Deputy Headteacher
Tower Hill School
Witney, Oxfordshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- £45,213 - £49,937
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2018 is preferrable
- Apply by:
- 15 October 2018
Job overview
Deputy Headteacher
Tower Hill School within The River Learning Trust, OX28 6NB
L6 to L10 full time, permanent
£45,213 - £49,937
Start date: January (preferred), April or September 2019
Do you have a passion for getting the best out of every child? Would you like to lead improvements in this rewarding environment?
Tower Hill School is an improving school with a strong sense of purpose and community within our area of Witney, and has excellent relationships with families and pupils. Our school motto is “Growing Together” and our school values are very important to us. We pride ourselves on being unique (our school library is a converted double decker bus, we run our Forest school in the Dell, our own little piece of wilderness and we have school chicken!) Things like this help inspire staff at the school to be highly motivated and keen to make a difference to the lives of our children
The Headteacher and governors are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Deputy Headteacher as a new post. The job description for the post is currently generic as we are keen to tailor the role to the expertise and experience of the successful candidate. There will be a teaching commitment for part of the week. We look forward to hearing about what strengths you could bring to the role.
Our children say they would like a teacher who:
· Is confident
· Respects them
· Listens to their ideas
· Is creative
· Is honest
· Encourages and supports them
· Is caring
· Is positive
· Who has a sense of humour
Our children say they like the school because:
· We are active and sporty
· We have a great playground
· We have our own Forest School
· We have great art lessons
· We are cared for and looked after
· Our lessons are fun
The school is part of the River Learning Trust whose principles are a commitment to excellence, everyone learning and respectful relationships. The trust offers excellent opportunities for career progression and support. There is something special about people who work at RLT:
· They care passionately about what they do
· They strive to deliver excellence
· They enjoy coming to work and making a difference to the lives of children and young people
Find out more about the River Learning Trust at https://riverlearningtrust.org/
How to apply / closing date / where to find further details
Online applications through TES
Closing date: 15th October 9am
Interview Date: 18th October
For more information contact the School Business Manager Kate Walsh at sbm@towerhillschool.co.uk
Tower Hill School and The River Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff are expected to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
Attached documents
About Tower Hill School
Welcome to Tower Hill School. We are a Good-rated primary school in the Oxfordshire market town of Witney. We are a single-form-entry school, set in beautiful grounds, with a very large playing field. We have our own library bus and a dell – an outdoor classroom area that we use for outdoor learning and Forest School.
We pride ourselves in being a happy, safe, caring and progressive school, where staff and families work together to nurture self-belief and inspire a love for learning. We are a place where every child will reach their own unique potential through high expectations and where all of our children, families and staff are valued, respected and supported. Tower Hill is a place where the educational, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of every child will be met.
Within a warm, nurturing environment, we engage our children with high-quality teaching, high-quality learning and high expectations in everything we do.
Working in close partnership with parents, the whole school community strives to give our children the best possible start in life, so that their true and full potential can be reached.
Working for us
You’ll be joining an extremely friendly, well-motivated and enthusiastic staff determined to make our school exceptional.
We can offer you:
- A positive staff culture with extremely high expectations of work and behaviour
- Well-behaved children
- A leadership team that views professional development as a priority
- A friendly and well-motivated staff and an inclusive community in which you can flourish
- The opportunity to continue your career working alongside fabulous teachers and teaching assistants.
About River Learning Trust
Tower Hill School is a member of River Learning Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust responsible for around 30 schools and a school-centred initial teacher training (SCITT) provider within Oxfordshire and Swindon. We’re a Trust committed to the professional learning and development of staff with high-quality training in-school and through the Oxfordshire Teaching Schools Alliance.
As a school-led organisation, we are always keen to recruit and train the very best individuals who we hope will go on to become excellent teachers in our partnership of schools. We operate under the title, Oxfordshire Teacher Training and all the details of our programmes can be found at http://www.oxfordshireteachertraining.co.uk.
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