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Job start date
17 April 2023
Closing date
1 February 2023 at 9am
Date listed
20 January 2023
Job details
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- View all Full timejobs - A full-time leadership position
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership L12 - 16 (£58104 - £64225)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning is a significant senior leadership position. You will have excellent leadership qualities, creativity and energy and will work alongside the existing senior leadership team and Wessex School Improvement Team to make continued, sustainable improvements.
The core purpose of the role is to maximise the provision of strong leadership for raising standards of Teaching and Learning in the Academy.
- Promoting the highest standards of Teaching and Learning in order to ensure the very best academic achievements in the Academy, and to create a positive atmosphere conducive to learning
- Developing, leading, and managing effective strategies to further improve standards of Teaching and Learning
- Coordinating Upper and Middle School liaison to support the progression of learning between all key stages
- Lead the professional development of student facing staff and middle leaders
- Ensuring robust induction systems are in place to support ECTs, ITT and new teaching staff
- Line manage designated curriculum and pastoral areas
- To carry out professional duties in accordance with the Academy Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document
- You will be responsible for the strategic leadership of teaching and learning to ensure continued improvement, and for interpreting and articulating its vision.
- Contribute to the strategic development and planning of whole school improvement.
- As a member of the Senior Leadership Team you will be responsible for the strategic development of Teaching and Learning across the whole school (Key Stage 3, 4 and 5), in conjunction with the Wessex Learning Trust policy, ensuring all teaching staff deliver stimulating and inspiring education.
What the school offers its staff
Kings Academy is a fabulous school. We have great students and fabulous staff. We are a happy school that likes to laugh but also one that is serious about delivering for our young people. Our motto is ‘Believe and Succeed’. We must believe in ourselves, have self-esteem, have a can-do culture and be solution-driven. This leads to our success, for our students and our staff.
The Academy has been on a journey and the following changes have been made:
- Introduction of extended tutor time on Fridays
- Introduction of focus days to extend the wider curriculum opportunities
- Re-shaping of business and administrative roles
- Creation of business and administrative support teams
- Development of a faculty system for subjects
- Embedding the house system as the structure for the pastoral system
- Creation of a welfare and intervention team
- Creation of a staff welfare group
- Re-designing student feedback systems
- Introducing new, bespoke behaviour systems
- Promote leadership and empowerment for all staff
What the Academy now needs to do is to embed these changes, to focus on ‘World Class Basics’ and keep ‘Believing and Succeeding’.
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About The Kings of Wessex Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 938 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Kings of Wessex Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@kowessex.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01934 742608
Arranging a visit to The Kings of Wessex Academy
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