Assistant Head Teacher

Job Description

Call/email Alisdair to get an application form to complete and also a full job description.Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per weekSalary: L1-L5 Closing Date: 16thMay with interviews on 20th MayThis NEW school is part of a UK wide SEN Schools group of over 20 SEN/SEMH schools - they are the 6th largest provider of SEN education and care in the UK.They 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.They are currently looking for a Secondary Assistant Headteacher to join them. The building has been redeveloped into an amazing learning environment with facilities to allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturingenvironment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve.The Headteacher is looking for fun, passionate, dedicated, and driven staff to help support her vision for the pupils and the school environment. She is committed to offering a truly unique workplace environment, embedded with a supportive culture, positiveethos, strong teamwork, and personal drive, with further career opportunities as both the school and this schools group, as a company, grows.Your 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

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 focuson 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.

Benefits:

• Training and Development

This schools group strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people they support. They offer a wide range of programmes and opportunities to all employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• Save money on your bills!

With the cost of living rising they have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money onthings like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year they compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. They also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to this Group and they have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for £1,000

They’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.Required skills

• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Special needs
• sen
• SLT