Headteacher
Glf Schools, Banstead, SM7 1AG3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £91,633- £106,476
Pay scale
- L28-34
What skills and experience we're looking for
Requirements and Skills Proven Track Record:
• Successful leadership as Headteacher or school leader in a secondary school and sixth form centre environment.
• Sustaining high-quality teaching standards and achieving outstanding student outcomes.
• Creating and enforcing policies for a positive and disciplined learning setting and working within a network of schools to share best practices and resources.
• Overseeing budgeting, staffing, and resource allocation at senior level to maximise educational outcomes.
• Developing effective staffing structures and fostering team building.
• Creating a positive, inclusive, and ambitious school culture with familiarity working in a multi-cultural setting with a diverse school community.
Extensive Experience:
• Working in a school that has transitioned from 'Good' to 'Outstanding' or having experience in an 'outstanding' school, or the aspiration and ability to lead the school to ‘Outstanding.’
• Working in a Multi-Academy Trust is desirable, as it demonstrates the ability to navigate and thrive in a complex educational environment.
• Working with the SSB, parents, and key stakeholders to foster a collaborative school community.
• Implementing innovative teaching strategies and continuously improving educational practices with an understanding of quality in learning and teaching and how to achieve excellence.
• Leading rigorous self-evaluation and comprehensive school improvement initiatives, using data and feedback for continuous improvement.
• Collaborating with educational institutions and external agencies to enhance educational provision and student opportunities.
• Managing school resources efficiently to support strategic goals.
• Communicating and implementing a clear, strategic vision, translating it into practical actions that drive school improvement and student success. • Creating a safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment for all students and staff.
Demonstrated Dedication & Ability:
• To safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people with in-depth knowledge and experience of Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures.
• Creating and maintaining effective partnerships with parents, educational bodies, and the community
. • Adapting practices and procedures in response to changes at national, school and Trust level.
• Driving improvements and challenging underperformance.
• To effectively communicate, both orally and in writing, to a range of audiences and a diverse school community.
• Creating a vision and strategy for the school and secure commitment from others by leading by example.
What the school offers its staff
Why Highdown School?
- Highdown believes in all students achieving academic success and great life chances, based on its values ofAspiration, Respect and Excellence.
- Highdown’s excellent provision for its students’ wider development allows them to become confident global citizens, ready to make positive contributions to society.
- The school is committed to professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels, and provides highly regarded induction and Coaching for Excellence programmes.
- Highdown has adopted a ‘Fair Workload Charter’.
- Staff benefit from being members of the PiXL Club and the Princes Teaching Institute.
- GLF Schools is one of the largest and most ambitious MATs in the UK, with the goal of becoming not only a domestic leader, but an internationally recognised institution, providing ample opportunities for professional growth.
- Be part of the GLF network of over 2,500 staff members across 43 schools, dedicated to delivering outstanding educational outcomes for all their pupils.
- The school is on a trajectory to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. This is your opportunity to lead them on this exciting journey.
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 Glf Schools
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- k.sullivan@glfschools.org
Arranging a visit to Glf Schools
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