Assistant Headteacher
James Rennie School, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 0BUThis job expired on 18 March 2020 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2020
Closing date
18 March 2020 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 February 2020
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- £46,430 to £51,234
Additional allowances
Assistance with SENCO role.
Assistant Headteacher job summary
Purpose of the Post
To support and be a key person in the senior leadership team, with responsibility for leading our Primary Department and special educational needs coordination, with a 0.7 class responsibility.
Professional Duties
In addition to all those duties and responsibilities set out in “School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2016 and any subsequent statutory orders, the following are deemed, inter alia, to be essential responsibilities of an Assistant Head Teacher at James Rennie School.
In addition to the above, an Assistant Head Teacher is required to carry out the following:
• To support all students in achieving their potential.
• To play a major role, in conjunction with the Head Teacher, in formulating and carrying out the aims and objectives of the school and to ensure these aims are transferred to the staff
• To further develop learning pathways for pupils in our primary department.
• To ensure the staff within the Primary department carry out their day to day classroom responsibilities
• To hold Department meetings to discuss development, curriculum, teaching and learning and day to day management issues.
• To have a daily overview of staffing within the Department.
• With the head teacher evaluate the standards of teaching and learning in the Department, and ensure that proper standards of professional performance are established and maintained
• To lead a team of professionals to drive standards within the Department.
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team to identify areas for improvement and strategies from the school pupil performance data
• With the Head Teacher understand and implement relevant national strategies within the Department
• To communicate key messages arising from the SEF and Development Plan
• To ensure strategies within the department have maximum impact
• To work with the Deputy Head Teacher to ensure the delivery of the curriculum.
• To have a performance management role with other staff, be able to analyse strengths and weaknesses and advise on development for staff.
• To ensure the maintenance of good order and discipline at all times during the school day (including the midday break) when pupils are present on the school premises and whenever the pupils are engaged in authorised school activities, whether on the school premises or elsewhere
• To lead by example, providing educational vision, direction and innovation to secure the commitment of staff, parents and pupils
• To create and maintain an effective partnership with parents and carers to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development
• To support the Head Teacher in deciding on the effective deployment of staff.
• To understand the importance of effective financial management and to manage and monitor a budget
• To lead on special education needs coordination, including the quality assurance of EHCPs.
• To report and work with our LAB and the Eden Trust as required.
• To create and maintain an effective partnership with a range of agencies and professional bodies
• To deliver a fair and equitable management style for staff and pupils
• To be able to develop and drive with the Head Teacher the shape of education for our primary aged pupils
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 James Rennie School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 167 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- James Rennie School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- adminoffice@jamesrennie.cumbria.sch.uk
School location
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