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  • Job start date

    1 January 2020

  • Closing date

    25 November 2019 at 5pm

  • Date listed

    12 November 2019

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

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Working pattern

Full-time equivalent salary

£19,300 to £25,900 per year (full-time equivalent)

Deputy Head of House (Part Time) job summary

Job Title: Deputy Head of House
Reports to: Assistant Headteacher
Hours: Part Time (12.45pm to 4.30pm)
Salary: Based on Experience including a £2,000 Reach Point payment (Pro rata) (Term Time only)

Overall responsibilities

This multifaceted role provides both pastoral and academic support to pupils across a range of abilities and backgrounds. You will support pupils, parents, teachers and senior leaders to establish a supportive and nurturing learning environment in which children make rapid academic progress, make positive contributions to the school community and enjoy their learning.

Main duties

The role of Deputy Head of House has three main roles:

1. To provide administrative and pastoral support to the Head of House on a daily basis. This will involve communicating with pupils and their parents, guardians and carers, as well as staff and external agencies.

2. To provide classroom support for pupils who are eligible for Pupil Premium funding, as identified by the Pupil Support Coordinator.

3. To provide classroom support for pupils who have special educational needs, as identified by the Special Educational Needs Coordinator.

Administrative and Pastoral Support:

- Establish good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and being aware of and responding appropriately to individual needs
Liaise with pupils and their parents, guardians and carers to maximise wellbeing and achievement.

- Secure high standards of behaviour in line with the School’s Code of Conduct and Behaviour Policy.

- Assist the Head of House with behaviour management for all pupils in line with school’s policies and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour and learning.

- Create a purposeful, happy, secure and stimulating learning environment for pupils in their house.

- Monitor and manage the attendance and punctuality of pupils in their House, to school and to lessons.

- Maintain pupil and family confidentiality, be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to Child Protection, Health & Safety, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

- Becoming a Deputy Designated Senior Person for pupils within the House.

- Contribute to ensuring classroom and corridor displays of the House achievements are current and in excellent repair.

- Attend regular meetings and training as required.

- Supervise pupils in line with the supervision duty rotas.

Classroom Based Support for PPG and SEN:

- Liaise with staff about interventions and strategies needed for named pupils.

- Supervise and provide support for named pupils ensuring they have access to learning.

- Assess and evaluate both the pupils’ learning and the effectiveness of the provision for named pupils.

- Work with teachers to assess the needs of individual pupils.

- Observe, record and feedback information on pupils’ achievements, progress and difficulties to teachers and the Head of House.

- Assist in the design, implementation and review of Individual Education Plans for specific pupils.

- Support, both as directed and through own initiative, groups of, or individual, pupils.

- Prepare and maintain equipment/resources for use by pupils as directed by the teacher and assist the pupils in their use.

- Use ICT to enhance the quality and variety of teaching and to support pupils in utilising this key tool in their own learning.

- Encourage pupils to become independent learners and promote self-esteem.

- Encourage pupils to engage in activities led by the teacher, giving pupils ownership of the task.

- Promote inclusion and acceptance of all pupils.

- Have a sympathetic understanding of every child’s needs in their remit.

Wider Responsibilities

- All staff should share their talents, skills, ideas and enthusiasm for the benefit of the whole school and should be ready to accept responsibilities that extend beyond the classroom.

- Run extra-curricular activities and participate in trips and visits.

- Attend to personal professional development and ensure keeping abreast of national, local and school initiatives and best practice.

- Partake in activities aimed at promoting the school, including, but not limited to, open evenings, visits to primary schools and community events.

- Carry out other tasks commensurate with their position, as directed by the Senior Leadership Team.

Job context

The Reach Free School welcomes individuals of a high professional standard and shares the responsibility with each member of staff for continual review and the development of expertise.

All members of staff make a valuable contribution to the school’s development and, therefore, to the progress of all pupils. Deputy Heads of House have a responsibility for the pastoral wellbeing and achievements of all pupils in their remit and are supported in that role by their line manager.

The Academy Trust will endeavour to make any necessary, reasonable adjustments to the job and working environment, to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled applicants, or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.

Review of duties

The specific duties attached to any individual member of staff are subject to annual review and may, after discussion with the employee, be changed.

Salary

The starting salary for a Deputy Head of House is dependent on experience and includes an additional £2,000 Reach Point payment (pro rata). The position is based on daily working hours of 12.45pm until 4.30pm, working 39 teaching weeks of the year.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Reach Free School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expects all staff to share this commitment. In accordance with our Safer Recruitment Policy we are unable to process applications without a fully completed application form. The successful applicant must obtain DBS clearance at enhanced level. The school will also carry out a prohibition from teaching check, as well as in-depth online checks. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of your employment.

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About The Reach Free School

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
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School size
734 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

The Reach Free School is an 11 to 18 school in Rickmansworth, which serves pupils of all backgrounds and abilities. Opened in September 2013, the school was founded by a group of teachers and local parents in response to a significant demand for more secondary school places in the area.

All involved with the school have high aspirations for our pupils and high expectations of them. As such we expect all pupils to: commit their best efforts to all that they do; support each other to achieve their potential; work with their teachers to exceed their goals; demonstrate exemplary behaviour in all that they do; take pride in their school and its community within its walls and beyond; enjoy learning.

The Reach Free School plays an active role in the community, working with local businesses, supporting local events and providing a hub for local services. Pupils are very much involved in the school’s wider responsibilities, developing skills in leadership and decision making, communication and collaboration and independent, self led learning.

A sense of purpose and responsibility pervades lessons and activities at The Reach Free School and it is important that our pupils recognise their own responsibilities as members of the community. It is this that underpins The Reach Free School’s ethos; Achievement, Community, Enjoyment – ACE.

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