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Headteacher - Water Street Community Primary School

Skipton, Water Street Community Primary School, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 1PE

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Start date details
September 2023
Closing date
15 January 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 November 2022

Job details

Job role: Headteacher
Deputy headteacher
Assistant headteacher
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Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern: Full time: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: L14 (£61,042) – L21 (£72,483)

What skills and experience we're looking for

You will:

Be a committed leader with excellent interpersonal skills who can motivate and manage astakeholders, effectively shaping and delivering the strategic plan.
Be an inspirational and dynamic leader who actively encourages and respects the views of others.
Have a continuing drive to reflect, learn and strive for positive development, for themselves, their staff team, the children and our school as a whole.
Bring fresh ideas to deal with challenging issues.
Have the ability to step into a teaching environment should the need arise.
Possess diplomacy, impartiality, ability to reflect, understanding of current educational climate, enthusiasm, awareness of the individual, focus and ability to work hard and set example.
Have an in-depth knowledge and experience of safeguarding guidance. You will apply this knowledge to help maintain safeguarding procedures and policies, as well as being approachable for all staff to alert and discuss any safeguarding issues or concerns on a day-to-day basis.
Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of young people, social, physical and emotional alongside educational needs, and ensure that the school provides a rounded provision to nurture them.
Be collaborative and outward looking, developing partnerships for the benefit of the school and wider educational community.
Demonstrate superb leadership skills with ability to challenge robustly and constructively.
Be an outstanding teaching practitioner able to set and achieve ambitious goals and continually seek to raise standards and promote our vision, values and aims in a way that is relevant and inspiring to all.
Be able to consider and shape how we can adapt our practices innovatively to promote and enhance the wellbeing of our staff team.

Have an ability to take tough decisions especially around financial resilience.
Possess the communication skills and personality to build strong relationships with the staff and parents.

What the school offers its staff

Our Opportunity

As Headteacher at Water Street you will be leading a team of motivated, enthusiastic and skilled staff, fully committed to moving the school forward on the next stage of our journey of continuous improvement.

It is an exciting opportunity for the new Headteacher who, as a dynamic, innovative, and experienced professional, will lead the school to continue to be outstanding and to fully meet the needs of the community it serves in an ever-changing educational landscape. Your remit will be to raise standards by developing the school, with an ability to effect change and to work collaboratively with colleagues, in the school, across the school, with the wider community and have the children at the heart of everything you do.

We can offer you:

An excellent opportunity to provide strategic leadership and direction whilst building upon the high standards already in place.
A happy, caring and supportive school, with well-behaved pupils who respect each other and have a thirst for learning.
An ambitious curriculum, which aims to give every pupil a love for learning and enriching opportunities.
A Governing Body that is committed to providing support on all matters, including more sensitive or difficult issues - this includes the wellbeing of all staff members – and who are experienced, committed and passionate about our school and ensuring our pupils reach their potential.
Support from our dedicated staff team, North Yorkshire Senior Education Advisor and from the Craven Partnership

Further details about the role

Key Skills (Extended)
Be someone who recognises the importance of maintaining the school’s existing values while instilling their own leadership and identity.
Be someone who is capable of and confident in, making difficult decisions and asking challenging questions in order to seek the best possible outcome for our school as a whole.
Possess the people skills to continue the successful relationships with parents and carers and continue to offer a supportive environment for the staff whilst continuing to lead from the front.

When applying please take into account the following:

Supporting Information

The supporting information section of your application should clearly evidence your ability to meet the requirements we have outlined in the person specification. This will be used to shortlist applicants for this role and therefore it is imperative that you provide evidence as requested.

References

When completing your application, please provide two employment references.

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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