and tasks but sets out the main expectations of the school and the Great Learners Trust in relation to the post holder’s professional responsibilities and duties.
The Great Learners Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
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.
About Wooburn Green Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 146 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Wooburn Green Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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