Senior Assistant Headteacher
Abbey Hill School and College, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 5PPThis job expired on 18 May 2023
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
18 May 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 April 2023
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £55,360- £61,042
What skills and experience we're looking for
Knowledge and experience:
- Leadership and management experience in a school
- Proven excellence as a classroom practitioner
- Involvement in school self-evaluation and development planning
- Line management experience
- Demonstrable experience of successful line management and staff development
- Evidence of curriculum design and leadership
- Understanding of high-quality teaching, and the ability to model this for others and support others to improve
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate a vision and inspire others
- Ability to build effective working relationships
- Excellent understanding of SEND Code of Practice
What the school offers its staff
More information on the school including our Prospectus and Safeguarding Policy can be found on our website
https://www.abbeyhillschool.co.uk/
Further information about the job
The post holder’s responsibilities include:
School culture and behaviour
Under the direction of the Headteacher, the Senior Assistant Headteacher will:
- Create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life
- Uphold educational standards in order to prepare pupils from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life
- Ensure a culture of staff professionalism
- Encourage high standards of behaviour from pupils, built on rules and routines that are understood by staff and pupils and clearly demonstrated by all adults in school
- Use consistent and fair approaches to managing behaviour, in line with the school’s behaviour policy
Teaching, curriculum and assessment
- Establish and sustain high-quality teaching across subjects and phases, based on evidence
- Ensure the teaching of a broad, structured and coherent curriculum
- Establish curriculum leadership, including subject leaders with relevant expertise and access to professional networks and communities
- Track and analyse pupil performance data, paying particular attention to disadvantaged groups such as those eligible for the pupil premium, those with special educational needs, or who speak English as an additional language (EAL)
- Plan and implement interventions
- Use valid, reliable and proportionate approaches to assessing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the curriculum
- Ensure the use of evidence-informed approaches to reading
- Ensure pupils are entered and prepared for accredited courses and statutory testing (as appropriate)
Additional and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
The Senior Assistant Headteacher will:
- Promote a culture and practices that allow all pupils to access the curriculum
- Have ambitious expectations for all pupils with SEND
- Make sure the school works effectively with parents, carers and professionals to identify additional needs, and provide support and adaptation where appropriate
- Make sure the school fulfils statutory duties regarding the SEND Code of Practice.
- Ensure continuous professional development for staff in order to meet the needs of pupils
Organisational management and school improvement
- Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies so the school can operate effectively and efficiently
- Ensure staff and pupils’ safety and welfare through effective approaches to safeguarding, as part of duty of care
- Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk
- Ensure effective use of budgets and resources
- Identify problems and barriers to school effectiveness, and develop strategies for school improvement that are realistic, timely and suited to the school’s context
- Make sure these school improvement strategies are effectively implemented
- Work closely with the relevant team(s) to ensure the effective running and maintenance of the school building
- Analyse provision (Abbey Hill Connect) data on attendance, behaviour, exclusions and wellbeing to inform future improvement strategies
Commitment to safeguarding
Abbey Hill School & College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment"
This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from schools or by visiting www.crb.gov.uk
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Abbey Hill School and College
- School type
- Special school, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 355 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitmentabbeyhill@abbeyhillschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01782882882
Abbey Hill School & College is a successful and over-subscribed special school meeting the needs of children and young people with learning difficulties, communication & interaction difficulties and/or Autistic Spectrum Conditions.
Arranging a visit to Abbey Hill School and College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitmentabbeyhill@abbeyhillschool.co.uk.
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