Assistant Headteacher (The Quality of Education)
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 9HZThis job expired on 17 May 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
17 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
3 May 2024
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L12-16
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an outstanding teacher and leader looking to develop your experience and professional career? We have an exciting opportunity for you to do this at Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School – a leading school in the city of Liverpool.
The Governors are seeking to appoint a person with vision, drive and a proven record of successful teaching and learning, curriculum development, quality assurance and leading change to be part of the Senior Leadership Team as an Assistant Headteacher.
The precise responsibilities will be agreed upon appointment but the successful postholder will be expected to:
- Ensure that the school is inclusive and that all students have the opportunity to reach the highest possible standards through the delivery of high-quality teaching and learning.
- Ensure that an appropriate curriculum is planned and delivered to each student, to allow them to achieve their full potential.
- Lead high quality and evidence based CPD for all staff.
- Lead and evaluate quality assurance and monitoring processes.
- Provide leadership and line management to middle leadership.
- Work with the Governing Body and other stakeholders to ensure the school’s vision is clearly articulated, shared, understood and translated into real and effective action by all.
We are looking for:
An enthusiastic and passionate individual who can provide first class leadership.
What the school offers its staff
As a school, we are immensely proud of our September 2021 Ofsted report which describes our school as ‘Good’ with many ‘Outstanding’ features. “Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a learning community where pupils have great respect for each other. Teachers support pupils to become highly articulate young people who can express their views well on a wide range of issues.” Furthermore, “Pupils benefit from studying a wide range of subjects. Leaders have put in place an ambitious curriculum. Leaders and teachers have high expectations of all pupils. Similarly, our November 2023 CSI report states how “Students, staff and parents speak very highly of the ‘sense of family’ that is inherent in this school.”
We offer you:
- A vibrant school with outstanding facilities.
- An environment where students have an excellent attitude to learning where they can grow academically and personally. Students’ behaviour and safety was judged by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’.
- An outward facing, forward thinking and collaborative Senior Leadership Team.
- Students who, through the wide and diverse academic and extra-curricular opportunities they are offered, grow as individuals and happily contribute to the school community.
- Regular opportunities for staff development through national recognised qualifications and a culture of collaboration and the dissemination of best practice.
Further details about the role
How to apply:
This role is full time and permanent. If this advert incorporates your strengths and interests and you wish to be part of our extremely successful and constantly evolving school, then please see the job description, person specification, application form, child protection policy, code of conduct – Safer working practice guidance,Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 form, consent to obtain reference form, Disqualification Policy, model reasonable adjustments statement is available on the school website www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk
Email application forms and covering letters to Lynn Lewington (l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk) by midday, Friday 17th May 2024. Interviews will commence week beginning 20th May 2024.
Applicants from overseas outside the EEA should obtain an overseas criminal check before applying for a visit as the post is in an education sector.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS and Barred-List checks. This post is exempt from the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.
The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare. This post is subject to all the relevant pre-employment checks set out in “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, including an enhanced DBS certificate with a barred-list check, together with an additional check as part of the shortlisting process, will be to carry out an online search (including social media).
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About Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1360 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@cardinal-heenan.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 235 1430
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a thriving and vibrant Specialist Sports College and a leading school in the local area.
Arranging a visit to Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@cardinal-heenan.org.uk.
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