Deputy Headteacher

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, energetic and driven leader to join our senior team. Burnside College has gone through a sustained period of improvement over recent years which is testament to the strong leadership in the school. This is an exciting opportunity for a current senior leader, with a strong track record of success, to join our experienced team and contribute to our vision of ensuring that Burnside College provides an outstanding quality of education.

The successful candidate will have a passion for teaching and learning and an excellent understanding of how to bring out the best in young people. We are seeking an individual who is highly committed to ensuring that all of our students experience the necessary quality of education and pastoral care in order to ensure they can go on to be successful in life.

What the Deputy Headteacher for Personal Development, Behaviour & Welfare will do

The senior leadership team at Burnside believe that effective senior leaders do the following:

• Use accurate and detailed school improvement planning, based on all available evidence sources and data, as the basis for decision making in order to continually raise standards and ensure consistency
• Promote the highest standards of teaching and learning and model best practice
• Manage the deployment of resources effectively, including staff time, and ensure that impact is always evaluated
• Lead the development of staff, always aiming to bring the best out of others, and develop leadership capacity
• Respond proactively to change, maintaining energy and positivity whilst leading others through times of challenge
• Champion the college ethos, aims and vision, both within the school and also outwardly to wider stakeholders and strategic partners

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for the safeguarding and child protection practices and procedures in school including the line management of other leaders (senior and middle) with these responsibilities
• Overall responsibility for the physical, social and emotional wellbeing of students
• Overall responsibility for the personal development of students including the line management of other leaders (senior and middle) with these responsibilities
• Overall responsibility for inclusion in the school, with specific responsibility for the achievement of those students with additional educational needs and for whom the school receives a pupil premium, this includes the line management of other leaders (senior and middle) with related responsibilities
• Overall responsibility for the effective liaison with external partners and organisations related to the inclusion of students e.g. SST / CAMHS / Moorbridge etc
• Overall responsibility for readiness for learning in the school (including attendance and punctuality) including the line management of other leaders (senior and middle) with related responsibilities. Working closely with other senior colleagues to promote positive learning behaviours in classrooms

In addition to performing the duties laid out in the teacher standards, as Deputy

Headteacher you will:

• Line manage the achievement leadership group, providing support and challenge
• Produce high quality self evaluation and school improvement planning i.e. manage the appropriate sections of self evaluation and development planning documentation
• Use high quality up to date data to inform all actions and strategic planning
• Lead by example
• Be highly visible to staff, students and parents
• Encourage reflection; promote open and honest dialogue around standards and outcomes
• Build trust and strong working relationships based on professionalism and mutual respect
• Remain positive and constructive at all times
• Undertake any additional reasonable responsibilities commensurate with the role at the request of the headteacher

If you would like an informal conversation about the role, or a tour of the school, please contact Daniel Jamieson, Headteacher, via Linda Heide (Headteacher’s PA) at l.heide@burnsidecollege.org.uk