Assistant Headteacher: Key Stage 4 Raising Standards Leader
Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls, Thamesmead, SE28 8RFThis job expired on 19 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2023
Closing date
19 March 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Full-time hours, permanent contract
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Pay Scale L13 – L16
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
- Significant middle leadership experience
- A secure understanding of effective curriculum and assessment design
- Experience in leading improvements in learning and teaching at department or whole school level
- Is an outstanding classroom practitioner.
- Is an excellent communicator, able to inspire and motivate staff and students.
- Has the highest professional standards and adopts a ‘no excuses’ culture.
- Has developed leadership and management experience and skills to help the school meet its future goals.
What the school offers its staff
As a member of staff at Woolwich Polytechnic School we can offer you:
- Opportunities for career progression
- Excellent professional development
- A contributory pension scheme
- Opportunities to collaborate with outstanding and dynamic teaching professionals
- Access to various discounts for a small monthly fee
- An employee assistance programme
- Season ticket loans
- Finders fees for personal introductions of staff that we employ
- Excellent catering facilities
- Secure on-site parking
- A focus on wellbeing with a dedicated wellbeing committee to liaise with SLT
Further details about the role
Teaching is the most rewarding job in the world. We have the opportunity to change students’ lives for the better and you could make a positive impact at Woolwich Polytechnic for Girls as Assistant Headteacher.
We are looking for a motivated and inspirational leader who is committed to improving the academic outcomes for every single one of our students. Our school’s vision is ‘Success for Everyone’ and our Key Stage 4 Raising Standards Leader will play a pivotal role in ensuring that this is achieved.
Here at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls, we place significant value on our professional working relationships with others and, therefore, we are looking for an individual who not only has excellent inter-personal skills but also has a track record of forming strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders to achieve a shared vision and goal.
The successful candidate will need to have a secure understanding of effective curriculum and assessment design as well as experience in leading improvements in learning and teaching at departmental or whole school level.
Whilst previous senior leadership experience is not essential, we are looking for an individual who has significant middle leadership experience at curriculum level and, as result, has a track record of achieving strong academic outcomes at Key Stage 4/5 as a subject leader.
The school will be full with Years 7-11 for the first time in September 2023 and the successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring that our first set of GCSE results reflect fully the ambition we have for every single one of our students.
Commitment to safeguarding
All offer of employment is subject upon the Academy Trust receiving an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate (DBS), which the Academy considers to be satisfactory. Successful applicants, will be required to complete a DBS Application Form. Any information disclosed will be handled in accordance with the Code of Practice published by the Disclosure and Barring Service. The post you are applying for is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and it is therefore an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
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About Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 943 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- acherry@polymat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02083107000
PolyMAT is a small and ambitious MAT with a unique family feel . Our vision is ‘Success for Everyone’ and the successful candidate will help deliver this for our schools. We currently have three schools in our Trust: Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys, a long-successful boys’ school, Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls that opened in 2019, and Bannockburn Primary School, a large successful primary that joined the Trust on 1st November 2023. We also have our flourishing Sixth Form provision which is co-educational.
Following the success of our first ever Ofsted inspection at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls, we are looking for dedicated teachers that will join us on our journey in delivering an outstanding education for all our students. By joining us, you will play a vital role in supporting our girls to grow as women whose voices are heard and respected. Through this, we hope that they will become influential mothers, sisters, carers, friends and, ultimately, successful and happy members of society.
As a school community and Trust, we place significant value on our professional working relationships with others. Therefore, we are looking for individuals who will be committed to forming strong relationships with other colleagues and stakeholders so that we can be united in achieving our shared vision and goals.
Our Trust and our schools pride themselves on a culture of high standards delivered through our values of Care and Unity. We provide a rewarding environment where students and staff feel valued and supported.
Working for PolyMAT may also present the unique opportunity for staff to teach across both schools and for candidates to join our recruitment pool for further openings.
Arranging a visit to Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email acherry@polymat.co.uk.
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