Headteacher

• Date Posted:

  10/04/2024

• Category:

  Leadership

• Salary:

  £65,010 - £71,729 (L14-L18)

• Expires:

  12/05/2024

Key Duties and Responsibilities

The following duties are to be carried out in consultation with, as appropriate, the Local Governing Board, the MAT’s Trustees, the MAT Executive Leadership Team and Central Team, the staff and parents and children/pupils.

Leadership and Management of Pupil Achievement, Progress and Safety

• Ensure that student safety and safeguarding is at the centre of all of the school’s functions, in particular strategic planning and resource management.
• Ensure an aspirational culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning and the learning of others.
• Ensure a consistent and continuous school-wide focus on pupils’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress in every student’s learning.
• Implement strategies which secure high standards of behaviour and attendance, student welfare, and citizenship.
• Ensure collaboration with other agencies in providing for the intellectual, spiritual, moral, cultural, physical, social and emotional well- being of pupils.
• Act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead or Deputy Safeguarding Lead for the school and ensure appropriate levels of capacity and coverage at all times for the safeguarding responsibilities of the school.

Leading and Managing Employees

• Ensure that outstanding teaching is the primary objective for all teachers.
• Lead, motivate, support, challenge and develop employees to secure improvement.
• Ensure that all employees are engaged with the school’s key priorities and the development of the school’s aims and objectives, through effective communication across the whole school community, whether they be teaching or support staff.
• Maximise the contribution of employees to improve the quality of education provided and standards achieved.
• Implement and sustain rigorous procedures for monitoring the performance of all employees including objective setting and personal development plans.
• Acknowledge the responsibilities and celebrate the achievement of individuals and teams.

Leadership and Management of Curriculum

• Determine and ensure implementation of a diverse, flexible curriculum to ensure high quality and personalised learning experiences for pupils of all backgrounds and abilities.
• Develop and champion the impact of the school’s specialisms on pupil opportunity and outcomes.
• Ensure that the curriculum is providing for the intellectual, spiritual, moral, cultural, physical, social and emotional well-being of all pupils
• Ensure that the curriculum enables pupils to progress to sustained engagement in education on exit from the school.

Managing Resources

• Promote creativity, innovation and the use of appropriate existing and new technologies to achieve excellence.
• Agree and set appropriate priorities for expenditure with the Local Governing Body; allocate funds and monitor the effective administration and control of school budgets so that the School secures its objectives.
• Deploy and manage the school’s financial and human resources efficiently and effectively to achieve the school’s educational goals and priorities in line with the school’s strategic plan and financial context.
• Ensure school buildings and facilities meet the needs of the pupils and employees and are of the highest standard of cleanliness and repair and compliant with health and safety regulations.
• Explore and develop additional sources of funding.

Stakeholders and the Local Community

• Secure the commitment of all parents and carers, especially hard-to reach parents, and the wider community to the vision and direction of the school.
• Act at all times as an ambassador for the school in a manner which upholds its values and ethos.
• Seek opportunities to communicate and enhance the value of the school to other sectors of the local community.
• Contribute to the development of the education system by sharing effective practice, working in partnership with other schools, especially feeder primary schools, and promoting innovative initiatives.

Accountability and Governance

• Work with the Central Trust and Local Governing Body to analyse and plan for the future needs and further development of the school within the local, national and international context.
• Translate the vision into a School Improvement Plan (or other relevant plans) with agreed, prioritised, objectives and operational plans which will promote and sustain school improvement within an agreed timeframe.
• Encourage a school ethos which enables everyone to work together, share knowledge and understanding, celebrate success and accept responsibility for outcomes.
• Present a coherent and accurate account of the school’s performance in a form appropriate to a range of audiences, including parents, the Trust, the local authority, the local community, Ofsted and others, to enable them to contribute effectively.

Teaching

• Teach as necessary and appropriate relative to the other duties of the post.

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