Head of School
Crestwood Community School, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 4FZ17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
14 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L20 - L24: £75,331 - £83,081
What skills and experience we're looking for
Crestwood Community School is one school, with two campuses serving central Eastleigh. We are looking to appoint an experienced Senior Leader to be Head of School for our Shakespeare Campus to start in September 2024. This exciting opportunity has arisen as a result of our successful current Head of School relocating, at the end of the current academic year, to a post abroad. The successful candidate will be joining a Core Senior Leadership Team consisting of a Headteacher, who has been at the school since 2006, and the Head of School on the Cherbourg Campus who has been in post since 2016. The wider SLT consists of 8 Assistant Headteachers and 9 Achievement Leaders.split across both campuses.
The Headteacher works across both campuses and Core SLT meets every morning, virtually, to keep abreast of the current issues. The Heads of School are responsible for the day to day operational needs of their campus, as well helping shape, with the core and wider SLT, the strategic direction of the whole school.
Crestwood Community School is committed to excellence through empowering all learners to achieve success, whatever their starting points and wherever they come from. Our priorities are that every learner achieves and makes good progress; to promote a positive learning culture that challenges and empowers and to raise aspirations for all in our learning community. Our students are Ready, Responsible and Respectful and these simple morals enable them to fulfil every aspect of their potential.
Our current postholder, Steve Gibbs, says - “Some would say the position of Head of School at Crestwood provides the best of both worlds. If successfully appointed, you would be the figurehead for a campus and have operational responsibility for 750 students and nearly 100 staff on a daily basis. Further, alongside the headteacher and the head of school from the other campus you would have a significant influence on the strategic direction of the school. The huge benefit is you would do all of this within the relative security of being line managed and coached by one of the most experienced and successful headteachers in Hampshire. Crestwood will always hold a special place in my heart. I will miss the students and the staff, but I will always feel part of #crestwoodfamily”.
Crestwood
Community School had an Ofsted inspection in February 2024, which confirmed
that we continue to be a ‘good’ school.
The report stated that at Crestwood “there
is a welcoming, friendly atmosphere”. They also said that “teachers and support staff, including those
in the early stages of their career, are proud to work at the school. They
particularly value school leader's careful consideration of their workload and
well-being so that they can focus their efforts fully on pupils’ education.” In
addition, Ofsted report that “many
pupils, staff and parents describe the school as a ‘big family’. This is a
happy school, where staff and students want to be. The #Crestwoodfamily
pervades through everything we do
What the school offers its staff
We will ensure that the successful candidate has:
- comprehensive induction including a professional coach
- continuous professional learning, development and improvement
- the opportunity to contribute to raising standards for all our students
- close working within the Core SLT to help shape the strategic direction
- a strong SLT team, who are collaborative and collegiate
- the most fantastic Personal Assistant to the Senior Team to support you
As a school we take staff well being seriously. We offer staff the following:
- wellbeing weeks, with no commitments scheduled after school
- free lunch every day
- free tea and coffee
- half termly cooked breakfasts
- accrued inset days, taken as twilights, giving staff an additional 4 days off a year
- One wellbeing day per year (during term-time), to be taken at their chosen time (after a qualifying period)
- weekly thank you bulletin
- birthday cards
- heads discretionary leaves of absence for family events
- acts of random kindness
- access to mental health first aider
Further details about the role
Completed applications, with the names and addresses of two referees, including your existing Headteacher or Line Manager, should be emailed to krista.dawkins@crestwood.hants.sch.uk and hr@crestwood.hants.sch.uk.
This is not just any Head of School post and your application should address the specific issues related to Crestwood and how you can contribute and lead on our improvement journey.
Please download further details and a Hampshire Teaching Application form from the school website www.crestwood.hants.sch.uk located under the School Information / Vacancies tab.
We would encourage you to come and visit us before applying. You can arrange this through the Headteacher’s PA, Justine Sayers, by emailing her on justine.sayers@crestwood.hants.sch.uk.
Tours -
Thursday 18 April 2024 Shakespeare Campus, 12.30-1.15pm,Cherbourg Campus, 1.45-2.00pm
Friday 19 April 2024 Shakespeare Campus, 12.30-1.15pm,Cherbourg Campus, 1.45-2.00pm
Thursday 25 April 2024 Shakespeare Campus, 9.15-10.00am,Cherbourg Campus, 10.30-11.15am
Friday 26 April 2024 Shakespeare Campus, 9.15-10.00am,Cherbourg Campus, 10.30-11.15am
Commitment to safeguarding
Crestwood Community School and Hampshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@crestwood.hants.sch.uk
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Crestwood Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1403 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Crestwood Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- justine.sayers@crestwood.hants.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02380 641232
Crestwood Community School is one school, with two campuses serving central Eastleigh. Crestwood Community School had an Ofsted inspection in June 2018, which confirmed that we are a ‘good’ school. We also achieved outstanding gradings in Personal Development and Behaviour and Leadership. They also said that as a school we are “passionately committed to providing a first-class inclusive education for all pupils; tenacious in their pursuit of additional resources and approaches to continually improve provision.” This is a happy school, where staff and students want to be. The #Crestwoodfamily pervades through everything we do.
Arranging a visit to Crestwood Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email justine.sayers@crestwood.hants.sch.uk.
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