SEND Assistant Head Teacher
Oak View School, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1TSThis job expired on 14 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
14 April 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership
What skills and experience we're looking for
Assistant Head Teacher
Full time
Salary Leadership spine 8 -14 Dependent on experience.
September 2024 start
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Oak View School is a good school (Ofsted 2022) and due to the promotion of one of our Assistant Head Teachers to Headship, we are looking for an inspiring and imaginative leader to join our Senior Leadership Team. We are a specialist provision school and currently have 130 pupils who have significant, severe and complex needs.
- You will help to develop creative new approaches to learning throughout the school.
- We are an outfacing school and aim to further develop links with local partners to benefit our pupils and young people.
- You will share responsibility for safeguarding with the Head.
- You will have responsibility for the Middle School Department and work with the Middle School Manager to secure good outcomes for all.
- You will be a key player in moving the school from “good to outstanding”.
- You will take responsibility for specific areas of school life (to be agreed dependent on experience).
- This is a non-class based role.
Your role will be flexible and will reflect the priorities of the school development plan. You will have particular responsibility for driving forward specific aspects of the SDP.
The post offers the opportunity to gain a wide and varied experience of school leadership and management. It also offers the chance for the right candidate to be innovative and to make their mark in a rapidly developing school.
You will need to demonstrate a proven track record of outstanding teaching and working with pupils who have a range of Special Educational Needs. Equally, we would like you to have experience of leadership in SEND practice. You will have an inclusive approach to education, high aspirations for all pupils, staff and the school. You will be able to lead and motivate a team. You will be a reflective practitioner who models emotional intelligence and resilience and is proactive in their work, constantly seeking to improve provision and outcomes for all pupils.
We are a small school, and therefore it is imperative that the successful candidate can build effective working relationships with colleagues, pupils, parents/carers and external agencies.
We are a friendly, supportive and highly skilled staff team and work with unique and engaging pupils. Our Team works closely with parents and professionals from a number of other fields. We are a Trauma Perspective Practice (TPP) school, with our values and ethos deeply embedded in understanding our pupils at the deepest root and responding to them using bespoke strategies to enable them to flourish and make progress whilst in our care.
Our school sits within the Epping Forest School Partnership Trust. Oak View School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Certificate is required for this post prior to commencement.
The closing date for this vacancy is 14th April 2024 at Midnight
Interview date Monday 22nd April 2024.
What the school offers its staff
Assistant Head Teacher
Full time
Salary Leadership spine 8 -14 Dependent on experience.
September 2024 start
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Oak View School is a good school (Ofsted 2022) and due to the promotion of one of our Assistant Head Teachers to Headship, we are looking for an inspiring and imaginative leader to join our Senior Leadership Team. We are a specialist provision school and currently have 130 pupils who have significant, severe and complex needs.
- You will help to develop creative new approaches to learning throughout the school.
- We are an outfacing school and aim to further develop links with local partners to benefit our pupils and young people.
- You will share responsibility for safeguarding with the Head.
- You will have responsibility for the Middle School Department and work with the Middle School Manager to secure good outcomes for all.
- You will be a key player in moving the school from “good to outstanding”.
- You will take responsibility for specific areas of school life (to be agreed dependent on experience).
- This is a non-class based role.
Your role will be flexible and will reflect the priorities of the school development plan. You will have particular responsibility for driving forward specific aspects of the SDP.
The post offers the opportunity to gain a wide and varied experience of school leadership and management. It also offers the chance for the right candidate to be innovative and to make their mark in a rapidly developing school.
You will need to demonstrate a proven track record of outstanding teaching and working with pupils who have a range of Special Educational Needs. Equally, we would like you to have experience of leadership in SEND practice. You will have an inclusive approach to education, high aspirations for all pupils, staff and the school. You will be able to lead and motivate a team. You will be a reflective practitioner who models emotional intelligence and resilience and is proactive in their work, constantly seeking to improve provision and outcomes for all pupils.
We are a small school, and therefore it is imperative that the successful candidate can build effective working relationships with colleagues, pupils, parents/carers and external agencies.
We are a friendly, supportive and highly skilled staff team and work with unique and engaging pupils. Our Team works closely with parents and professionals from a number of other fields. We are a Trauma Perspective Practice (TPP) school, with our values and ethos deeply embedded in understanding our pupils at the deepest root and responding to them using bespoke strategies to enable them to flourish and make progress whilst in our care.
Our school sits within the Epping Forest School Partnership Trust. Oak View School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Certificate is required for this post prior to commencement.
The closing date for this vacancy is 14th April 2024 at Midnight
Interview date Monday 22nd April 2024.
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 Oak View School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 134 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Oak View School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- officemanager@oakview.efspt.org
- Phone number
- 0208 508 4293
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