Deputy Headteacher

River Tees Hospital School, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RD

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Deputy headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £50,807-£54,816 per year
• Additional allowances:

  Special Educational Needs (SEN)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential Criteria

• QTS/QTLS Status
• Degree or Equivalent
• Level 2 or equivalent in English and Maths

• Relevant knowledge in subject, national policy, pedagogy, classroom management strategies, inspection findings and statutory requirements

  Thorough understanding of curriculum development, timetabling and managing schoolresources to deliver an effective provision

  Proven ability to effectively keep well-informed of academic and research thinking on how disaffected children can become successful learners

  Experience of contributing to effective school self-evaluation and development plans

  Evidence of successful leadership and delivery of teaching and learning

  Experience of collecting, analysis and questioning performance data for the purposes of target setting, progress review and evaluation

  Experience of monitoring and improving the quality of teaching and learning efficiently productively

• Proven ability to deliver priorities agreed by the MAT

  High numeracy skills to interpret statistical data, manage budgets and produce effective data analysis

  A high level of understanding of, and competent use of, ICT to aid and promote the quality of teaching, learning and administration

  Excellent organisation and time-keeping skills

  Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills

  Proven ability to monitor and evaluate the work of others; to offer support and intervention where necessary

  Proven ability to inspire, challenge, motivate and empower teams andindividuals to achieve high performance

  Proven ability to lead an organisation successfully through a period of change

  Ability to build a strong ethos in the school

  Ability to work with parents to secure a good learning attitude and environment for students

  Ability to critically evaluate current research, selecting best evidence-based practice to improve student outcomes

  Demonstrate personal enthusiasm and commitment to leadership aimed at making a positive difference to children and young people and raising standards

  Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, including modelling values and vision

  Commitment to support the aims of the MAT

Desired Criteria

• Post QTS Qualification
• Research Qualification
• NPQH Status, or prepared to work towards this
• Higher Degree (BA / MSc Level)
• SENCO Qualification

• Presentation information to Governors and stakeholders

  Evaluating the impact of CPD activities for teachers

  Experience of performance management
• Knowledge of the curriculum coverage and outcomes expected across a range of Key Stages

What the school offers its staff

• We offer greater PPA time than the national requirement for all of our Teachers.
• Our employee’s development and progression journeys are proof that we invest in our staff and provide comprehensive training and development opportunities.
• We use a collaborative approach to our appraisals process that aims to foster a culture of inclusive professional development within which staff feel valued and treated fairly
• We pride ourselves on our wellbeing offer to employees, ensuring our staff’s health and wellbeing is considered in every decision-making process.
• Better Health at Work Award Advocates with employees trained as Health Advocates to help our employees look after their own mental health and wellbeing.
• We have a flexible and generous approach to family appointments and events.
• A comprehensive induction package and ongoing training.

Further details about the role

Job Description

Job Purpose:

• To play a major role under the direction of the Head of Hospital School in formulating the aims and objectives of the school, establishing the policies through which they shall be achieved, managing staff and resources to achieve the aims and objectives of the school and monitor progress towards achievement.
• Undertake the professional duties as the Deputy Head of School reasonably delegated to you by the Head of School.

• Undertake the professional duties of the Head of School, in the event of their absence from school.

  To provide professional leadership and management of the school improvement priorities.

  Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Lead for Children Looked After.

  Contribute to development of the curriculum offer with a focus on relational approaches and high quality outcomes.

Main Responsibilities:

Strategic Direction and Continuous School Improvement

• Support the Head of School in ensuring the vision for the school is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all.
• Demonstrate the vision and values of the school in everyday work and practice. Motivating and working with others to create a shared culture and positive climate.
• Assist the Head of School in ongoing annual review of standards of leadership, teaching and learning in specific areas of responsibility and across areas of school provision.
• Develop policies and practices for subjects/areas which reflects the schools commitment to high achievement and is consistent with national and local strategies.
• Make use of effective and proportional processes of evaluation to identify and analyse complex or persistent problems and barriers which limit school effectiveness, and identify priority areas for improvement.
• Use relevant data to develop appropriate evidence-informed strategies for improvement as part of well-targeted plans which are realistic, timely, appropriately sequenced and suited to the school’s context.
• Ensure careful and effective implementation of improvement strategies, which lead to sustained school improvement over time.

