ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER
FOXFORD SCHOOL
Permanent
L10+
Required from September 2024
If you want to make a difference, we want to hear from you.
You will be looking to make the next step in your career, perhaps on your way to headship. With stacks of teaching experience and the personality and skills to lead, this role could be just right for you. We are currently accepting applications across all subject specialisms.
After just receiving Good from our December 2022 Ofsted, we are looking to expand our staffing due to expanding our student population.
Foxford is proud of its school; it serves an area north-east of Coventry, has an inclusive, comprehensive intake, welcoming students from all backgrounds. Our staff are dedicated to providing our 1100 students with the opportunity to thrive at school through academic progress, extra-curricular experiences and pastoral care. Castle Phoenix Trust supports the school so that the standard of teaching and support is continually developing.
Contributing to the strategic direction of the school, specific areas of responsibility may include leading on the following areas, dependent on experience:
- Providing impactful leadership of the specific leadership area designated
- Development and implementation of a home learning policy
- Quality assurance of standards and curriculum
- Strategic support for behaviour, attendance and punctuality
- Continual professional development
- Continual professional development
Castle Phoenix Trust specialises in Leadership; we aim to strengthen the quality of leadership at all levels. You will embody our Trust values as they are equally important to us and include Respect to All, From All, Innovation and Collaboration. We will want you to make your mark as soon as you are ready; so that you can inspire others to achieve aspirational progress for all our students. With a ‘can-do’ attitude, you will be a hardworking team player and problem solver, motivated to know we are doing the best for our students.
We will play to your strengths and can offer you:
- Regular feedback to develop your leadership and teaching expertise
- Access to expert coaching
- Developmental opportunities for the next step in your career
- Support from a vibrant and caring leadership team and Trust
- A comprehensive induction programme and mentor
- A range of benefits which includes cycle to work, access to a swimming pool, free parking, an employee discount scheme, provision of an iPad, a commitment to staff wellbeing and recognition initiatives through the Trust’s people strategy and well-being committee.
- A strong and effective admin team to enable you to concentrate on leading.
Foxford has a great deal to be proud of. It is the kind of place people want to work at, with a meaningful focus on student outcomes and a desire to continuously strive for excellence. We are passionate about offering a climate and culture within which all colleagues thrive.
Our headteacher, Alison Gallagher, would be delighted to meet you and discuss the opportunity further. To organise a visit please email Emma Phillips
Application deadline: 9.00am Thursday 11 April 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2023.
These posts are exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and young people and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance.
Safeguarding
Staff are accountable for the way in which they exercise authority, manage risk, use resources and protect students, who they are responsible for or in contact with, from discrimination and avoidable harm. All staff, where paid or voluntary, have a duty to keep young people safe and to protect them from harm. When an individual accepts a role that involves working with children and young people they need to understand acknowledge that the responsibilities and trust are inherent to that role. There will be a requirement that staff observe their obligations in accordance with the Trust’s safeguarding procedure and report any concerns in accordance with the procedure to the appropriate person.