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  • Job start date

    1 September 2021

  • Closing date

    12 April 2021 at 8am

  • Date listed

    16 March 2021

Job details

Job role

  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

L9 - L10

Additional allowances

We can offer you:
Excellent CPD opportunities
A school currently rated Good by Ofsted where students’ behaviour is exemplary
A professional working environment where teamwork is highly valued
A partially selective school with a focus on academic achievement (Progress 8 in 2019 is +0.4 and in 2020 was +0.7)
Admission criteria where preference is given to staff’s children
A School which invests heavily in the future with £4m on recent school expansion and strong ongoing financial support from our Foundation and PTA
A School in a strong, stable financial position in this challenging climate, with a healthy lettings income
An outstanding wellbeing programme offering:
Flu jabs
Free access to our first-class Fitness Suite and swimming pool
Complimentary eye tests

Associate Assistant Headteacher/Head of STEM job summary

This is a Senior Leadership Team post to lead the Technology Department and also undertake whole-school operational and strategic responsibilities, principally related to the STEM agenda. This role represents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious middle leader to progress into a senior leadership role and has become vacant due to the School’s renewed focus on Technology provision. The School is currently investing £400,000 to resurrect and reinvigorate our technology provision, including the total renovation of the School’s Technology Block which will be transformed into the new Innovation and Design Centre ready for September 2021. As part of this investment, the School’s PTA are contributing over £30,000 towards the provision of Denford F1 equipment and the Rickmansworth School Foundation is purchasing additional machinery. The successful candidate will be able to have a significant input into the renovation project and have the opportunity to develop the School’s future STEM provision.

The successful candidate will:
Take the lead on a small number of whole school areas of responsibility, including the line management of a small number of departments
Lead the Technology department by providing a professional, positive, pro-active and creative approach
52,568Be an excellent teacher of Technology and model best practice for others in the team
Support the Senior Leadership Team in implementing whole school practice, policy and vision
Model excellent learning and teaching
Lead curriculum change across the School by successfully working with and across key STEM subject areas

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 Rickmansworth School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
1511 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01923 773296

Rickmansworth School is an 11-19 heavily oversubscribed co-educational partially (35%) selective converter academy with 1260 on roll, expanding to 1450 over the next five years. Judged 'Good' by Ofsted (November 2017). Staff development was recognised as an area of excellence by Challenge Partners (March 2018), with 3 staff achieving national finals in the last 2 years. Academic results are strong with a GCSE Progress 8 score of +0.67 (sig +ve).

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