Assistant Head Teacher

Blackstone Education are working with a school in Epsom who are looking to recruit an Assistant Headteacher on a permanent basis.

The Assistant Headteacher will support the 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 the achievement of the school's aims and objectives

The Assistant Headteacher will be required to have a teaching responsibility, depending on the staffing needs at the school, complying with the Teachers' Standards and modelling best practice for others. They may also be required to undertake any of the duties delegated from the Headteacher

The assistant headteacher will:

• Uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics, behaviour and professional conduct
• Build positive and respectful relationships across the school community
• Serve in the best interests of the school's pupils

Under the direction of the headteacher, the 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

Under the direction of the headteacher, the assistant headteacher will:

• 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
• Use valid, reliable and proportionate approaches to assessing pupils' knowledge and understanding of the curriculum
• Lead post-16 provision and preparation for adulthood
• Ensure the school is appropriately registered with relevant bodies for examinations and qualifications and remains compliant with expectations

Under the direction of the headteacher, the assistant headteacher will:

• Promote a culture and practices that enables all pupils to access the curriculum
• Have ambitious expectations for all pupils with SEN and disabilities
• 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.

Under the direction of the headteacher the assistant headteacher will:

• Establish and oversee systems, processes and policies so the school can operate effectively
• 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

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