Assistant Head of School

Assistant Head of School

Location: Cranborne, Dorset

Salary: £44,305.00 - £47,706.00 (Teacher PayScale L1 – L4)

Hours: 40 hours per week.

Eteach are working with an SEN school in Cranborne who believe in giving young people the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, this school support students with a range of additional learning needs to create and meet their own goals.

The main purpose of the role:

As Assistant Head of School, you will work with the Principal & Head of School in all aspects of leadership and management and to take responsibility for managing and developing learning and teaching, curriculum, careers & work experience, assessment and enrichment throughout the designated phases of the school.

You will take a central role in assisting the Principal & Head of School, to develop our school in accordance with its shared values and the schools development plans

Key duties:

• Spend up to 0.6 of post (to be directed by the Head of School) of working time classroom based demonstrating and modelling good practice, and ensuring ‘quality teaching first’.

• Play a key role in the overall smooth running of the school

• Positively encouraging, coaching and mentoring and supporting training and development for all members of the team.

• To take lead responsibility for ensuring the best possible curriculum offer, provision, well-being, progress and achievement for all student especially through enrichment, creative learning, extended services, partnerships and collaboration.

• Work with the Principal and Head of School to ensure that the school offers a high quality, exciting, engaging, well resourced, differentiated and well matched curriculum for all students.

• To develop positive relationships within the school, wider Aurora Team and externally which support the running and developing of the school towards and sustaining outstanding.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

Successful candidate qualities:

Qualifications:

• Recognised teacher training qualification – Cert Ed. / PGCE / QTS or QTLS / Diploma in Teaching (essential)

• Accredited training in specific areas of special education, e.g. Autism, Dyslexia etc. (desirable)

• Management/leadership qualification (desirable)

Experience:

• Proven track record of excellent creative and structured teaching within special needs environment.

• Experience of holding responsibility for and turning policy into effective and successful practice.

• Leadership of a significant area or phase or inclusion, including responsibility for raising standards across the whole college.

• Effective team management and working collaboratively and effectively with others.

• Communicating effectively to a wide range of different audiences though a range of different mediums.

• Successful management of complex scenarios and conflict resolution

• Effective relationships working successfully with a range of external agencies

What’s on offer?

Be part of the schools successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance

• Teachers’ Pension

• Perkbox - offering high street discounts

• Employee assistance programme

• Car lease scheme

• Fully funded training and qualifications

• Bike to work scheme

• Free membership to a Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.