Assistant Headteacher - Personal Development
Southlands High School
Chorley, Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- L10 - L14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 25 April 2019
Job overview
Southlands High School are looking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher - Personal Development, commencing September 2019.
Thank you for your interest in applying for the post of Assistant Headteacher at Southlands High School. I have been Headteacher of Southlands High School since June 2017. Since then the school has been on a transformational journey. With two years of improvement completed I am looking for two Assistant Headteachers to join the Senior Leadership Team of Southlands High School for the next very challenging and very exciting phase of school improvement. I am clear about the size of the journey we have ahead of us but also encouraged at the prospect of appointing two inspirational people to join us to make the vision become the lived experience each and every day for our students. I am seeking two determined Assistant Headteachers to join the totally focused and committed Senior Leadership Team of myself, two Deputy Headteachers and our School Business Manager to add great value, expertise and passion for school improvement. A real completer-finisher!
Southlands High School is a thriving, expanding, forward thinking and inclusive 11-16 school in Chorley, Lancashire. The school has 827 on roll with projections of 1100 on roll by 2020. It has always had a strong ethos, where ‘people matter’ and we work with our community for the benefit of our students. The Southlands ‘Spirit for Success’ is palpable.
Southlands High School forms part of the Mosaic Academy Trust (MAT) with Standish Community High School, in which Standish are the lead partner. Over the past two years, Southlands has been working very closely with Standish to access resources and support for all aspects of school life, especially in Teaching, Learning and Assessment and Leadership and Management at all levels. There is a genuine collaborative relationship between the schools. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to be involved in working collaboratively and joining a school in a relatively newly formed MAT. We can offer you excellent professional development, a supportive governing board and Board of Trustees.
After improved results in 2017 and 2018, we are now seeking to appoint two Assistant Headteachers who are willing to work tirelessly to lead on key priorities and fundamental changes that are still required to move the school to securely good, through rapid improvement. It is heartening to know that Southlands High School’s improved results in 2017 and 2018 were against the backdrop of the national change along with tougher assessments in English and mathematics.
These posts offer a new and rousing opportunity for a current Assistant Headteacher or an aspiring Middle Leader who is ready to make the decisive step into Senior Leadership. You will need proven experience, knowledge and a strategic vision to lead on one of the two areas on offer. Central to all of the work is that you must be able to ensure that students will maximise their potential.
We are looking for leaders with a passionate belief that all students can achieve regardless of their background or starting points and can go on to make a valued contribution to their community. No student will be left behind!
I welcome your application and look forward to meeting short listed candidates.
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About Southlands High School
Southlands High School is an improving school. Our motto ‘Endeavour for Excellence’ demonstrates that we expect all stakeholders, staff and students to drive for the highest standards in everything they do. Southlands High School is striving to be ‘Better’ than ever before as a successful and inclusive school that works in close partnership with families and the community to achieve the best for our young people.
In December 2017, we were designated as a converter academy within the Mosaic Academy Trust with Standish High School and Golborne Primary School and look forward to going from strength to strength in our partnership. The Mosaic Academy Trust as an organisation seeks to value each and every member of the community and to become a family of schools that will welcome other schools and be a Trust whose chief aim is to become stronger as a whole than by the sum of its parts. We seek for our students to be Successful Learners, Confident Individuals and Responsible Citizens. The Trust has a Trade Union Recognition Agreement in place.
From our most recent inspection, in February 2024, the report highlights that we are highly ambitious for our pupils to achieve. We strive to meet the needs of the individual child so that they feel safe, secure and happy and enjoy their time at Southlands. We also aim to provide the highest standards of teaching and learning so that students are able to progress and fulfil their potential. We believe that every child should be given opportunities to develop their leadership skills as part of their growth and development in order to prepare them for adult life. Many of our students go on to be very successful in all aspects of life with a number attending some of the leading universities in the country. We are committed in our drive for academic excellence whilst offering a wide range of extra-curricular activities and opportunities so that our students can achieve educational success and develop fully as individuals.
We recognise that all students have the right to the highest quality education that will equip them with the qualifications they need to progress to college, university or their chosen career. Every decision we take to create our successful school comes from a firmly held staff belief that we can always strive to be ‘better’ than before.
At Southlands we are very proud of our caring school community and place great emphasis on high standards of behaviour and respect for all through our Southlands Standard.
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