Assistant Headteacher
About This Role
We are looking for a leader to join our team to ensure our school's strategic vision is enacted consistently across all classrooms and corridors. This is a crucial, high-impact role focused on the lived reality of our school culture. This role is vital in providing total clarity and a single-point accountability for reinforcing our daily habits and shared norms, bridging between the strategic and operational leadership of the school. The leader will be an exceptional classroom teacher; modeling high competency of the teacher standards.
The Assistant Headteacher will be a guardian of the school’s "Daily Habits." They will ensure that the school is a safe, calm, and inclusive environment where every pupil, regardless of background, can thrive.
They will move the school’s "shared language" into "observable actions" through coaching, vigilance, and clear systems.
Under the direction of the headteacher, to ensure that the school fulfils its aims for excellence in teaching & learning & enables all pupils to achieve:
- to work alongside the headteacher to continue to develop a culture where individuals feel valued & personal development is encouraged
- to work alongside the headteacher to achieve the aims & objectives set out in the school’s development plans & the school’s vision
- to have high expectations of themselves & work with the headteacher to ensure that staff & pupils continually seek to improve & have high expectations of themselves & others
- to keep governors informed about the development of key areas & encourage their involvement so that they can effectively evaluate progress against development plans
The assistant headteacher will also be expected to fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher, as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD).
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