• Support the Head of School to establish an outstanding school and drive continuous improvement.

  Raise outcomes for young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

  Champion the needs of individual learners through positive relationships and professional challenge.

  Build highly effective relationships with pupils, families and communities.

  Work collaboratively with Local Authority and other partners.

  Work within a leadership team across the MAT.

  Research extensively and utilise evidence-based studies to further improve the impact of our work on outcomes for vulnerable young people.

  Understand, share and contribute to the vision and goals of RTMAT.
• Promote high expectations for attainment.
• Work with stakeholders to inform action.
• Work in partnership with the Head of School across all settings within Hospital School including hospitals and a range of community venues across local and neighbouring authorities.
• To work alongside the Head of School and wider team on their journey to becoming an Outstanding school.

Leading Teaching & Learning

• Work with the Head of School to raise the quality of teaching and learning and pupils achievement, setting high expectations and monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of learning outcomes.
• Establish and sustain high-quality, expert teaching across all subjects and phases, built on an evidence-informed understanding of effective teaching and how pupils learn.
• Ensure teaching is underpinned by high levels of subject expertise and approaches which respect the distinct nature of subject disciplines or specialist domains.
• Ensure that a high quality educational experience is available for all children and young people.
• Ensure effective use is made of all forms of assessment.
• Encourage the teaching team to explore pedagogies, retrieval approaches and relational approaches to ensure all learners can make aspirational progress.
• Provide regular feedback for colleagues in a way which recognises good practice and supports their progress against professional and performance management objectives resulting in tangible impact on pupils learning.
• Benchmark the quality of teaching and learning against the Ofsted framework and through work with partner organisations both locally and nationally.
• Ensure the successful creation, implementation and development of extra and cross curricular activities to enrich and broaden student learning experience.
• Use student performance data to raise standards.

Curriculum & Assessment – Raising Aspirations

• Ensure a broad, structured and coherent curriculum entitlement which sets out the knowledge, skills and values that will be taught.
• Ensure that the needs and aspirations of each student are met through personalised learning and assessment for learning.
• Ensure all pupils have access to the broadest curriculum offer regardless of their SEND, disadvantage or economic situation.
• Embrace the RTMAT curriculum intent, implementation and impact model, focussing on the 3C’s: Currency, Character and Community.

• Support effective curricular leadership, developing subject leaders with high levels of relevant expertise with access to professional networks and communities both across the Trust and within the wider community.

  Ensure that all pupils are taught to read through the provision of evidence-informed approaches to reading, particularly the use of systematic synthetic phonics for early reading.

  Embed effective approaches that encourage older pupils to improve their reading, writing, oracy and communication.

  Ensure valid, reliable and proportionate approaches are used when assessing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum.

  Develop curriculum pathways that are well informed by the needs of the local and wider economy, leading to skills for work and knowledge of employment opportunities.

  Use data and evidence-informed research to improve the curriculum offer.

Standards and Data Management

• Uphold ambitious educational standards which prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life, including those from disadvantaged groups.

  Ensure a culture of high staff professionalism.

  Embed a ‘learning culture’ through demonstrating a positive approach to new challenges and supporting others to develop themselves.

  Uphold accurate oversight of academic standards for all pupils to ensure they achieve their academic potential.

  Analyse data sets across the curriculum subjects.

  Analyse and report headline data and subject breakdown standards to wider SLT.

  Use benchmarking to ensure the school holds ambitious expectations for all pupils with additional and special educational needs and disabilities.

Attitudes & Behaviour

• Establish and sustain high expectations of behaviour and wellbeing for all pupils, built upon relationships, rules and routines, which are understood clearly by all staff and pupils.
• Ensure high standards of pupil behaviour and courteous conduct in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy.
• Implement consistent, fair and respectful approaches to managing behaviour and wellbeing.
• Ensure that adults within the school model and teach the behaviour of a good citizen.
• Support the implementation of approaches to Personal Development that encourage positive behavioural changes in school, at home and in the community.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

• Ensure the school holds ambitious expectations for all pupils regardless of their additional and special educational needs and disabilities.
• Support the Head of School to establish and sustain culture and practices that enable pupils to access the curriculum and learn effectively.
• Ensure the school works effectively in partnership with parents, carers and professionals, to identify the additional needsand special educational needs and disabilitiesof pupils, providing support and adaptation where appropriate.
• Understand the SEND code of practice and how to evaluate the quality of provision for learners with SEND.
• Work collaboratively to ensure that all learners have access to the right educational provision, including the provision of transition support and professional development for staff in any new setting.
• Engage effectively with information gathering, assessment and sharing of information relevant to the educational and other development needs of learners to ensure the best outcome and support.
• Apply best practice in data sharing protocols.

