Assistant Headteacher
Woodeaton Manor School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9TS4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L7 - L11 £57,831 - £63,815
What skills and experience we're looking for
Woodeaton Manor School is a Foundation Special School located four miles to the Northeast the city of Oxford. The school serves young people aged 7 to 18 with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH) and where many also have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Job Overview:
With support from the Headteacher and the IEB, the Assistant Headteacher will be an outstanding senior leader who is passionate about securing the best possible outcomes for pupils and who is willing to embrace our mission of a learning community.
The Assistant Headteacher will not only be ambitious for the pupils, but also for themselves. They will need a strong track record of working within specialist schools along with excellent leadership skills together with the drive and enthusiasm to help develop, build achievements, and support the vision and ethos of the school.
They will need experience in improving teaching and learning, curriculum development and effective use of pupils’ data to raise achievement levels.
Main Purpose:
The Assistant Headteacher will support the Headteacher to create a culture of constant improvement through inspirational leadership, being committed to the highest achievement for all areas of the school, to provide an outstanding education for all students.
Utilising their excellent leadership skills, the Assistant Headteacher will support the Headteacher to manage the day-to-day operations of the school and have a strong track record of working within specialist schools, ensuring the highest quality of pastoral care and supporting all staff in the delivery of this. This requires a hands-on approach.
The duties outlined, in line with Headteacher and Teacher Standards, are in addition to the ones stated in the latest School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document that the post holder will automatically be required to meet. You may also be required to undertake professional duties delegated by the Headteacher.
Key Responsibilities:
- Communicate the school’s vision compellingly and drive strategic leadership, empowering all pupils and staff to excel
- Provide professional leadership, ensuring that pupils are provided with a world-class education, receive the best possible care and achieve high standards in all areas of learning
- As directed by the Headteacher, work collaboratively with other schools and organisations to champion best practices and secure excellent achievements for all pupils
- Review the quality of teaching and learning across the school and conduct monitoring activities in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team
- Monitor and review the effectiveness of the schools of the school curriculum and support TLR leads and subject leads in curriculum development
- Lead and manage a range of identified staff and staff groups, developing a framework of mentoring, coaching and peer support
- Develop effective relationships with the therapy team and colleagues in other public services to improve academic and social outcomes for all pupils
Leadership and Managing staff:
The Assistant Headteacher will support the Headteacher to work with the IEB to develop the strategic view of the school and analyse and plan for its future needs and future developments.
The post holder will:
- Support development of the schools, organization and processes, so they are well considered, efficient and fit for purpose, upholding the principles of transparency and integrity
- Monitor, evaluate and review the effectiveness of the school policies and procedures
- Be responsible for the effective use and monitoring of budgets as directed by the Headteacher
- Actively support the IEB by liaising and reporting to them on specific areas
- Demonstrate optimistic personal behaviour, positive relationships and attitude towards their pupils, staff, parents, governors, and local community members
- Lead by example – with integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity – drawing on own scholarship, expertise, and skills and those around them
- Sustain wide, current knowledge and understanding of education and school systems, locally, nationally, and globally, and pursue continuous professional development
- Work with political and financial astuteness within clear principles centered on the school’s context
- Liaise with parents and key professionals as part of a multi-disciplinary team working to support pupil outcomes
- Undertake in the absence of the Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher and to the extent required by the IEB, the professional duties of the Headteacher, including the deployment of staff to ensure their effective contribution to pupil learning
Teaching and Learning:
- Demand ambitious standards for all pupils, overcoming disadvantages and advancing equality, instilling a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on pupils’ outcomes
- Secure excellent teaching through an analytical understanding of pupils’ learning and the core features of successful classroom practice and curriculum design. This leads to rich curriculum opportunities and pupils’ well-being
- Establish an educational culture of ‘open classrooms’ to share best practices within and between schools, drawing on and conducting relevant research and robust data analysis
Strategic Direction:
- Contribute to the whole school improvement plan and school evaluation procedures and lead on identified areas of the school improvement
- Contribute to strategic decision-making as part of the school’s senior leadership team
- Plan and manage change in accordance with the School Improvement Priorities
Staff and Resources:
- Create an ethos within all staff are motivated and supported to develop their skills and subject knowledge and support each other
