Headteacher - Yeovil, United Kingdom - CareTech Group

Description

Position: Headteacher

Location: Lufton, Yeovil

Hours: 40 hours per week, term time

Salary Details: Up to £55,000 per annum

We are looking to appoint an inspirational, ambitious Headteacher to join our dedicated and enthusiastic team at Orchard school. Are you passionate about making a difference at a senior level? Do you want to work in a forward-thinking school and be part of an innovative and successful Senior Leadership Team? Then we want to hear from you now.

Why work for us:

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to progress in your career.
• Training opportunities either face to face or online.
• Wellbeing- Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need.
• You will be a part of a dedicated team of professionals who will offer you clear guidance and mentor you in to this role.
• Supportive management and senior leads.
• We offer full induction, paid for DBS, friendly family atmosphere and the opportunity to progress with one of the UK`s biggest care providers.

Main Purpose:

To provide professional leadership for the school which secures its success and improvement, ensuring high quality education for all its pupils and good standards of learning and achievement.

Main tasks:

• Strategic direction and development of the school
• Provide inspiring and purposeful leadership for the staff and pupils.
• To work in partnership with the company, staff, stakeholders and parents generating the ethos and values which will underpin the school.
• To develop and embed a clear Vision & Values for the school, with accompanying aspirational aims and objectives for all learners, and to secure a thriving and positive school community.
• To continue to develop, implement and review a School Development Plan which will secure continuous school improvement.
• To continue to implement a robust self-evaluation process across the school, including the formulation of an effective self-evaluation document.
• To ensure school compliance with the Independent Schools Standards at all times.
• To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school and respond and report to the company as required.
• To ensure that management, finances, organisation and administration of the school supports its vision and aims.
• To ensure that school policies and practices take account of national, local and school requirements.
• To monitor, evaluate and review the impact of policies, priorities and targets of the school in practice, and take action if necessary.
• To ensure that all those involved in the school are committed to its aims, motivated to achieve them, and involved in meeting long, medium and short term objectives and targets which secure the educational success of the school.
• To engage with the external continuous improvement framework implemented by the National Lead as the primary model for internal support and challenge to the school.
• To engage with the corporate Care4 framework for sustainability, including the development and implementation of the school's One Planet Living sustainability action plan, and community engagement strategy, and ensuring sustainability is embedded across the school community.

Teaching and learning:

• Continue to maintain an environment that promotes and secures good, inclusive teaching, effective learning, high standards of achievement and good behaviour, all of which are appropriate to the individual needs of pupils.
• Determine, organise, implement and monitor the curriculum and its assessment and ensure that statutory requirements are met.
• Ensure that pupils develop study skills in order to learn more effectively and with increasing independence.
• Ensure that all pupils, on admission, are subject to rigorous, baseline assessment processes, which are used to inform individual learning plans and communicated to all staff members.
• Determine, organise and implement a policy for the personal, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils, as embedded within the curriculum.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning and standards of achievement of all pupils in the school through appropriate methods.

Determine and implement policies which promote:

• Equality and Diversity.
• Equality of access.
• Determine and implement positive strategies and programmes which ensure good pupil behaviour and discipline and give support and clear guidance on exclusions.
• Develop and maintain effective links with the community including business and industry, to extend the curriculum and enrich teaching and learning.
• Continue to maintain an effective partnership with parents, stakeholders, and the wider community to support and improve pupils' achievement and personal development.
• Promote extra curricular activities in accordance with the educational aims of the school.

Leading and managing staff:

• Plan, allocate, support and evaluate work undertaken by groups, teams and individuals, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities in a manner consistent with conditions of employment.
• Implement and sustain effective systems for the management of staff performance, incorporating performance management, supervision, annual appraisal and target setting.
• Promote and monitor the continuing professional development of staff, including the induction of new teachers.
• Ensure that professional duties are fulfilled, as specified in the Terms and Conditions of Service of teachers, including those of headteacher.
• Participate in the arrangements made in accordance with the regulations for performance management, and to participate in the identification of areas in which the Headteacher would benefit from further training and undergoing such training.
• Ensure that a deputy Headteacher or suitable person, assumes responsibility for the discharge of the headteacher's function at any time when absent from school.
• Continue the development of good working relationships with the senior leadership team of the company, staff, pupils, parents/carers, stakeholders and the community.
• Efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources
• Work with the company and colleagues to recruit and retain staff of the highest quality.
• Make arrangements for the security and effective supervision of the school buildings, their contents and the grounds.
• Set appropriate priorities for expenditure, allocation of funds and effective administration and control.
• Manage and organize the accommodation efficiently and effectively to ensure it meets the needs of the curriculum and health and safety regulations.
• Work with colleagues to deploy and develop all staff effectively in order to maintain and improve the quality of education provided.
• Manage, monitor and review the range, quality and use of all available resources in order to improve the quality of education, improve pupils' achievements, ensure efficiency and secure value for money.

The school:

Orchard School is a specialist independent school who supports young people who have suffered sexual trauma enabling them to realise their potential and through personalised support, achieve their goals. Our vision is that students will not only be supported academically but be supported to develop self-esteem, confidence, respect and consideration for others, to enable them to become effective and contributing citizens within the community.

The School is an independent, DfE registered co-educational day school, providing specialist education for up to 20 students, aged 11 – 18 years. The school is non-denominational and has an ethos of respect and tolerance for all cultural needs and religious beliefs.

Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks. Cambian is an equal opportunities employer.

Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern