Headteacher
Boughton Leigh Junior School, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1LT13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18-28
What skills and experience we're looking for
Shaping the future:
- Ensures the vision for the school is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by all;• Works within the school community to translate the vision into agreed objectives and operational plans which will promote and sustain school improvement;• Demonstrates the vision and values in everyday work and practice;• Ensures that strategic planning takes account of the diversity, values and experience of the school and community at large;• Translating the Governing Body and Senior Leadership Teams vision for the school in clear deliverable plans.
Leading Learning & Teaching:
- Ensures a consistent and continuous school-wide focus on pupils’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every child’s learning;• Ensures that the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum are met through creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching;• Ensures a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning;• Takes a strategic role in the development of new and emerging technologies to enhance and extend the learning experience of pupils;• Monitors, evaluates and reviews classroom practice and promotes improvement strategies.• Developing Self and Working with Others:• Treats people fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect to create and maintain a positive school culture;• Builds a collaborative learning culture within the school and actively engages with other schools to build effective learning communities;• Ensures effective planning, allocation, support and evaluation of work undertaken by self, teams and individuals;• Develops and maintains a culture of high expectations for self and for others and takes appropriate action when performance is unsatisfactory;• Ensure the development of, and maintain effective strategies and procedures for, staff induction, professional development and performance review.
What the school offers its staff
Further details about the role
Managing the School:
- Creates an organisational structure which reflects the school’s values, and enables the management systems, structures and processes to work effectively in line with legal requirements;• Produces and implements clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies for the development of the school and its facilities;• Manages the school’s financial and human resources effectively and efficiently to achieve the school’s educational goals and priorities;• • Recruits, retains and deploys staff appropriately and manages their workload to achieve the vision and goals of the school;• Manages and organises the school environment efficiently and effectively to ensure that it meets the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations;• Ensures that the range, quality and use of all available resources is monitored, evaluated and reviewed to improve the quality of education for all pupils and provide value for money;• Ensures that the range, quality and use of all available resources is monitored, evaluated and reviewed to improve the quality of education for all pupils and provide value for money.
Securing Accountability:
- Fulfils commitments arising from contractual accountability to the Governing Body;• Develops a school ethos which enables everyone to work collaboratively, share knowledge and understanding, celebrate success and accept responsibility for outcomes;• Ensures individual staff accountabilities are clearly defined, understood and agreed and are subject to rigorous review and evaluation;• Ensure every individual child has access to high quality teaching and learning;• Works with the Governing Body (providing information, objective advice and support) to enable it to meet its responsibilities;• Develops and presents a coherent, understandable and accurate account of the school’s performance to a range of audiences including Governors, parents and carers;• Reflects on personal contribution to school achievements and takes account of feedback from others.
Strengthening Community:
- Builds a school culture and curriculum which takes account of the richness and diversity of the school’s communities;• Creates and promotes positive strategies for challenging racial and other prejudice and dealing with racial harassment;• Ensures learning experiences for pupils are linked into and integrated with the wider community;• Collaborates with other agencies in providing for the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of pupils and their families;• Creates and maintains an effective partnership with parents and carers to support and improve pupils’ achievement and personal development.
Commitment to Safeguarding Children:
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as required under the Education Act 2002 and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment:
- Responsible for promoting the welfare of all children and young people;• Ensuring the policies and procedures adopted by the governing body are fully implemented and followed by all staff;• Ensuring all staff and volunteers feel able to raise concerns about poor or unsafe practice in regard to children, and such concerns are addressed sensitively and effectively in a timely manner in accordance with agreed whistle blowing practices;• Creates an organisational culture which is vigilant to, monitors and prioritises the safeguarding of children and young people above all considerations.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin2590@welearn365.com
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Boughton Leigh Junior School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 475 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Boughton Leigh Junior School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin2590@welearn365.com
- Phone number
- 01788 577914
Arranging a visit to Boughton Leigh Junior School
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