Head Teacher Primary

We are searching for a Assistant Head teacher for Primary, to join a dynamic team starting September 30th 2024. This is a permanent contract with an annual salary which can be negotiated at interview.

We currently have 5 Roles available in this position across the South East London Region. Please do enquire if you have the relevant skills and experience to take on this role.

INTERVIEW DATES 14/05, 29/05

Our Schools aspires to provide each student with an exemplary education this is reflected in our Outstanding OFSED award.

Assistant Head Teacher Job Description
Job Title: Assistant Head Teacher
Reporting to: Head Teacher
Grade: Leadership Pay Spine
Summary:
To work with senior leaders in all aspects of leadership and management and to take
responsibility for managing and developing teaching and learning, curriculum, assessment
and enrichment throughout the school.
General Responsibilities
The Assistant Headteacher is to take a central role in assisting the Leadership Team and
Governing Body to develop our school in accordance with its shared values and our school
development plans. He/ she will work in close partnership with the Partnership schools.
The Assistant Headteacher is to be a primary teacher with experience across the primary
age range; an experienced curriculum and team leader, with a particular focus on inclusion,
a leader in assessment for learning and assessing pupils’ progress and a key person in the
senior management team.
The functions and specific responsibilities below are to be undertaken in conjunction with
the duties of an Assistant Headteacher as defined in the Teachers’ Pay and Conditions
Document.
Specific Responsibilities
The Assistant Headteacher will teach classes to model good practice, develop relationships,
support training and development and ensure ‘quality first teaching’ is embedded across the
phases they lead.
The Assistant Headteacher will take lead responsibility for ensuring the best possible
curriculum offer, provision, well-being, progress and achievement for all children through
careful monitoring and holding staff to account for the progress their pupils make.
The Assistant Headteacher will be a model professional, setting an excellent example to all
staff. He/she will work in close partnership with the Leadership Team in actively promoting
enrichment, entitlement and achievement through building effective working relationships
with stakeholders. He/she will work with the Leadership Team to ensure that the school
offers a high quality, engaging and well -matched curriculum for all children.
Leadership and Management:
• Support senior leaders in the effective day-to-day management of the school and school
community including recruiting and inducting staff, leading assemblies and staff
meetings and responding to the views, needs and requests of children, staff, parents,
governors and visitors.
• Work with the Leadership Team, staff and governors in the development,
implementation and review of school improvement plans, including regular monitoring
and evaluation of standards and quality of provision.
• Work with the staff to develop a strong learning environment that has at its centre high
expectations of learning, work, performance, academic achievement and behaviour.
• Work with the Senior Leaders in the school’s achievement reviews and target setting
processes by taking a major role in assessment and actively supporting and securing the
school's success in national tests including those at the end of the key stages they lead.
• Take a leading role in the leadership team by having special responsibility for ensuring
that the school assesses and monitors the progress and achievement of all children. This
includes leading in AfL and all forms of national and local assessment and reporting
requirements.
• Support the induction and deployment of new staff, voluntary help, work experience
students, trainee teachers/ students and parents/ carers working in classrooms and
throughout the school. They will be required to ensure all safeguarding requirements
are met and that their work in school supports the learning and well-being of all children.
• Work as part of the leadership team in setting, nurturing, promoting and maintaining a
very high standard of behaviour and mutual respect throughout the school, ensuring that
all staff play an active role in the pursuit of these standards
Teaching and learning
• Determine, organise and implement a diverse, flexible curriculum and implement an
effective assessment framework.
• Ensure that learning is at the centre of strategic planning and resource management and
lead and support the teaching and learning of all children within their phases. Provide
and promote models of excellent classroom practice through whole class and group
teaching, coaching, mentoring and supported self-evaluation for teaching and learning
staff.
• Establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to teaching and learning and
ensure a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can have a voice,
achieve success and become highly engaged in their own learning.
• Design, develop and implement systems for the collection of useful, timely, and accurate
assessment data to track the progress of individual and groups of children in order to
inform planning, evaluate performance, track progress and secure raised achievement
across the key stages they lead. This will include agreeing and articulating high
expectations and setting aspirational targets.
• Monitor the effectiveness of teaching and learning including teachers’ planning,
monitoring, book looks and triangulations. This is clearly communicated with staff.
Strengthening Community
• Promote and model good relationships with parents and carers, which are based on
mutual respect to support and improve pupils’ learning and achievement.
• Contribute to the development of the school as a hub of the community; strengthening
partnerships with families, neighbours, our local and wider community, other schools,
services and the local authority.
• Contribute to policies and practices which promote equality of opportunity. Support
staff well-being and work-life balance and help to ensure access to opportunities for
growth, achievement and success for all.
Other duties and responsibilities
Any other duties that senior leaders may from time to time ask the post-holder to perform.