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Assistant Headteacher – English & a whole school responsibility

Assistant Headteacher – English & a whole school responsibility

Abbey College, Ramsey

Cambridgeshire

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Full Time, Permanent
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1 December 2022

Job overview

Abbey College

 Responsibilities:

The Senior Leadership Team (SLT) has responsibility for all aspects of leading the College development on a day-to-day basis. The following should be used as a guide, as the specific individual whole school responsibilities of each Senior Leader will be agreed annually with the Headteacher.

To achieve the KPIs for the English department.

To sustain the aims and objectives of the College and establish the policies through which they will be achieved.

To make sure that every child is known, valued and supported to achieve their full potential, ensuring excellent planning and teaching in all English classrooms, an appropriate curriculum for all and appropriate support is given where needed.

To develop, implement and maintain the ethos of the College, leading by example at all times.

To support the development of staff through skilled human resource management.

To support the development of students through outstanding teaching and skilled behaviour management techniques.

To form and maintain good relationships with all stakeholders to support College improvement

To form and maintain good relationships with all stakeholders to support College improvement

Main Duties /Responsibilities

The Senior Leadership Team (SLT) has responsibility for all aspects of leading the College development on a day-today basis. The following should be used as a guide, as the specific individual whole school responsibilities of each.

Senior Leader will be agreed annually with the Headteacher.

To achieve the KPIs for the English department.

To sustain the aims and objectives of the College and establish the policies through which they will be achieved.

To make sure that every child is known, valued and supported to achieve their full potential, ensuring excellent.

Planning and teaching in all English classrooms, an appropriate curriculum for all and appropriate support is given where needed.

To develop, implement and maintain the ethos of the College, leading by example at all times.

To support the development of staff through skilled human resource management.

To support the development of students through outstanding teaching and skilled behaviour management techniques.

Domain One

Excellent Assistant Headteachers: qualities and knowledge

The Assistant Headteacher will:

Hold and articulate clear values and moral purpose, focused on providing a world-class education for the pupils they serve.

Demonstrate optimistic personal behaviour, positive relationships and attitudes towards their pupils and staff, and towards parents, governors and members of the local community.

Lead by example - with integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity - drawing on their own scholarship, expertise and skills, and that of those around them.

Sustain wide, current knowledge and understanding of education and school systems locally, nationally and globally, and pursue continuous professional development.

Work with political and financial astuteness, within a clear set of principles centred on the school’s vision, ably translating local and national policy into the school’s context.

Communicate compellingly the school’s vision and drive the strategic leadership, empowering all pupils and staff to excel.

Domain Two

Excellent Assistant Headteachers: pupils and staff

The Assistant Headteacher will:

Demand ambitious standards for all pupils, overcoming disadvantage and advancing equality, instilling a strong sense of accountability in staff for the impact of their work on pupils’ outcomes.

Secure excellent teaching through an analytical understanding of how pupils learn and of the core features of successful classroom practice and curriculum design, leading to rich curriculum opportunities and pupils’ well-being.

Establish an educational culture of ‘open classrooms’ as a basis for sharing best practice within and between schools, drawing on and conducting relevant research and robust data analysis.

Create an ethos within which all staff are motivated and supported to develop their own skills and subject knowledge, and to support each other.

Identify emerging talents, coaching current and aspiring leaders in a climate where excellence is the standard, leading to clear succession planning.

Hold all staff to account for their professional conduct and practice.

Domain Three

Excellent Assistant Headteachers: systems and process

The Assistant Headteacher will support the Headteacher to:

Ensure that the school’s systems, organisation and processes are well considered, efficient and fit for purpose, upholding the principles of transparency, integrity and probity.

Provide a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all pupils and staff, focused on safeguarding pupils and developing their exemplary behaviour in school and in the wider society.

Establish rigorous, fair and transparent systems and measures for managing the performance of all staff, addressing any under-performance, supporting staff to improve and valuing excellent practice.

Welcome strong governance and actively support the governing board to understand its role and deliver its functions effectively – in particular its functions to set school strategy and hold the headteacher to account for pupil, staff and financial performance.

Exercise strategic, curriculum-led financial planning to ensure the equitable deployment of budgets and resources, in the best interests of pupils’ achievements and the school’s sustainability.

Distribute leadership throughout the organisation, forging teams of colleagues who have distinct roles and responsibilities and hold each other to account for their decision making.

Domain Four

Excellent Assistant Headteachers: the self-improving school system.

The Assistant Headteacher will support the Headteacher to:

Create outward-facing schools which work with other schools and organisations - in a climate of mutual challenge - to champion best practice and secure excellent achievements for all pupils.

Develop effective relationships with fellow professionals and colleagues in other public services to improve academic and social outcomes for all pupils.

Challenge educational orthodoxies in the best interests of achieving excellence, harnessing the findings of well evidenced research to frame self-regulating and self-improving schools.

Shape the current and future quality of the teaching profession through high quality training and sustained professional development for all staff.

Model entrepreneurial and innovative approaches to school improvement, leadership and governance, confident of the vital contribution of internal and external accountability.

Inspire and influence others - within and beyond schools - to believe in the fundamental importance of education in young people’s lives and to promote the value of education.

Safeguarding

To have the ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.

Appreciate the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people whatever their life circumstances.

To have a good understanding of the safeguarding agenda and can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment.

The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice and information in accurate spoken English is essential for the post. 


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About Abbey College, Ramsey

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+44 1487 812352

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 Abbey College, Ramsey is located in a small market town, almost half way between Huntingdon and Peterborough and within easy reach of Cambridge and London. The College is set within extensive, historic and beautiful grounds close to the Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket.    The College is a large 11-18 school with a catchment which extends over a wide rural area. 

There are approximately 1090 students on role, including a sixth form of 120. We currently have around 70 members of teaching staff with an additional support team of over 75 members of staff.   

We have high aspirations as a College as our 2016 results showed. Our A level and BTEC results placed us the sixth best in Cambridgeshire, outdoing many private schools, and our GCSE results were our highest ever, with a progress 8 figure of 0.21. We are also oversubscribed for the second year in a row this year by over 40% and our attendance is 2% higher than the national averages.   

Our College ethos is to ‘Aspire and Challenge’, which means that the College strives to provide strong equal learning opportunities within a broad and balanced curriculum for all students regardless of ability, background or culture. Our values include Being polite, being Equipped for learning, Sticking to and completing the most challenging of tasks and being Tolerant, which we remember as BEST. Our motto is to: ‘challenge mind-sets and raising aspirations’. 

At Abbey College we see staff well-being as a top priority and we are committed to ensuring our staff are always developing and growing. We have a full and extensive programme of CPD activities throughout the year and regularly share good practice. We have also introduced an employee of the month scheme to recognise members of staff who go above and beyond.   

For more information about the day to day life and the successes happening at the College, visit our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/RamseyAbbeyCollege. Or alternatively, if you would like to visit the College please ring the office on 01487 812352 to arrange a convenient time.                 

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