Associate Assistant Headteacher – Head of Science and Engineering
The Billericay School, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9LH13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
13 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
26 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Points 7-11
Associate Assistant Headteacher – Head of Science and Engineering job summary
Principle Responsibilities
Teaching:
- To fulfil all the requirements and duties set out in the current Pay and Conditions Documents relating to the conditions of employment for teachers, as well as the relevant standards for teachers.
- To be an outstanding practitioner.
Strategic Direction and Development:
To provide professional leadership to subject teachers of Science and Engineering for KS3/4 and KS5.
To develop innovative teaching and learning in the Science department.
Be a member of the Extended Senior Leadership Team and participate fully in developing and communicating a clear and strategic vision of the development of the school.
Motivate and empower others to carry this vision forward.
Model the values and ethos of The Billericay School.
Support the Headteacher, Deputy and Assistant Headteachers in leading and managing the school effectively and in the review, implementation, development and monitoring of whole school policies that promote the school’s values, aims and objectives.
Contribute to management decisions on all aspects of policy, development and organisation by playing a significant role in school self-evaluation and in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the school’s improvement plan.
Attend ESLT meetings when required.
Plan, organise and chair meetings as appropriate.
Attend meetings of the Governing body as required.
Line Management Responsibilities:
Contribute to the raising of standards of attainment across the school, but specifically in the subject areas line managed.
Accountable for student progress in the subject areas line managed.
Ensure appropriate monitoring of teaching and learning in the subject areas line managed, developing the quality in accordance with school policies and procedures.
Implement school policies on behaviour and welfare.
To adhere to and to help to implement school quality procedures.
To contribute to the process of monitoring and evaluation of the faculty in line with school procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria. To implement modifications and improvement where required.
Be accountable for staff deployment and training in the areas line managed.
Specific Responsibilities:
Accountable for appropriate use of the capitation budgets assigned to each subject area line managed.
Supervise the use of the classrooms assigned to Humanities, including adherence to the relevant health and safety regulations.
Manage the work of the technical and administrative staff assigned to the subject areas line managed.
Coordinate and deliver intervention to key groups of students.
Attend all Parents’ Evenings, providing both support for teaching staff and a point of contact for parents seeking advice and guidance.
Attend key public events [school concerts & productions, Award Evenings, Open Evenings] as required, supporting SLT in the promotion of a positive school image to parents and the community.
General Duties:
To communicate effectively with colleagues/bodies outside of school and parents relative to the ESLT role.
Complete one ESLT lunchtime duty per week; providing senior staff oversight of an agreed area of the school.
Contribute to the delivery of assemblies [not more than once a year].
Contribute to the SLT Detention Rota as required.
Contribute to the SLT Bus Duty Rota as required.
To comply with the school’s procedures concerning safeguarding and to ensure that training is accessed.
To contribute to PSHE education according to school procedures.
The duties above are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the postholder may be required by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within the context of the job, skills and grade.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Billericay School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1697 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Billericay School website (opens in new tab)
The Billericay School is one of the largest schools in Essex with a roll of almost 1700 students, including 300 in the Sixth Form. The school site enjoys an enviable location; close to the town centre, yet situated in spacious grounds, the school is positioned on an elevated site with distant and sweeping views down towards the River Thames and beyond. In times past, a windmill stood nearby, a piece of local history still commemorated in the school badge.
Teaching takes place in five principal blocks.
The original structure, that dates from the school's foundation some sixty years ago includes an open air, furnished and planted quadrangle for lower school students to use during the summer months.
Other buildings include a modern Technology and Business Studies block, an Art, Food Technology and Textiles building and a Sixth Form Centre that provides a modern, attractive environment for our older students.
Other resources include a large assembly hall with television link, a drama studio, a music suite with recording studio, a media area with video editing suite and a large library/ resource based learning centre, which includes extensive ICT and study facilities as well as housing over 30,000 books.
The school's sporting facilities are exceptional, including a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium and fitness suite.
Our grounds include tennis and netball courts and football, rugby and cricket pitches. The school has recently achieved the national Sportsmark Award for its sporting excellence and work with the community.
The school also has a medical room, with the services of qualified staff throughout the school day.
It is also worthy of note that many of our staff have chosen to send their own children to the school. What greater sign of confidence could there be!
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