Headteacher

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Headteacher creates a positive and appropriate learning environment through the Leadership and Management of a school. Their duties include helping deliver the highest standard of education to the students, supporting Teachers and staff and ensuring an overall safe and successful school environment.

The Headteacher creates a positive and appropriate learning environment through the Leadership and Management of a school. Their duties include helping deliver the highest standard of education to the students, supporting teachers and staff and ensuring an overall safe and successful school environment.

• Provide inspiring, creative, and purposeful leadership for the staff and children.
• To work in partnership with the Trust, governance, staff, and parents, generating the ethos and values which will underpin the school.
• To co‑create and implement the School Improvement Plan which will secure continuous improvement and support the principles of Mercian Educational Trust.
• To keep up to date with current research into education, particularly teaching and learning and to contribute to the school improvement planning.
• To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school and respond and report to the governing body and the Trust as required.
• To ensure that management, finances, resources, and administration of the school supports its vision and aims and maximises value for all children.
• To ensure that policies and practices take account of national, local, and school requirements and apply sound educational practice through evidence‑based pedagogy.
• To regularly monitor, evaluate and review the impact of policies, priorities and targets and take rapid action to improve if necessary.
• To inspire all those involved in the school to commit to its aims, to stay motivated to achieve them and to be involved in meeting long, medium, and short‑term objectives to secure the educational success of the school.
• Develop an outward‑facing school to collaborate with other academies in the Trust, parents, the wider community, and partners to champion best practice and enhance the education and safeguarding of children.
• Attendance at meetings outside of school hours.

• Continue to maintain an environment that promotes and secures outstanding teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement, behaviour, and attendance.
• Determine, organise, implement, and monitor the curriculum and its assessment and ensure that statutory requirements are met.
• Ensure that children develop study skills to learn more effectively and with increasing independence.
• Determine, organise, and implement a policy for the personal, social, and moral development of children.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning and achievement of all children through appropriate methods.
• Determine and implement policies which ensure inclusion, diversity, and equality of access for all children.
• Leading and Managing Staff.
• Plan, allocate, support, and evaluate work undertaken by groups, teams, and individuals, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities.
• Implement and sustain effective systems for the management of staff performance, incorporating performance management and target setting in line with the school’s improvement plan.
• Promote and monitor the continuing professional development of all staff to support career progression and the academies succession planning.
• Hold staff to account for their professional conduct and practice, both contractually and where relevant as specified in the Terms and Conditions of Service of Teachers.
• Ensure that a Deputy Headteacher or suitable person, assumes responsibility for the discharge of the Headteacher’s function at any time when absent.
• Teaching in exceptional circumstances.

• Work with governors and senior colleagues to recruit, retain, deploy, and develop staff of the highest quality.
• Make arrangements for the security and effective supervision of the school buildings, their contents, and the grounds.
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