Assistant Headteacher - Pastoral Lead (French or Spanish Specialist)
George Mitchell School, London, E10 5DN12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
25 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- French, Spanish
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- LDS 11-15 (£67,762 - £74,239)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an outstanding Pastoral Leader who will join the Senior Leadership Team as Assistant Headteacher to lead the further development of our pastoral/behaviour systems.
As the Pastoral leader you will have responsibility for leading, developing and managing behaviour systems; ensuring that standards of attainment and achievement are high and students make accelerated and sustained progress. We are looking to appoint an inspirational leader who will:
- Be an outstanding teacher with a passion for teaching.
- Be up to date with positive behaviour management strategies and trauma informed practice
- Be passionate about inclusive practice an equality of opportunity.
- Be an excellent communicator.
The pastoral support team includes a full-time, non-teaching pastoral support manager, 2 pastoral support workers, and 5 Learning leaders (Heads of year), for which the successful candidate will have line management responsibility.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant difference to the life chances of our students. You will have an important role in building on the good standards already achieved at George Mitchell School. We are very proud of the achievements our students make academically and in many other areas of their lives, whether that be through participation in sports clubs or the Duke of Edinburgh Award. We aspire to provide the very best educational opportunities and outcomes for all our students.
What the school offers its staff
George Mitchell School is aspiring to be an outstanding school, and we welcome colleagues who want to join us, and our students, on that journey. Our students who hail from a richly diverse area, with many ethnic groups and languages represented. This, along with our modern buildings and large outside spaces, make George Mitchell a fantastic place to work.
We are very much a community school at the heart of a local neighbourhood, and we provide a haven in which our children feel safe, valued and happy. Each child at George Mitchell is special and we do our utmost to ensure that each student is given every opportunity to learn and succeed.
George Mitchell is committed to supporting the well-being of our staff, offering:
- Non-meetings weeks throughout the year to support with reducing workload
- School theatre trips with free teacher tickets
- Employee Assistance Programme
- New catering facility with a variety of healthy meals discounted for staff
- Personalised CPD programme
- Bike 2 work Scheme
- Team building whole staff sessions
- An appraisal system offering opportunities to develop your own career progression
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and an Enhanced DBS Clearance.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to helena.culliney@georgemitchellschool.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About George Mitchell School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 16
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1003 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- George Mitchell School website
- Email address
- helena.culliney@georgemitchellschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02085396198
Arranging a visit to George Mitchell School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email helena.culliney@georgemitchellschool.co.uk.
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