Headteacher

Battledown Centre for Children and Families, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 6PZ

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Term 6

• Closing date

  31 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £72,162.00 - £77,552.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership scale L16-L19

Headteacher job summary

About you

We are looking to appoint an inspirational Headteacher. The successful candidate will create a positive and appropriate learning environment through their vision and leadership, helping to deliver the highest standard of education to pupils by supporting teachers and staff and ensuring a vibrant, safe and successful school environment. You will also aspire to enhance the life chances and quality of education for our pupils.

The Role

Battledown Centre is a special school which is part of SAND Academies Trust. We provide specialist assessment of children between the ages of 2 to 11 and cover the whole range of additional needs.

At Battledown we believe in the concept of lifelong learning and the notion that learning should be rewarding and enjoyable experience for everyone. Through our teaching we hope to equip children with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to be able to make informed choices about the important things in their lives. We believe that appropriate teaching and learning experiences help children to lead happy and rewarding lives. You will help us shape the future of our school and pupils.

The Trust

We are passionate that every child deserves the very best education. As a partnership we will: improve outcomes, opportunities and life chances for children and young people, offer more / wider support for their families and share and develop staff expertise.

Our Benefits

By joining our team, we can offer you, generous annual leave allowance, generous pension scheme (TPS), Employee Assistance Program & Counselling, Occupational Health Service, Continuing Professional Development and Staff Get Staff Referral Scheme. Applications for flexible working or job share will be considered on an individual basis.

Additional Information

SAND Academies Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. As part of our Safe Recruitment Practice, we will need a completed application form before any offers, and all staff will require safeguarding/pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS, satisfactory health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Please ensure that you have read and understood the information within the Candidate Information pack and understood our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders which can be found on our careers page.

Commitment to safeguarding

SAND Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. All staff will require pre-employment checks including enhanced DBS, satisfactory Health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Applicants who have lived or worked overseas within the last 10 years must provide an equivalent DBS certificate or Police clearance from the country that they resided or worked in. Prohibition checks will be completed if necessary. Applicants should read the Information Pack, Safeguarding Information and Privacy Notice prior to submitting application.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Battledown Centre for Children and Families

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• School size: 67 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Battledown Centre for Children and Families website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/battledown-centre-for-children-and-families-cheltenham (opens in new tab)

Battledown Centre for Children & Families is part of SAND Academies Trust and is a school for pupils with a range of special needs, aged 2-11, based in Cheltenham.

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