Deputy Headteacher -Quality of Education
Budehaven Community School, Bude, Cornwall, EX23 8DQThis job expired on 22 April 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
22 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 1.00FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership 19 to 23
What skills and experience we're looking for
Training and Qualifications
- Qualified teacher status
- Honours degree or equivalent
- Professional
Awards towards leadership (e.g. NPQH)
- Higher Degree
- Recent participation in a range of relevant in-service training in the area of Quality of Education
Leadership Experience
- Successful recent experience of senior whole school leadership at least at Assistant Headteacher level or equivalent, with proven track record of impact on outcomes, and leadership of Quality of Education initiatives.
- A Proven track record of leadership, demonstrating positive outcomes at Key Stage 4 for all pupils, particularly Disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, demonstrating school-wide outcomes that are at least in-line with National Average.
- Effective engagement with learners and others in the local community, including parents, carers, employers and local services.
- Experience
of developing whole school strategies to improve outcomes for all, including disadvantaged
pupils and those with SEND.
- Proven
track record of leadership of assessment for learning, and the use of performance
data to lead school
improvement with positive outcomes.
- Experience of defining and implementing sound
principles and practices of performance management for all staff, with positive
outcomes for young people.
- Evidence of improving outcomes through collaboration with other schools/academies and school improvement agencies.
Recent participation in a range of relevant in-service training in the area of Quality of Education
Professional Skills and
Qualities
- Have
a clear and ambitious vision for providing high-quality, inclusive education
for all, with a working knowledge and understanding of the principles of the
SEND code of practice
- Set high standards and expectations and inspire others to achieve them
- Experience of raising achievement through improving teaching and learning strategies that are inclusive for all
- Experience of designing and implementing an ambitious and inclusive curriculum (academic, creative and/or vocational)
- Committed to giving all learners the knowledge and cultural capital needed to go on to destinations that meet their interests and aspirations
- Experience of creating an environment that allows learners to develop their character, including their resilience, confidence and good mental and physical health
- Have high expectations for learners’ behaviour, conduct and attendance, and model this to all staff
- Maintain relationships among learners and staff to reflect a positive and respectful culture
- Build positive relationships with staff and is committed to their professional development and well being, whilst challenging inaction and underperformance
- Able to work with Governors to translate vision into agreed objectives, measures, operational plans and policies
- Uphold a strong culture of safeguarding where members of the school community feel safe and do not tolerate bullying or discrimination
- Ability to raise standards through motivating supporting and challenging colleagues.
Professional Knowledge
- A working knowledge and understanding of the Education Endowment Foundation’s meta-research, and the recommendations for improving the Quality of Education.
- A working understanding of “Walkthrus” as a
methodology for developing excellent teaching and learning practice.
- Leadership-level understanding of Keeping Children Safe in Education, and the impact of the wider-world on children and young people’s lives and academic progress.
- Knowledge of Human Resources practice and recruitment relating to effective school management.
- Knowledge of national policies, priorities and statutory frameworks, with a particularly deep understanding of the Ofsted Inspection Framework.
- Knowledge of and commitment equality and diversity for all.
- Knowledge of current issues and research in education locally, nationally and internationally where appropriate.
Personal Qualities
- Passionate about education
including the development of the ‘whole child’ with a philosophy for
education based upon care and enjoyment of learning.
- Humility, especially following setbacks, with proactive attitude to moving forward.
- Ability to communicate a vision confidently, clearly and passionately to lead and inspire others, especially with regard Quality of Education.
- Reflective, resilient and decisive, with a no-excuses attitude to school improvement.
- Able to reach and justify difficult decisions.
- Able to challenge and motivate underachievers.
- Able to work under pressure.
- Able to build trust and confidence in self and others.
- Able to write reports articulately, and with clarity.
What the school offers its staff
See Applicant Information pack
Commitment to safeguarding
At Budehaven we are committed to safeguarding; the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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About Budehaven Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1161 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Budehaven Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- clare.brown@budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01288 353271
Budehaven Community School is located on the beautiful north Cornwall coast in the town of Bude. We are proud to be a fully comprehensive school, welcoming and providing an inclusive education to students from ages 11 to 19. Our school also benefits from a thriving, successful Sixth Form, an on-site Area Resource Base and The Haven – our integrated Health and Wellbeing Centre, providing wider support for our students and members of the community.
Budehaven Community School is a thriving environment to be part of, and our ethos, which is built on a foundation of Care, Enjoyment and Opportunities, building Responsibility, Confidence and Success, is tangible from the second you walk through the door. As you travel around our school, the energy of the students and staff is infectious. The stunning work of our talented young people is on display around the school, and their artwork is one of our jewels in the Budehaven crown within our stylish Bistro Art Gallery, aside that of local artists for all to appreciate. We have an annual art exhibition, where members of the community come and admire the work of our young people.
Arranging a visit to Budehaven Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email clare.brown@budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk.
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