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Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership L35-L41 ~ £97,273 - £112,660
Headteacher job summary
Do you have the vision, passion and drive to lead our school into the next exciting stage of its development?
If so, we want to hear from you!
We are looking to appoint a Headteacher who has the drive, passion and leadership experience to guide the school through its next challenging, but exciting, phase.
Ashby School is a successful Academy with a large sixth form, a history spanning 453 years and a strong relationship with the local community. We are now embarking on a new chapter as we prepare to join a successful Multi Academy Trust at the start of 2021 and introduce age range change in August 2022 to become an 11-18 school.
Ashby School has benefited from extensive development and re-furbishment over recent years to create outstanding facilities for our students. During 2020, the school site has been re-modelled into two separate campuses consisting of a dedicated post-16 campus and a high quality, well-equipped KS4 site. Work is about to begin on the building of a new £1 million faculty to accommodate our English Department.
We are already looking ahead to the next stage in our development to ensure that the site is ready to welcome KS3 students in 2022.
Providing a high quality and enjoyable educational experience for all students is at the heart of everything we do. Our highly skilled staff team and experienced and committed governing body are dedicated to this aim.
Potential candidates are welcome to arrange an informal visit to the school prior to application. Please contact the Clerk to the Governors, Mrs A Cooper at a.cooper@ashbyschool.org.uk. Social distancing guidelines to be observed.
Applications should be submitted to j.bancroft@ashbyschool.org.uk. Please include a fully completed application form together with a letter of application.
Further information is available on the school website:
www.ashbyschool.org.uk
Closing date for applications is 6th November 2020 at noon.
Shortlisting will take place week commencing 9th November.
Interviews are scheduled for Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th November.
Start date 12 April 2021
Ashby School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of its students and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to enhanced clearance by the Disclosure and Barring Service and pre-employment checks.
Further information about the job
The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
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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 Ashby School
- School type
- Academy, ages 14 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1711 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 14 to 18
Ashby School is a thriving, successful and over-subscribed 14-19 Academy with 1700 students on roll including 600 post-16. Conveniently located close to the M42 and M1, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and with the newly created national forest on the doorstep, the school is set in its own attractive grounds in the expanding market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
We are proud of the work we do at Ashby: if you are passionate about teaching and learning and are seeking to develop your practice in a supportive and dynamic school, we would be delighted to receive your application.