Headteacher
Alverton Primary School, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL6 1RBThis job expired on 7 October 2022
Start date details
April 2023 or sooner
Closing date
7 October 2022 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 September 2022
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time standard hours.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary: L13 – L19
Headteacher job summary
As
Headteacher at Alverton you will be leading a team of motivated, enthusiastic
and skilled staff, fully committed to moving the school forward on the next
stage of our journey towards excellence.
It is an exciting opportunity for the new Headteacher who, as a dynamic, innovative, and experienced professional, will lead the school to become outstanding and to fully meet the needs of the community it serves in an ever-changing educational landscape. Your remit will be to raise standards by developing the school, with an ability to effect change at pace and to work collaboratively with colleagues, in the school, across the school, and with the wider community.
About You
To be successful, you must be able to demonstrate success in raising standards or leading a significant whole-school development, You must have recent school leadership experience and be committed to providing the children with a high-quality education. Someone who will actively model and promote the school’s values and Alverton’s collective determination that no child should be ‘left behind’.
You will:
- Be a committed leader with excellent interpersonal skills who can motivate and manage all stakeholders, effectively shaping and delivering the strategic plan.
- Be an inspirational and dynamic leader who actively encourages and respects the views of others
- Have a continuing drive to reflect, learn and strive for positive development, for themselves, their staff team, the children and our school as a whole.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of young people, social, physical and emotional alongside educational needs, and ensure that the school provides a rounded provision to nurture them.
- Be collaborative and outward looking, developing partnerships for the benefit of the school and the wider educational community
- Demonstrate superb leadership skills with ability to challenge robustly and constructively.
- Be someone who recognises the importance of maintaining the school’s existing values while instilling their own leadership and identity.
- Be an outstanding teaching practitioner able to set and achieve ambitious goals and continually seek to raise standards and promote our vision, values and aims in a way that is relevant and inspiring to all.
- Consider and shape how we can adapt our practices innovatively to promote and enhance the wellbeing of our staff team.
- Be someone who is capable of and confident in making difficult decisions and asking challenging questions in order to seek the best possible outcome for our school as a whole.
- Be a strategic thinker able to plan long, medium and short term.
- Be able to review our financial resources and look at how we invest in our school.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and this post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance.
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About Alverton Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 207 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Alverton Primary School website
- Email address
- Julie.crichton@northyorks.gov.uk
- Phone number
- 07816251317
Alverton is a happy and inclusive school, near the centre of Northallerton, where children enjoy learning and achieving in the context of a rich, vibrant, broad and balanced curriculum. We strive to use our beautiful grounds as an extension of our classrooms.
Arranging a visit to Alverton Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Julie.crichton@northyorks.gov.uk.
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