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Deputy Headteacher

Oxford Gardens Primary School, London, W10 6NF

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  1 January 2025

• Closing date

  27 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £70,055 and £76,331
• Pay scale: L9 - L13

What skills and experience we're looking for

Oxford Gardens Primary School

Oxford Gardens Primary School, located on Oxford Gardens, W10 6NF, is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Deputy Headteacher to join our leadership team. This is a full-time role with a salary range of L9 - L13 dependent on experience (inner London).

About the role:

As a Deputy Headteacher at Oxford Gardens Primary School, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our school. You will work closely with the Headteacher to formulate the school’s aims and objectives, establish policies, manage staff and resources, and monitor progress. The role includes a 0.5 teaching requirement, allowing you to maintain a strong connection with classroom practice.

Main responsibilities:

• Formulate and implement school aims and objectives
• Establish policies to achieve these aims
• Manage staff and resources
• Monitor progress towards school goals
• Teach 0.5 timetable

Job Description: Deputy Headteacher

Job details

• Salary:L9 - L13 dependent on experience (inner London)
• Hours:Full-time
• Contract type:Permanent
• Reporting to:Headteacher
• Responsible for:Teaching staff and other designated staff

Main purpose

The Deputy Headteacher, under the direction of the Headteacher, will take a major role in:

• Formulating the aims and objectives of the school
• Establishing policies for achieving these aims and objectives
• Managing staff and resources to that end
• Monitoring progress towards the achievement of the school’s aims and objectives
• Teaching 0.5 timetable

If the Headteacher is absent, the Deputy Headteacher will deputise, as directed by the governing board.

The Deputy Headteacher will also be expected to fulfil the professional responsibilities of a headteacher, as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD).

Qualities

The Deputy Headteacher will:

• Uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct
• Build positive and respectful relationships across the school community
• Serve in the best interests of the school’s pupils

Duties and responsibilities

School culture and behaviour

Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher will:

• Create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life
• Uphold educational standards in order to prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life
• Ensure a culture of staff professionalism
• Encourage high standards of behaviour from pupils, built on rules and routines that are understood by staff and pupils and clearly demonstrated by all adults in school
• Use consistent and fair approaches to managing behaviour, in line with the school’s behaviour policy

Teaching, curriculum and assessment

Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher will:

• Establish and sustain high-quality teaching across all subjects and phases, based on evidence
• Ensure teaching is underpinned by subject expertise
• Effectively use formative assessment to inform strategy and decisions
• Ensure the teaching of a broad, structured and coherent curriculum
• Establish curriculum leadership, including subject leaders with relevant expertise and access to professional networks and communities
• Use valid, reliable and proportionate approaches to assessing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum
• Ensure the use of evidence-informed approaches to reading so that all pupils are taught to read

Additional and special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities

Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher will:

• Promote a culture and practices that enable all pupils to access the curriculum
• Have ambitious expectations for all pupils with SEN and disabilities
• Make sure the school works effectively with parents, carers and professionals to identify additional needs and provide support and adaptation where appropriate
• Make sure the school fulfils statutory duties regarding the SEND Code of Practice

Organisational management and school improvement

Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher will:

• Establish and sustain the school’s ethos and strategic direction together with the governing board and through consultation with the school community
• Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies so the school can operate effectively
• Ensure staff and pupils’ safety and welfare through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of duty of care
• Manage staff well with due attention to workload
• Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk
• Allocate financial resources appropriately, efficiently and effectively
• Identify problems and barriers to school effectiveness, and develop strategies for school improvement that are realistic, timely and suited to the school’s context
• Make sure these school improvement strategies are effectively implemented

Professional development

Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher will:

• Ensure staff have access to appropriate, high standard professional development opportunities
• Keep up to date with developments in education
• Seek training and continuing professional development to meet needs

Governance, accountability and working in partnership

Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher will:

• Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, including accepting responsibility
• Ensure that staff understand their professional responsibilities and are held to account
• Ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties
• Work successfully with other schools and organisations
• Maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues to improve educational outcomes for all pupils

Other areas of responsibility

Please note that this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the Deputy Headteacher will carry out. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications and training

• Qualified teacher status
• Degree

Experience

• 3 years experience of being a successful Senior Leader
• Teaching experience
• Involvement in school self-evaluation and development planning
• Demonstrable experience of successful line management and staff development

Skills and knowledge

• Data analysis skills, and the ability to use data to set targets and identify weaknesses
• Understanding of high-quality teaching, and the ability to model this for others and support others to improve
• Understanding of school finances and financial management
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate a vision and inspire others
• Ability to build effective working relationships

Personal qualities

• A commitment to getting the best outcomes for all pupils and promoting the ethos and values of the school
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritise effectively
• Commitment to maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Commitment to safeguarding and equality, ensuring that personal beliefs are not expressed in ways that exploit the position.

Notes:

This job description may be amended at any time in consultation with the postholder.

What the school offers its staff

What we offer:

• A collaborative and supportive working environment
• Opportunities for professional development and training
• A diverse and inclusive school community
• Commitment to staff wellbeing and workload management

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

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About Oxford Gardens Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 241 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Oxford Gardens Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: lauren.potter@oxfordgardens.rbkc.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oxford-gardens-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Oxford Gardens Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lauren.potter@oxfordgardens.rbkc.sch.uk.

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