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  • Job start date

    1 September 2022

  • Closing date

    5 June 2022 at 5pm

  • Date listed

    17 May 2022

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher

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Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Leadership Range L10 - L14

Assistant Principal job summary

Are you an outstanding, inspirational leader and manager? A team player with passion, energy, experience and extensive knowledge of SEN pupils, safeguarding and curriculum development?

Meadowfield School is seeking to appoint an inspirational and enthusiastic Assistant Principal to join our Leadership Team.

Our departments consist of Early Years, Extended IMPACTS (for pupils with complex autism) IMPACTS (for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties) Subject led (for our pupils who can access more formal learning opportunities) and 6th Form. Our Assistant Principals work in collaborative pairs to lead our departments. The successful candidate will join an existing Assistant Principal and take a strategic role in leading and managing a phase of Meadowfield school, whilst exemplifying our school values. The specific department the successful candidate will lead will depend on their skills and experience and the collective responsibilities of the whole Assistant Principal team will be reviewed to accommodate the right candidate.

The successful candidate will join our highly skilled Leadership Team, working alongside our Governors to make a difference to our pupils with profound, severe and complex needs. Experience of working in a special needs setting and teaching pupils with ASD as well as learning difficulties is essential.

Now is an exciting time to join our Outstanding school as we expand in order to better meet the demand for special school places in Swale. We are incredibly proud of our recent Ofsted inspection (see the report on our profile page). Ofsted recognise that relationships between our staff and pupils are exceptionally positive, and we are delighted that our pupils told inspectors they are very happy at the school and really enjoy their lessons.

We encourage all of our employees to further their career development and we respect initiative and ambition. We are committed to performance management, staff training, coaching, mentoring and peer support.

At Meadowfield we work hard to ensure that all of our pupils make excellent progress, and we continually seek to improve the wellbeing of both pupils and staff.

If you are appointed to an Assistant Principal role, we guarantee that you will be well supported. You will also benefit from the collective support of a highly experienced network of colleagues across the Kent Special Educational Needs Trust (KSENT).

Further information about the responsibilities of the role can be found in the attached job description.

Meadowfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. This post is subject to references, a medical check and an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please apply online via www.kent-teach.com, by clicking the 'Apply' button at the top or the bottom of the page. C.V.s will not be considered.

Due to the conditions and complex needs of the pupils at Meadowfield School, continuity and consistency of support is paramount and therefore candidates for all positions will need to commit to the full working hours of the post. It is school policy that close family members of current pupils will not be interviewed, to prevent conflicts of interest.

Visits to the school are encouraged. To arrange an appointment or for more information, please contact our HR Team via email at hr@meadowfield.kent.sch.uk or phone 01795 477788 (option 5).

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.

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About Meadowfield School

School type
Special school, ages 4 to 19
School size
410 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 19
Phone number
01795 477788

Meadowfield School is an outstanding special school located in Sittingbourne. To find out more about the School environment and ethos, please take a look at our website, including the Working Here pages, where you can find more information, including school videos.

Our school values are very important to us as a whole school community. These are:- Teamwork, Kindness, Honesty, Respect and Understanding.

We serve pupils with profound, severe and complex needs, including autism. The school is comprised of: - Early Years - which includes our Observation and Assessment Nursery called Honey Bees and Reception classes, - IMPACTS classes - for pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties, - Extended IMPACTS classes - for pupils who benefit from a more individual-led curriculum, - Subject Led classes - for pupils who benefit from a more academic curriculum - 6th Form - preparing pupils for their next steps

We currently serve pupils from the ages of three to nineteen, and pupil numbers are set to increase rapidly over the next year and beyond as we add more classes.

If you cannot see any vacancies that you wish to apply for right now, do go to the School Vacancies tab on the school profile page and click 'Register my Interest' to receive emails whenever we post new jobs.

The Meadowfield Inclusion Development and Support (MIDAS) Centre is our highly regarded inclusion and outreach service which successfully supports over 60 schools and 70 settings across Swale, increasing capacity to meet the needs of pupils with additional needs.

Across the school we have approximately 270 members of staff ranging from class based support staff, teachers, the Inclusion Team, Office and Admin Staff, Site Staff, ICT Department as well as our Leadership and Management Team.

Arranging a visit to Meadowfield School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@meadowfield.kent.sch.uk.

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