Deputy Headteacher (Learning and Achievement)
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
Bristol, City of
- Expired
- Salary:
- L22 - L26
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2019
- Apply by:
- 18 March 2019
Job overview
The Role
Are you our new Deputy Headteacher? This key post is available from 1 September 2019. The role in charge of learning and achievement will make a major contribution to our continued success as an outstanding school. We are advertising because of the retirement of the current post holder.
The School
We are a successful and heavily oversubscribed 11-18 co-educational, Church of England, comprehensive school of over 1700 students, serving families from the whole of greater Bristol and beyond. We are located at the heart of the city and have a diverse student community with considerable parental support. Our diversity is a strength and something we celebrate. The Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre currently houses more than 600 students taken from our own school and from many other schools across the City.
The School is proud of its academic record, and 82% of grades were at grade 4 (equivalent to a C) or above this summer. 77% achieved a 4 or above in English and Maths. Progress 8 is 0.37. Sixth Form results are also high with a 99% pass rate and 83% at grade C or above (up from 81%). 24% got A* and A grades. Most Sixth Form students continue on to Higher Education, including 5 taking up Oxbridge places this year.
Inspection Reports
The School was judged in January 2012 and again in April 2015 to be outstanding by Ofsted, and outstanding in our church school (SIAMS) inspection, in each and every category. Ofsted judged Leadership and Management, Behaviour and Safety of Pupils, Quality of Teaching, Achievement of Pupils, and Sixth Form Provision, all as Outstanding.
What We're Looking For
This is a positive time to join the School and take up the post as it offers a good balance of established good practice to build on, a supportive, friendly and effective team and interesting new challenges to address. It will prove an ideal post for a proactive, intelligent, hardworking team player with a passion to ensure that students from every background achieve their very best and that pedagogy matches our understanding of our Christian mission.
The role will provide plenty of opportunities for personal development and responsibility and could be an ideal step towards headship.
There are two important aspects to this Deputy Headteacher role.
- The post holder will ensure we maximise student achievement through top quality teaching and learning.
- The post holder will also have responsibility for representing the Headteacher at key meetings and supporting the Deputy Headteacher (Behaviour for Learning) when the Headteacher is off site.
I entrust some of the Headteacher level meetings and processes of a large school to the current post holder to enable me to fulfil my strategic leadership role and my outreach work as a National Leader of Education (NLE). I am looking for someone I can trust, coach, and develop into this level of responsibility.
The post holder will line manage the Heads of Faculty and subject leaders and will be the link SLT to key departments that need additional support.
The other Deputy Head has oversight of behaviour for learning and the daily smooth running of the site and the post holder will liaise with him concerning issues that arise when the Headteacher is out of school. The Headteacher and two deputies agree who is in charge of the school site and always plan ahead to ensure good SLT coverage.
The post is well supported by an effective administrator. The whole of the School Leadership Team (SLT) are very supportive of the role of the Deputy Headteacher in leading learning and achievement. The post holder chairs the ‘Empowered Learning Group’ of the SLT which comprises the Assistant Head (Achievement Interventions), Assistant Head (Sixth Form) and the Assistant Head (Teaching School). As a team they drive school improvement related to the quality of teaching, learning, assessment and achievement.
Find out more about the School by visiting our website www.smrt.bristol.sch.uk.
Why Work for Us
- Free parking on site (some restrictions apply)
- Central location (a 10 minute walk from Temple Meads station) with excellent transport links to all parts of the city and beyond
- Friendly community
- On site swimming pool
Application Process
In addition to completing the application form and an experience sheet you should, on a separate document of no more than one side of A4 describe ‘How I will ensure the role of Deputy Headteacher (Learning and Achievement) actively contributes to the Christian distinctiveness of the school’.
The closing date for receipt of application forms by my PA is Monday 18 March 2019 (by 10am). When providing details of your referees you must include their e-mail address. Please return your application (an Experience Sheet and your additional A4 sheet) by email direct to jobs@smrt.bristol.sch.uk.
Interviews will be scheduled during week commencing Monday 1 April (likely to be Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 April). We do not acknowledge postal applications. If you have not heard from us by the end of April, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Due to the large number of applications we receive for most of our posts we are unable to provide feedback on unsuccessful applications. We may call for references as part of our shortlisting process.
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About St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School and the Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre (SMRT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and so safeguarding checks will be undertaken as part of the recruitment and selection process. It is an offence to apply for this role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. You can find a copy of our Safeguarding Policy on our website.
Mr Planter took up the Headship in September 2022 following successful headship and executive headteacher experiences in three schools. For him, the post of Headteacher remains an incredibly rewarding one. As we emerge from the greatest social and educational disruption in our lifetime there is a clear mandate and appetite to consider our practice collectively to ensure we provide the highest quality education for all our students.
SMRT is a successful and heavily oversubscribed 11-18 co-educational, Church of England, comprehensive school of over 1750 students, serving families from the whole of greater Bristol and beyond. We are located at the heart of the city and have a diverse student community with considerable parental support. Our diversity is a strength and something we celebrate. The Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre currently houses approximately 700 students from our own school and from many other schools across the City.
Our Christian ethos is at the centre of our distinctiveness and success. We believe that daily worship helps us get our priorities right. The School has a clearly identified set of values that are reflected in our pastoral and curriculum practice. The School is committed to developing students as whole people and lifelong learners. To facilitate this SMRT has developed the Alive model, which seeks to develop competencies, values, and skills in our students to support their development as ‘fully alive’ learners. The role of the tutor is key, and teachers are expected to be tutors.
At SMRT we believe that each member of our School community is created by God and our aim is to achieve our full potential (being fully alive). All we do is rooted in this hope of who we are as people and who we can become. We are particularly inspired by Jesus’ statement ‘I have come that you might have life and life in all its fullness’ (John 10 v10) and Irenaeus’ ‘the glory of God is a human being fully alive’. This is an exciting time to join SMRT as we work with renewed focus and energy to fulfil our core purpose enabling our students “to develop the skills, knowledge and Alive qualities so that all our students can make their unique contribution to the world.”
We are passionate about providing opportunity for all staff to develop. Staff are encouraged to develop leadership roles, including working with, and helping to improve, other local schools. All leaders contribute extremely well to improving teaching and learning. SMRT invests heavily and productively in ensuring that staff and leaders have every opportunity to develop their expertise for the benefit of students. Professional development for staff is extremely well planned and implemented; it is linked closely to teachers’ targets for improvement.
SMRT was judged in April 2015 to be outstanding by Ofsted in each and every category. We were also judged outstanding in our last church school (SIAMS) inspection in March 2017. Despite this there is absolutely no sense of complacency. We are a forward-looking school with a relentless focus on providing the absolute best provision so that no child is left behind.
Ofsted remarked that “Church school status makes an important and distinctive contribution to the school’s exceptionally positive values and beliefs. Leaders and the highly effective governing body ensure that students’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development are given the highest possible priority.” “The promotion of students’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural education is extremely impressive and contributes enormously to the welcoming ethos of the school. Equality of opportunity is vigorously promoted; discrimination in any form is not tolerated. Students are highly reflective about matters of faith and personal responsibility; their social awareness is remarkably perceptive.”
SMRT was fortunate to be part of ‘Building Schools for the Future’ Wave 4 and we moved into a significant new block in early November 2010. This houses Music, Computer Science, Design Technology, Science, Art, English, Maths, Learning Resource Centre, PE, and staff facilities. In addition we have a sports hall, as well as a gym and a swimming pool. Humanities and Languages are housed in a refurbished 1980s building which is also the base for Year 7 students. We also have a large Sixth Form block.
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