Headteacher
Stoke Fleming Community Primary School, Dartmouth, Devon, TQ6 0QAThis job expired on 12 January 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
12 January 2024 at 9am
Date listed
5 December 2023
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time - Permanent position
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L6 to L11
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Qualified teacher status
- Good honours degree or equivalent
Professional Experience and Knowledge
- Successful recent experience of whole school leadership
- Proven track record of contributing to sustained school improvement
- Experience of leading and managing innovation and change
- Experience of performance management processes to maximise the contribution of colleagues throughout the School
Skills
- Proven ability to drive sustained improvements in teaching and learning
- Proven ability to analyse and interpret student performance data, set challenging targets, devise and oversee effective intervention strategies and monitor outcomes
- Ability to empower, challenge and motivate staff to become high performing as individuals and as teams
- Ability to develop, embed and maintain systems and processes to ensure excellent outcomes are delivered
- Ability to build and develop strategic partnerships
- Ability to communicate vision confidently, clearly and passionately
Knowledge
- Thorough knowledge of the statutory requirements and relevant legislation relating to school leadership and management, including health and safety, child protection and safeguarding
- Understanding of current issues in education locally, nationally and internationally
Personal qualities and attitude
- Strong personal presence
- Determination and commitment with an exceptional capacity for productive work
- Sense of personal drive and ambition
- Enjoys being highly visible and meeting with a range of audiences
- Approachability, openness and integrity
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- the opportunity to lead a successful school as part of a successful and growing Multi Academy Trust
- challenge of developing and implementing a vision for the future of the school
- the opportunity of working with enthusiastic and well-behaved children
- a Trust which cares about its employees as well as its outcomes
- personalised CPD which is second to none as a leading part of South West Institute for Teaching and Kingsbridge Research School
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- the opportunity to develop your career further as part of an expanding Trust
- a very supportive, dedicated and enthusiastic staff body
- a parent body committed to moving the school forward
- a highly effective, supportive and challenging Governing body
- the support of dedicated and experienced school leaders
- a shared services operation which cuts out the ‘white noise’ and enables our Headteachers to focus on running their school
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 Stoke Fleming Community Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 144 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jodie.carson@educationsouthwest.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Stoke Fleming Community Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jodie.carson@educationsouthwest.org.uk.
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