Assistant Headteacher (Sixth Form)

St Bernard's High School, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 7JS

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  7 May 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subjects: Computing, Mathematics, Psychology, Religious education
• Working pattern: Full time: 8.30am-3.40pm plus directed time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: LS 11-15 - £60,488-£66,628

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you able to lead others and have the skills, confidence, creativity and energy to make a positive impact on the lives of our students and staff?

We are excited to be able to offer a new post of Assistant Headteacher at our school who will head up our Sixth Form. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with middle or senior leadership experience ready to take on a new role.

We are looking for an exceptional and inspirational leader to work alongside the Headteacher and the Senior Leadership Team. The ability to teach one of the following subjects would be desirable but not essential: Mathematics, I.T./Computing, Psychology or Religious Studies.

You will be committed to maintaining and improving our high quality education provision and ensure all groups of students make progress and are appropriately challenged, and supported, to achieve their very best.

What the school offers its staff

St Bernard's High School is a vibrant Catholic girls’ school from Years 7-11 with a co-educational Sixth Form. Our school is ranked one of the top schools in Southend, and we are in the top 20% of schools across the country for our progress with students and our outcomes. We offer our students an environment where they can excel academically, personally and spiritually. It is a warm and welcoming school where our Catholic values underpin our day-to-day life.

All new staff are supported within the positive ethos of this happy and high performing school, and to this end all staff complete an applicable induction training programme. The community at St Bernard’s welcome applications from teachers of all faiths or none.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment.

Applying for the job

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@stbernards.southend.sch.uk

Visas cannot be sponsored.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

AHT - Sixth Form - April 2024.docx - 452 KB (opens in new tab)

Person Specification - AHT - April 2024.docx - 111 KB (opens in new tab)

About St Bernard's High School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 967 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St Bernard's High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@stbernards.southend.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01702 343583
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-bernard-s-high-school (opens in new tab)

St Bernard's High School is a bi-grammar girls school from Years 7-11 with a mixed Sixth Form. Our school is ranked one of the top schools in Southend, and we are in the top 20% of schools across the country for our progress with students and our outcomes. We offer our students an environment where they can excel academically, personally and spiritually. It is a warm and welcoming school where our Catholic values underpin our day to day life.

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