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Assistant Headteacher – Raising Standards

Prendergast School, London, SE4 1LE

This job expired on 9 October 2023 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 January 2024

• Closing date

  9 October 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  22 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: Assistant Headteacher
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Inner London Leadership Scale L14 – L18

What skills and experience we're looking for

Would you like to join a school where people are valued, thrive and make positive contributions?

We are seeking to appoint an exceptional Assistant Headteacher from January 2024. You will have a passion for ensuring the achievement of the highest possible educational standards and attainment. You will create an atmosphere and structures in which students feel valued, staff have high expectations of them and standards of assessment, reporting and interventions are exceptional.

The successful candidate will:

• be an excellent and ambitious classroom teacher with a proven and demonstrable track record of success at GCSE and A Level;
• have sustained and substantial middle leadership experience or preferably some senior leadership experience;
• have a good understanding of the current educational developments and educational data, especially those relating to the curriculum, examinations and assessment;
• significant relevant experience of contributing to whole school issues
• proven ability and enthusiasm to motivate students and staff
• the ability to raise expectations and aspirations of students of all abilities
• an understanding of effective strategies for urban schools.

Prendergast School is an Outstanding 11-16 Girls School with a mixed 6th Form and benefits from being part of the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools. It is one of the most successful schools in Lewisham. Awarded its third Outstanding OFSTED grading in a row in November 2013, the school has been leading girls’ education in Lewisham for over 125 years. The school currently holds the NACE Award, the Wellbeing Award and the Gold Artsmark Award.

What the school offers its staff

The school is part of the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools; you will have the opportunity to work with forward thinking school leadership and Federation teams, and access to a rich and varied CPD programme within the school and across the Federation. The Federation supports school leaders in obtaining the NPQSL and NPQH.

Visits to the school are welcome please contact Rose Wilson, PA to Headteacher to arrange via email rwilson.ps@lsfed.com or telephone 020 8690 3710 ext: 3002.

Closing Date: 9.30am on Monday 9 October 2023

Interviews: Friday 13 October 2023

Please note CVs are not accepted.

We are dedicated to creating a work environmentthatourcolleaguescan enjoy,ourstudents can benefit from, and where work complements life. For this reason, we encourage everyone to discuss with us their flexible working requirements during the recruitment process so that we can find the best working solution for them and their role.

The Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references qualifications, experience checks, medical clearance, enhanced DBS checks, social media checks and documentary evidence showing your entitlement to work in the UK.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all employees are required to have an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

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About Prendergast School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 958 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: hbegum.ps@lsfed.com
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/prendergast-school

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