Assistant Head with Safeguarding / Pastoral Responsibility
The Kingston Academy
Kingston upon Thames
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Payscale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 24 February 2019
Job overview
The Board of Trustees wish to appoint a talented and motivated Assistant Head Teacher to join the Senior Leadership Team of this fast growing, ambitious and Outstanding Academy from September 2019. As a rapidly developing school, The Kingston Academy will provide you with exceptional opportunities for career development and progression.
The successful candidate for this role will join us at an exciting stage in our development. We will have taken possession of our new modern extension with state-of-the-art STEM facilities to house our growing school. The addition of a new Year 7 intake in September 2019 will take total pupil numbers to over 900, whilst our original History Makers, entering in Year 11, will be in the final year of their KS4 studies. In addition, planning for the development of our Sixth Form will be in full flow.
TKA seeks an experienced leader with significant pastoral expertise for this pivotal Assistant Head Teacher role with Senior Leadership Team responsibility. The successful candidate will potentially take the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead with lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection at The Kingston Academy. DSL and other whole school responsibility will depend on existing experience of candidate.
We are looking for a highly experienced teaching professional with a minimum of five years at middle leadership level and considerable pastoral focused experience giving them the knowledge and skills to carry out the DSL role.
We are not specifying a subject focus, since there is a degree of flexibility over the curriculum specialism of the successful candidate for this role.
Assessment Process
Our selection procedure will aim to identify with rigour whether the candidate fulfils the requirements of the post and will include the consideration of the candidate’s suitability to work with children and young people. The process will include:
- Teaching an observed lesson to a full class of pupils;
- Meeting with a panel of our pupils for informal question and answer session;
- Desktop exercise;
- Panel Interview with Deputy Head Teacher, Head Teacher, Chair of the Trust and one additional Trust Board member, in the context of which candidates will be required to deliver a presentation on a pre-specified topic.
We look forward to receiving your application.
You are encouraged to visit the school prior to submitting your application. Our Head Teacher will be happy to meet with you to talk about the school and its ethos and more specifically about this important leadership role. Please contact Justine Free on 0208 465 6208 in order to arrange this. Your application will not be disadvantaged in any sense if you are unable to visit.
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About The Kingston Academy
The Kingston Academy is an ambitious and outstanding new mixed, mainstream secondary school located in a newly renovated traditional school building and significant, state-of-the-art new extension in Kingston upon Thames, near to the River Thames.
The Kingston Academy was established in 2015 by the Kingston Educational Trust, a partnership between Kingston University, Kingston College and the Royal Borough of Kingston. The school initially opened with a single cohort of Year 7 pupils and has grown every year with an additional year group. It will eventually comprise all year groups including a Sixth Form in 2021-22.
The school's first full Ofsted inspection took place in May 2018 and the resulting report declared the school to be outstanding in all categories with no areas identified as needing improvement.
The announcement of the new cohort for September 2019 revealed the school to be heavily oversubscribed, drawing from a catchment area of less than 1km from the school.
Headteacher
Ms. Sophie Cavanagh
Values and vision
The Kingston Academy has an ethos of inclusion, where all are welcomed and every individual is valued for who they are and what they can bring to the school. The focus on learning and communication is powered by a STEM-focused curriculum (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
The secondary school helps to build a strong sense of identity, encouraging students to be global citizens and to value their place in the wider world. Teachers are offered continuing professional development, which allows them to keep up with new technologies and best practices.
'Teaching successfully challenges all groups of pupils to aim high and achieve their best.' Ofsted, June 2018
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