Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion
Guildford County School
Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- L12 - L16
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st January 2025
- Apply by:
- 13 May 2024
Job overview
“The leadership of teaching is very well developed so that staff are well supported to improve their practice. As a result, staff blossom, including those new to the profession”
“OUTSTANDING in all areas” – Ofsted 2017 and 2023
Join Guildford County School in our exciting journey as we recruit to the new role of Assistant Headteacher: Inclusion, a post with responsibility for leading our new ASD unit and overseeing our vulnerable learners provision (SEND, PP, (P)LAC). As a key member of our Leadership Team, you will have significant and strategic influence right from the set-up phase of our new venture to support ASD learners.
Launching our ASD unit in September 2025, the school will provide a unique education for up to five students per year group, catering to their complex needs in a specially designed and self-contained environment, with access to the main school when appropriate. As Assistant Headteacher, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction and success of this important initiative.
Whilst the specific nature of this vacancy relates to Inclusion and SEND, at Guildford County School we are committed to ensuring the full and rounded development of our senior leaders and will ensure that the successful candidate is exposed to a raft of experience that will allow professional growth and deep levels of satisfaction in the role. For your interest, we currently have four Assistant Headteachers – AHT Learning and Teaching; AHT Progress and Logistics; AHT Director of Sixth Form and AHT Digital Transformation.
Strong academic results, great teamwork and a drive for excellence set this school apart. Our students and staff benefit from exceptional community links and are widely praised for their passion and dedication.
The successful applicant will have strong pedagogical and andragogical knowledge and be a reflective practitioner who embraces emerging technologies, as well as the enthusiasm to contribute to all other aspects of school life.
In return, Guildford County School can offer you:
- Use of Gym facilities;
- Cycle to Work scheme;
- Access to Childcare Vouchers;
- Attractive pension;
- Free onsite parking that is close to the thriving town centre of Guildford;
- Supportive and collegiate working environment.
For further information or to download an application form, please click the link below. At the same link, we also warmly encourage you to watch our short recruitment film ‘Join The Team’ to get a sense of what it is like to work at our school – https://www.guildfordcounty.co.uk/643/current-vacancies. You may also wish to contact our HR officer, Sarah Mackenzie to find out more or to arrange a visit to the school (01483 504089 or email smackenzie@guildfordcounty.co.uk).
Closing date: 9am, Monday 13th May 2024
Interviews: Friday, 17th May 2024
Applications may be considered upon receipt; we reserve the right to interview/appoint prior to the closing date.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this obligation. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure by the DBS.
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About Guildford County School
At Guildford County School, we have a purpose. We are entrusted to provide our students with the best education in the country, focused on outcomes of every description.
We do this through focussing on our three core values. We expect all members of our community to demonstrate a generosity of spirit, to be creative in all of their endeavours and to celebrate success in all of its forms.
We are a high achieving, oversubscribed and non-selective mixed state secondary school in Surrey. Music and sport, as well as a number of other co-curricular activities, sit alongside our established, yet progressive, academic curriculum. Students, staff and other stakeholders love our school. An academy converter, we are proud members of the Learning Partners Academy Trust and work tirelessly to serve our local community.
As a School founded in 1905 we have deep-rooted values and traditions which have resulted in consistent academic success and we have held a strong place within the Guildford Educational establishment for over 100 years. These successes have been built on a clear vision and a strong set of core values.
Guildford County School values and promotes excellence and recognises different kinds of success. We appreciate individual difference, foster respect, promote tolerance and the acceptance of others, encourage warm relationships and provide a place for all. Through providing opportunities for everyone to give and achieve we demonstrate our integrity, fairness and an ethical way of working. We are creative, open to innovation and initiative, whilst remaining respectful of our traditions. We aim to affirm in everyone a sense of identity, confidence and community.
Our school has a strong reputation for academic success, developed within a caring and family atmosphere. We are proud of our consistently high examination results and the culture of ‘Better Never Stops’ that permeates throughout County. Our dedicated staff work in partnership with students, creating an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust, which helps students to achieve their full potential. We provide outstanding and varied learning experiences and the school is renowned for its friendliness and student support. We operate a mantra of ‘kindness, but with a bottom line’.
As a Specialist Music college, we have a national reputation for excellence in this curriculum area. Music inspires our students, encourages self-esteem, and helps them to work in teams and respect their peers. We take Music beyond the classroom to entertain and support the community and this highlights our drive for excellence in all aspects of school life.
Guildford County School educates the whole child and we have a wide-ranging programme of co-curricular activities that sit very much alongside our traditional class-based provision. We are delighted that our students grow into thriving, confident and resilient young people, well equipped for the challenges and opportunities that they will face when they leave us and enter honourable adulthood.
At Guildford County School, we aspire to be leaders in secondary education. A school where children thrive as truly resilient learners, are healthy, happy and successful and where we all believe that being ‘Better Never Stops’.
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