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Deputy Headteacher

Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AH

This job expired on 24 February 2020 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2020

• Closing date

  24 February 2020 at 8am

• Date listed

  29 January 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Full time equivalent salary: £67,183 to £74,103
• Additional allowances:

  In return we can offer:

  • a competitive salary commensurate with experience and expertise ; • membership of the teachers’ pension scheme and other wellbeing ; benefits ; • eager and committed students who are keen to learn and progress ; • a creative and supportive team, who are driven to support and ; challenge our students ; • outstanding facilities ; • a learning-centred school where the best possible practice is the ; priority ; • a comprehensive CPD programme and opportunities to develop ; as a leader ; • a vibrant, supportive community of like-minded professionals

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Are you innovative, enthusiastic and passionate about education and would like to join the senior leadership team of a top performing school? Then this post might be the job for you.

This post provides a fantastic opportunity to work within a high-performing and growing 11 to 18 grammar school with a large sixth-form and exceptional students. With an intake of approximately 500 post-16 and 210 in next year’s Year 7, Heckmondwike Grammar School is a dynamic place to be. The post may suit colleagues currently in Deputy Headteacher posts looking for experience of working in a large school with an extensive sixth form, or colleagues looking for promotion from Assistant Headteacher level or those in senior middle management.

To work with the Headteacher, other members of the SLT and governors to ensure the highest standards in education for students. To lead by example in motivating staff and students to be the best that they can be in all that they do, by exhibiting the skills of a highly effective and emotionally intelligent leader and manager.
Below are the main generic responsibilities of the post holder. Specific tasks will be agreed with the successful candidate in line with their strengths and experience. These specific details will be centered around raising achievement initiatives.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding Statement:

Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.

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About Heckmondwike Grammar School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1522 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Heckmondwike Grammar School website
• Email address: recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heckmondwike-grammar-school-heckmondwike

 Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence. 


We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School of the Year”, in the North of England, for 2024 and 2025 in the Sunday Times Parent Power Guide. This is a measure of school performance for GCSE and A level outcomes. 


At GCSE our students typically exceed government set target grades by more than 1 grade in each subject and we are ranked second nationally for state coeducational schools. 


At A level, we rank in the top 20% of providers nationally for grades AAB or above and typically 3 times the national average of our students attend Oxbridge universities. 


We are very proud of our academic heritage. 


Misbehaviour is rare; and excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm: teachers are able to ‘get on and teach’. Working here is still challenging, however, but in different ways: expectations are high and potential applicants will need to be able to operate effectively in a top performing environment. However, one of the principal joys of working at this school is our eloquent and motivated students. Consequently, outcomes are amongst the very best in the country, and this is the result of able cohorts being provided with high quality teaching that is supported by strong pastoral care for each student. The school is justifiably proud of the focus on academic attainment and knowledge of each individual that enables education to be tailored to every student’s needs; but also prioritises the support it provides to enable any barriers to progress to be addressed. The focus is and will always remain teaching and learning in the classroom, with staff training and development being the main means of achieving this end. 


The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed, with well over 1500 students applying for entry into Year 7 each year, competing for one of 210 places. Post 16, we are similarly oversubscribed with around 800 applications for one of approximately 225 places in year 12.  The majority of our year 11 students continue into the sixth form and are joined by a number of similarly aspirant students from across the region. 


We work in partnership with an extensive group of schools, including the Northern Grammar School Alliance (NGSA), and have a significant reputation both locally and nationally. This means we offer our staff opportunities to be involved in professional development on a larger scale and see it as a sign of our high quality when members of our community are promoted to posts elsewhere, or progress internally. As a result, all staff feel very privileged to work here and to work with our young people. 


Further information about the school including main school and sixth form prospectus may be found on the school website at www.heckgrammar.co.uk 


 

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