Assistant Headteacher: Safeguarding and Wellbeing
Downlands Community School, Hassocks, West Sussex, BN6 8LP2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
29 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 March 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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L14 to L18
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate should:
- be committed to ensuring the safety and welfare of young people
- be a creative and strategic thinker who ensures that ‘learning is at the heart of everything we do’
- be able to improve existing practice in a drive for continual improvement
- be able to develop and inspire a highly committed and talented staff team
- have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be a real team player
- be committed to developing the school ethos and values and be an enthusiastic advocate for engagement with our community
What the school offers its staff
A rare opportunity is available for a talented teacher with a proven track record of success to become Assistant Headteacher (Safeguarding and Wellbeing) at Downlands.
The school is situated at the foot of the beautiful South Downs and is oversubscribed. It has a reputation for excellent academic results, extra-curricular activities and pastoral care.
Downlands is highly regarded and enjoys a prominent role in the local community.
We are committed to putting diversity, equity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do for everyone in our community. We strive to recruit, retain and advance people of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented in schools.
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 are 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.
Applying for the job
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About Downlands Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1225 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Downlands Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sjohnson@downlands.org
Downlands Community School is a thriving, 11-16, mixed, Local Authority, comprehensive school, set in a beautiful location at the foot of the South Downs and only 6 miles north of Brighton with an enviable reputation for success with pupils of all abilities and from all social backgrounds.
Downlands is a very inclusive school and we are proud of the pastoral support and guidance we are able to offer our young people.
Arranging a visit to Downlands Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sjohnson@downlands.org.
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