Assistant Headteacher (Narrowing the Gaps)
Isca Academy, Exeter, Devon, EX2 6APThis job expired on 17 October 2024
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
17 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
4 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday 32.5 hours per week 52.143 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- 9-13
What skills and experience we're looking for
Experience
of teaching in a state comprehensive school.
Experience of contributing to and delivering strategies to raise progress and achievement.
Experience of monitoring and evaluating performance and of using data to inform school improvement and ultimately improving student outcomes.
Delivering whole school CPD
Experience of leading a department or whole school area of responsibility.
Qualifications and training
Qualified teacher status.
Educated to degree level – in the specialist area you teach.
A gifted leader with a proven track record of leadership impact.
A gifted teacher with the ability to teach in an exciting and engaging manner.
Excellent planning skills.
Excellent inter-personal skills.
Proven ability to sustain positive relationships with staff, students and parents.
Thorough grasp of data, including analysing data and using this effectively to improve student outcomes.
Excellent ICT skills to support teaching and learning.
Excellent organisation, prioritisation and time management skills
Meets all relevant national teaching standards.
Good understanding of the National Curriculum and GCSE assessment requirements.
Ability to plan and scaffold schemes of learning to challenge and inspire young people.
Strategic thinking.
Excellent communicator both orally and in writing.
A team player.
Energetic and committed.
Ability to work under pressure.
High level of integrity.
Positive role model.
Commitment to education as a tool for improving the life chances of children.
Proven commitment to a safe school culture.
Commitment to an inclusive and child-centred approach to education.
Must pass all relevant safeguarding of children checks
What the school offers its staff
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
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.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Isca Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 985 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Isca Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@iscaexeter.co.uk
At Isca Academy, we are relentlessly ambitious for all our pupils and intend to have the best outcomes in the country by 2027. We are at the start of a five-year journey to becoming the best school in the country and are unapologetic about this ambition. We intend to transform Isca into a beacon of national excellence in order to support the improvement of education in the South West. We understand that outcomes in our region are not good enough and are determined to change this.
As a member of our team, you will reflect this ambition and these values in everything you do. We are always searching for relentlessly driven individuals who reflect our core values of Inspiration, Success, Community and Ambition. We believe, as a part of the Ted Wragg Trust, in growing great people; if you are someone who embodies our values and reflects our purpose, we will ensure you have the training and opportunities you need in order to become outstanding in every area of your work. Above all, we seek people driven by the belief that all young people, regardless of background, can achieve at the very highest level
Arranging a visit to Isca Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@iscaexeter.co.uk.
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