- Identify emerging talents, coaching current and aspiring leaders in a climate where excellence is the standard, leading to clear succession planning
- Inspire and influence others – within and beyond school
- Hold all staff to account for their professional conduct and practice
- Manage the performance of identified staff, address any underperformance, support staff to improve, and value excellent practice
- Exercise strategies and curriculum-led financial planning to ensure the equitable deployment of allocated budgets and resources in the best interests of pupils’ achievements and the school’s sustainability
- Support distribution of leadership throughout the organization, forging teams of colleagues with distinct roles and responsibilities and holding each other accountable for their decision-making
- Support and promote high-quality training and sustained professional development for all staff
- Support the Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team in the recruitment, development and deployment of staff. Make effective use of staff skills, abilities, and training
Safeguarding:
- As a DDSL, be an active and supportive member of Safeguarding Team
- Provide a safe, clam, and well-ordered environment for all pupils and staff, focused on safeguarding pupils and developing their exemplary behaviour in school and in the wider society
- Ensure the welfare and safeguarding of pupils across the whole school through rigorous application of the school child protection, behaviour management and pupil welfare policies
- Support safeguarding across the school as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Contribute to the safety and welfare of our pupils, staff and parents, staff and parents and work collaboratively with other agencies to protect children and share information where appropriate
Other Duties:
- Promote equal opportunities throughout the school and ensure the application of the school equal opportunities policy
- Promote an ethos of inclusion and opportunity for all
- The Post holder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description. The duties and responsibilities attached to posts may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and would not themselves justify the re-evaluation of a post
- The Headteacher, and IEB retain the right to implement changes to this job description to reflect changes in the demands of the post and this will be done in consultation with the post holder
What the school offers its staff
- A commitment to support you in developing new skills through a wide range of professional development opportunities and experiences
- The opportunity to make a huge contribution to the education and lives of children who
respond very positively to high quality teaching
- A dedicated leadership team committed to supporting our staff
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 may be 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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Woodeaton Manor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 18
- School size
- Up to 84 pupils
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Woodeaton Manor School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01865558722
Welcome to Woodeaton Manor School. We are a daytime and residential Foundation Special School that offers a nurturing environment for 84 pupils. All our pupils have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and they have social, emotional and mental health difficulties. We are able to offer places for pupils in Key Stages 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Woodeaton Manor caters for a wide range of special educational needs, including the following diagnosed or described conditions:
Attachment Difficulty
Autistic Spectrum Disorder, including Asperger’s Syndrome
Dyspraxia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Specific Learning Difficulties, i.e. Dyslexia
Speech and Language Disorder
Tourettes Syndrome
A large proportion of pupils have mental health issues and require extended support from a range of multi-professional services.
Woodeaton has extended its age limits twice since its re-designation. In 2009 Woodeaton established its Sixth Form provision and in June 2012, Woodeaton lowered the age limit to admit six Key Stage 2 age pupils who are taught in ‘The Nest’. Woodeaton also became a Foundation School on 1st April 2008.
Our school at a glance:
Woodeaton Manor School is the first school in Oxfordshire to be awarded the Quality Care Mark for Looked After Children (LAC) at an Outstanding level (January 2017). This mark demonstrates our school has excellent practice around those children in care and those caring for others.
Have a highly experienced and qualified staffing team
Provide high quality teaching and social experiences
Focus on personalised and individual needs of pupils
Work in a multi-professional way
Maximum class size of ten
High levels of staff support
In-house Educational Psychologist
A Readiness for Learning team who support pupils through interventions and/or outreach work. The team will also support pupils who might be struggling during the school day
Regular visits from an Occupational Therapist and a Speech and Language Therapist (one day a week and one day a fortnight respectively)
Provision of play therapy, if required
Regular whole school trips and residential experiences both in the UK and abroad
Specialist rooms for Art (including a kiln room), Food Technology, ICT and Science
Self-contained residential area for boys and girls
Excellent catering arrangements
Our school day starts at 8.20 a.m. every weekday and finishes at 2.30 p.m. every afternoon.
The total time in school for each pupil is 30 hours and 50 minutes.
Arranging a visit to Woodeaton Manor School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk.
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