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Deputy Headteacher

Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 4AY

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• Start date details

  September 2023

• Closing date

  20 March 2023 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 February 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher, deputy or assistant headteacher
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - The appointment is subject to the current conditions of employment of senior leaders, contained in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document, other current educational and employment legislation including that of the Department for Education, and the terms of the National Society contract.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Annual

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Qualified Teacher Status
• A good honours degree
• Evidence of recent and substantial CPD relevant to the post
• Successful completion of appropriate NPQ or other relevant qualification
• Organising and leading the professional development of staff

• Significant, successful leadership and management experience on a leadership team or as headof a large faculty

• A track record of outstanding teaching and learning
• A track record of raising levels of pupil attainment and rates of progress
• Curriculum design and management
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching and learning
• Effective allocation of resources
• Data analysis of pupil performance
• Excellent oral and communication skills, including public speakingLeading school worship to a high standard
• Teaching in more than one school
• Church schools
• Current educational trends and issues, particularly those related to the curriculum
• The principles and practice of effective teaching and learning
• Principles, strategies and practice of school improvement and self-evaluation
• The relationship between self-evaluation, performance management and continuing professional development
• The importance of working in partnership, offering, and accepting appropriate support from others, including colleagues, governors, and those in other schools
• Commitment to the implementation of the safeguarding and equal opportunities agenda

What the school offers its staff

We offer a genuinely broad and balanced curriculum to all year groups rooted in a strong and coherently expressed sense of educational purpose and intent. Pupils acquire the skills, concepts, knowledge and skills necessary to prepare them to take place their place as active and successful citizens of the 21st century.

At Key Stage 3, subjects are taught according to the National Curriculum guidelines anda wide range of learning styles are used to ensure that all pupils are engaged and ableto progress. We believe that pupils learn best when working collaboratively so pupils are taught in mixed ability classes for many subjects from the beginning of Year 7.

In Years 10 and 11, all pupils follow a core curriculum of English, mathematics, science, RE, PSHE and RE. In addition, pupils select courses from a wide range of GCSE options. Pupils are encouraged to study the EBacc suite of qualifications, with the most able following separate science courses.

Nearly thirty A-level courses are offered in the Sixth Form. Most students continue to study four subjects for most of the Lower Sixth and continue with three of these in the Upper Sixth. All sixth formers participate in our enrichment programme which takes place on Wednesday afternoons. A wide range of options are available including pre-professional work experience, sports academies, archery and dance. Most students progress to university with many making successful applications to Russell Group universities includingOxford and Cambridge.

The curriculum is based around five sixty-minute periods per day, organised as a two-week 48 lesson timetable.

Commitment to safeguarding

St Christopher’s CE High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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About Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1304 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: head@st-christophers.org
• Phone number: 01254 355214
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/accrington-st-christopher-s-church-of-england-high-school (opens in new tab)

St Christopher’s opened in 1958 and is an outstanding 11 - 18 Church of England Academy.Our caring community is based on a close partnership between staff, parents, pupils and governors and we foster strong links with local parishes and clergy, six of whom serve as School Chaplains. We emphasise pupils’ whole development, offering high standards of teaching in a range of courses to cater for all abilities, a wide extra-curriculum and making a priority of spiritual nurture, with religious worship and teaching at the centre of school life. We are an over-subscribed, flourishing and successful 11 – 18 Church of England Academy, an award-winning “Outstanding School” (SIAMS 2016). This year, 80% of Year 11 pupils gained at least 5 GCSE Grades 9-4 including English and mathematics, and 85% of A-level grades were awarded A*- C. The school of 1000 pupils, plus a Sixth Form of 300 pupils, is attractively and conveniently situated close to the Ribble Valley and has excellent motorway connections via M65 to M6 and M62.

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