Headteacher Profile Job Milton Keynes area,England UK,Education / Teaching

Position: Headteacher Job Profile

Salary and grade:
Leadership points 21-27

FTE Full time

Line manager/s:
Executive Regional Director

Main purpose of the job

To work with the Trust Executive, local governors and other school leaders to ensure the very best education for the students, through achieving the school and Trust aims and objectives. In particular, to develop and manage curriculum, teaching and learning policies and lead all provision of the school in line with its specialist designation.

Key duties and responsibilities

Accountable to the Multi Academy Trust for:

sustaining the aims and objectives of the school and establishing the policies through which they will be achieved; managing staff and resources to that end; and monitoring progress towards their achievement;
working to maximise pupil progress towards their full potential;
liaising with key stakeholders to support school improvement.

Strategic direction and development of the school

To work with the Multi Academy Trust to develop a strategic view for the school in its community and analyse and plan for the future needs and further development of the school in a local, national and international context.

To develop overall aims and objectives for the school and policies for their implementation;
To create an ethos and provide educational vision and direction which promotes effective teaching, successful learning and achievement by pupils and sustained improvement in their spiritual, moral, cultural, emotional and physical development, and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life;
To secure the commitment of parents and the wider community to the vision and direction of the school;
To develop and implement a strategic plan, underpinned by sound financial planning, which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring that pupils achieve high standards and make progress, increasing teachers’ effectiveness and securing school improvement;
To ensure that all those involved in the school are committed to its aims, motivated to achieve them and involved in meeting short, medium and long term objectives and targets which secure the educational success of the school;
To ensure that the management, finance, organisation and administration of the school support its vision and aims;
To ensure that policies and practices take account of national, local and school data, inspection and research findings;
To monitor, evaluate and review the effects of policies, priorities and targets of the school in practice and take action if necessary.

Teaching and Learning

To work with the Multi Academy Trust to secure and sustain effective teaching and learning throughout the school and to monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and standards of pupils’ achievement, using benchmarks and setting targets for improvement.

To ensure that all pupils receive a good quality education through a programme designed to promote good learning in a safe and healthy school environment;
To ensure a consistent and continuous school-wide focus on pupil’s achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor every pupils’ learning and progress;
To ensure that learning is at the centre of strategic planning and resource management;
To establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching;
To ensure a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning;
To be able to demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set stretching targets for the whole community;
To be able to implement strategies which secure high standards of behaviour and attendance;
To be able to determine, organise and implement a diverse, flexible curriculum and implement;
To be able to take a strategic role in the development of the new and emerging technologies to enhance and extend the learning experience of pupils;
To monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice and promote improvement strategies to ensure that underperformance is challenged at all levels and ensure effective support and intervention;
To ensure holistic, child‑centred support is in place which empowers children and their families and enables the…


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