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Deputy Headteacher

Whitmore High School, Harrow, HA2 0AD

This job expired on 16 May 2022 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2022

• Closing date

  16 May 2022 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 May 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership Pay Scale 20 (£70,713) to Leadership Pay Scale 24 £77,644 (full-time equivalent)
• Additional allowances:

  • Staff are supportive and collaborative ; • We serve a diverse and supportive local community who value education ; • State of the art building with well-equipped classrooms, excellent resources and modern facilities ; • You’ll be working in an OFSTED rated ‘Outstanding’ school ; • Exceptional and wide-ranging CPD opportunities ; • Staff Wellbeing group who promote a healthy work life balance and arrange activities such as weekly staff yoga, on-site massage, weekly fruit, breakfast boxes, well-being garden, book club with free Kindle loan ; • Free annual flu jab, free use of the on-site gym, Cycle to Work tax free bike scheme

Deputy Headteacher job summary

Are you an inspirational, highly skilled leader with a proven track record of success at senior level? Are you passionate about leading in an innovative and forward thinking school? We are seeking to appoint an inspirational and dynamic Deputy Headteacher to join our Leadership Team and drive forward the vision for our school. The successful candidate will: • Work to ensure excellent outcomes and provision across all areas and key stages of the school • Support the Headteacher in developing and communicating a clear vision and ethos for the school • Promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice • Provide strategic and operational leadership of key aspects of the school’s activities • Lead the effective and rigorous self-review of areas of the school’s work, contribute to the development of the School Improvement Plan and monitor its effective implementation • Establish a culture of sharing good practice throughout the school and with other schools/organisations to secure excellent outcomes for all • Oversee the quality of provision in linked departments and year groups, ensuring regular and systematic reviews provide early identification of strengths/weaknesses and effective interventions as required • Develop a broad, balanced and coherent curriculum that meets the needs of all students • Maintain high standards of behaviour and engagement and provide a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all students and staff • Champion and support the progress and personal development of vulnerable, disadvantaged and underachieving groups of students • Contribute to the effective and efficient day to day running of the school and to deputise for the Headteacher in her absence • Ensure that the school meets all statutory safeguarding requirements and safeguarding provision reflects best practice

Commitment to safeguarding

Whitmore High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and all staff are expected to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks. Online searches may be completed for shortlisted candidates as part of due diligence checks. It is an offence to apply for any role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all posts are listed as exempted employment. You therefore need to reveal all spent convictions during the recruitment and vetting process.

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About Whitmore High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1733 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Whitmore High School website
• Email address: applications@whitmore.harrow.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/whitmore-high-school

Whitmore High School is a mixed comprehensive school with an excellent record of achievement.

Students are expected to achieve the highest standards of work and behaviour in a positive, friendly but disciplined atmosphere. Our staff are highly qualified and passionate about ensuring all students reach their full potential and we work closely with parents to achieve this aim.

At Whitmore High School we aim to provide the best possible education for all our students by:

* Promoting a broad and balanced curriculum in which students take an active part in their own learning.

* Recognising the needs of individuals, placing suitable high demands on them and stimulating them to achieve success.

* Encouraging students to aim for the highest standards of work and behaviour at all times.

* Creating an ordered and friendly community where relationships are positive and founded on courtesy, respect and shared values.

* Acknowledging the importance of links between home, school and the wider community.

* Maintaining a spirit of constructive self-criticism, regularly considering improvements to existing practice.

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