Professional Development

• Ensure staff have access to high-quality, sustained professional development opportunities, aligned to balance the priorities of whole-school improvement, team and individual needs.
• Prioritise the professional development of staff, ensuring effective planning, delivery and evaluation which is consistent with the approaches laid out in the standard for teachers’ professional development.
• Ensure that professional development opportunities draw on expert provision from beyond the school, as well as within it, including nationally recognised career and professional frameworks and programmes to build capacity and support succession planning.
• Implement RTMAT’s Professional Reflection and Development approaches.
• Challenge practice that does not result in the best outcomes for pupils.

Operational Management

• Ensure the protection and safety of pupils and staff through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of the duty of care.
• Work with the Head of School to prioritise and allocate financial resources appropriately, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness and probity in the use of public funds.
• Work alongside the Head of School to oversee the development of effective timetabling, to ensure smooth and effective running of the school
• Act as a model of professional conduct and presentation, demonstrating high standards of expertise and commitment.
• Lead the continuing professional development of all staff setting high expectations for your own performance and that of others.

• Monitor the effectiveness of colleagues’ teaching and wider professional impact and report the evaluation to the Head of School.

  Act as team leader for Performance Management.

  Undertake professionals duties of the Head of School in their absence.

  Provide particular support for new teachers and supply staff.

  Ensure staff are deployed and managed well with due attention paid to workload.

  Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies that enable the school to operate effectively and efficiently.

  Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk.

  Participate in recruitment and selection of staff.

  Deploy and develop staff in order to improve the quality of education in school.

Working in Partnership

• Forge constructive relationships beyond the school, working in partnership with parents, carers and the local community.
• Work successfully with other schools and organisations in a climate of mutual challenge and support.
• Establish and maintain working relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues across other public services to improve educational outcomes for all pupils.

Governance and Accountability

• Understand and welcome the role of effective governance, upholding the obligation to give account and accept responsibility.
• Establish and sustain professional working relationship with those responsible for governance.
• Ensure that staff know and 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.
• Support the Headteacher to build a community of local Governance that listens to the voice of all stakeholders and has the needs of pupils at the heart of all decision made.

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.

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About River Tees Hospital School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 18
• School size: 1 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: River Tees Hospital School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@rtmat.org.uk
• Phone number: 01642 213799
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River Tees Hospital School is an integral part of the River Tees Multi-Academy Trust Family, where learning and wellbeing is at the centre of everything that we do. We work with the most vulnerable children, who have a complex range of physical and/or mental health difficulties, helping them to re-set their learning journey to achieve better outcomes and to improve their life chances in the short and longer term. It is recognised that each learner requires a unique setting and bespoke support programme to help them back into either mainstream education or a specialised educational pathway.

River Tees Hospital School creates an inclusive environment where staff strive to ensure all learners make accelerated academic progress whilst equally focusing on their personal development and wellbeing. We provide a range of specialist assessments, which allow us to develop an integrated plan that will work in harmony with the academic and emotional wellbeing strands.

River Tees Hospital School gives every learner the chance to be the best that they can be. This is achieved through the removal of barriers to learning, and the delivery of personalised educational programmes which lead to valuable and valid qualifications.

River Tees Hospital School is dedicated to providing high quality education through an innovative structure, so that vulnerable students have access to advanced and energising programmes of learning. We value the professional relationships between staff and learners, but equally ensure strong collaborative partnership work with parents, carers, trustees, external providers and the wider community, to ensure learners achieve their potential.

All learners are supported to develop lively and enquiring minds, whilst ensuring that they feel safe and valued in an inclusive environment. The ethos of inclusion is central to all of the work of our Trust and we strive to help our young people to achieve their aims and ambitions.

Adam Burns
Head of Hospital School

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