Assistant Headteacher KS3
The Basildon Lower Academy, Basildon, Essex, SS14 1UXThis job expired on 1 April 2019 – see similar jobs
Job start date
3 September 2019
Closing date
1 April 2019 at 1am
Date listed
22 March 2019
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- £44,881 to £51,612
Assistant Headteacher KS3 job summary
The Assistant Head Key Stage 3 is responsible for supporting the Deputy Head and Headteacher in the leadership of the
Lower Academy on a day to day basis, and in formulating and putting into effect the key policies and practices which
ensure that the Academy’s strategic aims are achieved.
All members of the SLT play a key role in the strategic
development of the academy, supporting the Headteacher in creating a long-term vision and in implementing policies
and procedures on a day to day basis.
The role involves:
Developing, implementing and leading on strategies which enable the academies to achieve their targets
and strategic aims.
Role modelling professional standards, team ethos and higher level communications, leadership and
management skills.
Reporting, auditing and analysing responsibilities and outcomes in order to make recommendations, draw
conclusions and devise strategies to lead to improvements
Leading, coordinating, managing and performance managing staff and resources.
Promoting and ensuring the promotion of Equal Opportunities and Child Protection as a fundamental
aspect of all roles and practices in the academies.
Any other appropriate and reasonable responsibilities in keeping with the level of the post and the
requirements of the organisation.
Assessing and managing risk to ensure that problems are identified in good time and that a range of
appropriate solutions are developed and deployed.
Leadership Roles require the member of staff to play a full role in duty schedules: before, after and during the standard
school day. Leadership roles require that the person should meet the standards and skills required for the following
posts, role modelling them to more junior staff.
Specific details:
The post holder will lead on strategies to drive student progress and improve learning within key stage 3, working within
the policy and procedural structures established by the Headteacher.
The post involves setting the standards for middle
leaders, monitoring and evaluating planning and practice across departments to achieve academy targets. An important
strand of this post is directly leading strategies for interventions.
Reports to: this post is line managed by the Deputy Head, Lower Academy.
Line Manages: this post line manages selected middle leaders.
Responsibilities
*Student progress and attainment:
Ensuring all students at the Lower Academy make sustained and substantial progress and
attainment, meeting their targets at appropriate points.
Develop/embed curriculum models to measure and evaluate progress and ensuring staff CPD needs are met.
*Target setting –progress & attainment:
To ensure that Departments, leaders, and teaching staff have clear and accurate progress &
attainment targets, and that robust strategies in place for achieving these.
Ensuring all students have accurate progress and attainment targets and that target review points give appropriate opportunity for all students and parents to engage.
*KS3 Interventions Strategic Lead on all progress interventions.
To ensure that there are correctly identified intervention groups which ensure students get the targeted support they need in order to achieve their targets and academy targets.
*Interventions resourcing: To ensure that all students have access to appropriate resources to enhance their learning. Staff
leading interventions have required resourcing.
*Communication to parent/carers:
To organise regular information/review events for parents so that they are properly equipped to support their children.
Ensure accurate and timely progress reports are made available to parent/carers
*Line Management: Curriculum line management responsibility of select Faculty(s) and HOF(s).
*Evaluation and reporting:
To monitor the impact of strategies and actions in the ADP, ensuring that departments make appropriate progress against their targets.
Reporting KS3 progress to varied audiences (SLT, GB etc), evaluating outcomes and producing improvement plans.
*Transition: Support the transition processes for students from KS2-3 and KS3-4.
*Curriculum: To keep up to date with curriculum developments and ensure that these are reflected in our KS3 provision.
*Curriculum and Options: Work with the other member of the leadership team to ensure that the KS3 curriculum is
designed to meet the needs of all its students.
Leading and advising the options process in Year 8.
*Timetable: To work with the Deputy Head on curriculum mapping and timetabling Key Stage 3.
*Recruitment: To support the academy as a whole with regards to recruitment, appointments and the induction of staff as appropriate
Delegated responsibilities, as per the Job Description staff who are line/performance managed
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Basildon Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect their staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to DBS checks.
About The Basildon Lower Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 14
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 909 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 14
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Basildon Lower Academy website
- Email address
- lchurch@basildonacademies.org.uk
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