Assistant Head Teacher & SENCO
Location
Wokingham, Berkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
About this role
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic individual as an Assistant Head Teacher who can join our senior team on a Secondment until the end of this Academic Year. The successful post holder would:
- Be an excellent practitioner and someone who has good understanding of the pedagogy needed for the curriculum to be implemented successfully
- Demonstrate a commitment to developing a culture of effective coaching to improve the quality of teaching and learning
- Demonstrate a commitment to improving student progress
The post holder is required to carry out the duties of an Assistant Head Teacher in accordance with the provisions of the current School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document and within the range of teachers’ duties set out in that document and School Development Priorities.
Purpose
The Assistant Head Teacher will support the Acting Head Teacher and Deputy Headteacher in:
- Providing professional leadership and management of the school
- Leading strategic development of the school
- Implementing strategies for school improvement
- Ensuring effective and efficient organisation and administration of the school
- Creating a stimulating, nurturing, happy, safe and productive learning environment that is engaging and fulfilling for all students
- Ensuring the curriculum is broad, balanced and underpinned by the trust principles of curriculum design
Main duties and responsibilities
The Assistant Head Teacher will support the Acting Head Teacher and Deputy Headteacher in:
- Contribute to the development of the school in support of its vision and ethos
- Demonstrate the school’s values in everyday work and practice
- Support practice that promotes and sustains continuous improvement in the school
- Support and promote robust systems for safeguarding, pastoral care and personalised learning are followed to ensure every child feels valued and is known and supported during their time at the school
- Support members of the school community to create a positive and stimulating learning environment, making full use of their skills and talents
- Ensure that learning is at the center of strategic planning and resource management
- Support management and development of all school resources to achieve the school’s aims
- Ensure that the curriculum delivered:
- is based on excellence for all
- meets statutory requirements
- meets the school’s and Trust’s education vision and principles
- meets the needs of all students
- is supported by teaching of the highest quality
- Ensure a consistent and continuous school-wide focus on students’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every student’s learning
- Ensure a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all students achieve success and become engaged in their learning
- Ensure strategies for inclusion, diversity and curriculum access are in place and embedded
- Implement strategies that secure high standards of behaviour and attendance
- Monitor and evaluate the curriculum for both quality and value for money
- Ensure students feel happy, safe, and supported, and have all barriers to their learning and progress addressed/removed
- Monitor, evaluate and review classroom practice
- Promote improvement strategies and provide inspiration and strategic leadership to the teaching team to ensure that the school delivers the highest standards of teaching and learning
- Demonstrate and articulate high expectations and set stretching targets for the whole school community
- Provide strategic leadership of the use of assessment and data systems used in the school and ensure that on-going teacher assessments are secure and robust
SENCO Duties
- Help the headteacher and governing board determine the strategic development of the special educational needs (SEN) policy and provision in your school
- Have day-to-day responsibility for:
- Implementing the SEND policy
- Co-ordinating any specific provisions for individual pupils with SEN, including those with education, health and care (EHC) plans
- Advise staff about SEN strategy and provision
- Work closely with staff, parents and local agencies
- Co-ordinate provision for individual pupils
- Identifying pupils with SEN , and co-ordinating provision that meets those needs
- Monitoring the effectiveness of any SEN provision for pupils
- Making sure the school keeps up-to-date records of all pupils with SEN
- Liaising with the relevant designated teacher where a looked-after pupil has SEN
- Securing relevant services (e.g. provided by the local authority (LA)) for pupils with SEN
- Promoting the inclusion of pupils with SEN within the school (e.g. in terms of access to the curriculum, extra-curricular activities etc.)
- Training teachers on differentiated teaching methods for pupils with SEN
- Recruiting and training SEN teaching assistants
Leading and managing staff
The Assistant Head Teacher will support the Acting Head Teacher and Deputy Headteacher in:
- Ensure that organisational structure reflects the school’s values, and enables management processes to work effectively
- Develop, implement and monitor clear, evidenced-based improvement plans and policies for the development of the school and its facilities
- Ensure that policies and practices take account of national and local circumstances and Anthem policies and initiatives
- Recruit, retain and deploy staff appropriately
- Demonstrate commitment to good worklife balance through modelling good practice and considering the impact of decisions on workload across the school workforce
- Lead and motivate others and generate effective working relationships at all levels
- Maximise the contribution of all staff to improve the quality of education provided and standards achieved
- Ensure staff performance is managed in line with school and Anthem performance management policies and procedures
- Ensure access to effective induction, training and appropriate professional development opportunities
Financial, compliance and facilities management
The Assistant Head Teacher will support the Acting Head Teacher and Deputy Headteacher in:
- Support the management of the school’s finances and resources to ensure maximum benefit for students
- Support with the management of the school site, its buildings, equipment and grounds
- Provide inputs to development of the annual and projected yearly budgets for approval by Anthem
- Assist with setting appropriate priorities for expenditure and allocation of funds
- Ensure that the site provides a positive and safe environment which promotes wellbeing and high achievement for everyone at the school
- Ensure effective financial administration and audit control
- Ensure full compliance with Anthem policies and procedures, regulatory frameworks and statutory duties
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