EXPIRED

Deputy Headteacher

Whitfield Aspen School, Dover, Kent, CT16 3LJ

This job expired on 27 March 2020 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2020

• Closing date

  27 March 2020 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  10 March 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Lead Practitioners range 4 to Lead Practitioners range 8, £44,218 to £48,808

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Whitfield Aspen School are seeking a Deputy Headteacher to join its well-established leadership team from September 2020. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a unique school, which is a combination of mainstream and special school pupils with profound, severe and complex needs. As well as being part of a supportive team, we will be able to offer both training and opportunities, in order to develop your leadership skills further. You must be passionate about and committed to, supporting inclusion, with the rewards and challenges that brings. You need vision and creativity to be able to problem-solve and positively overcome barriers. Building relationships must be at the heart of everything you do in order to fulfil the school’s vision of Learning Together with Aspiration, Imagination and Determination.
We are hoping to find someone who has already had some experience of leadership and they must be able to demonstrate knowledge of how to plan and initiate improvement across the school, based on sound research.
Visits to the school are essential prior to application.
Information about the school
We are a ‘Good’ school with outstanding opportunities for pupils and staff. In September 2019, we were one of the first schools inspected under the new framework. Whitfield Aspen School is unusual in a national context, in that it is a two/three form entry mainstream primary, with three hundred and eighty pupils, combined with the district special school for one hundred and twenty-eight pupils with Profound, Severe and Complex Learning Needs (PSCN). Our school is an extremely cohesive community with an ethos and culture that helps young people to thrive.

The job description and application form is available on the school website www.whitfieldaspenschool.co.uk or www.kent-teach.com

School visits can be arranged by contacting Juliette Fletcher on juliette.fletcher@whitfield.kent.sch.uk or by telephoning the school office on 01304 821526.

Deadline for applications: Midday, Friday 27th March 2020
Interview date: Wednesday, 22nd April 2020

Our school and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. Any contract will be subject to satisfactory references, Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks, qualification checks, and pre-employment health screening.

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.

This job post has expired.

About Whitfield Aspen School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 585 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Whitfield Aspen School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: juliette.fletcher@whitfield.kent.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/whitfield-aspen-school (opens in new tab)

We are a ‘Good’ school with outstanding opportunities for pupils and staff. In September 2019, we were one of the first schools inspected under the new framework. Whitfield Aspen School is unusual in a national context, in that it is a two/three form entry mainstream primary, with three hundred and eighty pupils, combined with the district special school for one hundred and thirty-six pupils with Profound, Severe and Complex Learning Needs (PSCN). Our school is an extremely cohesive community with an ethos and culture that helps young people to thrive.

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Kent and Medway