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Job Title: Assistant Headteacher (Secondary Lead)
Location: Wolverhampton
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Salary: £47,815 - £52,074 (L1-L5 )
Closing Date: 16th May with interviews on 20th May
We are currently seeking an Assistant Headteacher to join an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.
Our client have opened a brand new Primary and Secondary ASC/SEMH school last year in Wolverhampton with a proposed capacity of 80 students aged between 5-19.
The main purpose of the role:
The Assistant Headteacher will support the headteacher and Deputy Headteacher in:
- Communicating the school’s vision compellingly and supporting the headteacher’s strategic leadership
- The day-to-day management of the school
- Formulating the aims and objectives of the school
- Establishing policies for achieving these aims and objectives
- Managing staff and resources to that end
- Monitoring progress towards meeting the school’s aims and objectives
The Assistant Headteacher will also have a timetabled teaching commitment of up to 50% complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others. The Assistant Headteacher will be responsible for the secondary phase of the school, encompassing curriculum, progress, attainment and qualifications with a focus on leading personal development.
Key duties:
Leadership and Management – A member of the senior leadership team (SLT) required to take a shared responsibility for providing vision, strategic direction, and leadership to the school.
Teaching and Learning – Lead teaching and learning to support the achievement of students, taking specific responsibility for secondary education, qualifications and personal development.
Behaviour and Attendance – Lead these key areas within the school in order to support the achievement of students, taking specific responsibility for whole school monitoring and interventions that generate measurable improvements.
Safeguarding – to support SLT with the safety of the students, school and staff as per school policies.
Community – Promote and model excellent relationships with parents and carers.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Qualified Teacher status
- Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
- Experience of working with young people with ASD
- Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedure
- Ability to create and maintain nurturing relationships with young people
- Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety
- Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners important
- A flexible approach and a high level creativity
- Experience of managing staff and teams
Benefits
- Life assurance
- Competitive pension
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme
- Free membership to Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
