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Assistant Headteacher with primary responsibility

Furzedown Primary School, London, SW17 9TJ

This job expired on 24 April 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  Required September 2024

• Closing date

  24 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  25 March 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leadership Scale 3-7

What skills and experience we're looking for

If you have a proven track record of engaging and inspiring both pupils and colleagues alike and are interested in joining an agile and innovative school community then we would welcome an application from you.

Visits are strongly recommended!

We are seeking to appoint an exceptional and inspiring Assistant Headteacher.

We can offer:

• A passionate, skilled and focused leadership team who work together to drive school improvement
• A dedicated, hardworking, knowledgeable and committed staff team
• Excellent career advancement continuing professional development opportunities
• Happy, confident, polite and engaged children with a great enthusiasm for learning
• Supportive parents and governors committed to our school ethos

You will have experience of:

• Setting and demonstrating high expectations
• Being an outstanding practitioner who is an influencer
• High quality relationships with staff, pupils and parents
• Establishing and sustaining high-quality teaching across subjects and phases
• Working effectively with stakeholders and external professionals
• Developing and implementing school improvement strategies
• Making a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of a school.

What the school offers its staff

We believe in the intrinsic worth of every individual and that there is nothing the children and adults in our community cannot achieve. We are committed to:

• Happiness with the state of well-being and contentment underpinning all we do

• Inclusion and promoting equity leading to equality of opportunity across all areas of school life including our curriculum and in all of our policies and practice.
• Behaving respectfully with everyone we meet;
• Having ambition and communicating our high expectations clearly to each other
• Being creative and reflective impacting on our ability to be open-minded and to problem-solve;

Working together as a community and to help everyone achieve their best

Further details about the role

An information pack, including a Job Description and Person Specification can be downloaded below or from the Wandsworth Council website https://jobs.richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk/

Completed applications are to be returned to recruitment@furzedown.wandsworth.sch.uk

Application Closing Date: 24 April 2024 (at noon)

Interview Date: Week beginning 29 April 2024

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Please note that we do not accept CVs

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About Furzedown Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 353 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Furzedown Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@furzedown.wandsworth.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/furzedown-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Furzedown Primary School and Nursery is situated in Tooting, South West London in the borough of Wandsworth. We are a two form entry primary school catering for a diverse group of children from a varied and rich background.

We provide a safe secure setting that aims to educate the whole child.

Arranging a visit to Furzedown Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@furzedown.wandsworth.sch.uk.

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