Headteacher

Tes is supporting the appointment of a Headteacher to join a School based in Tower Hamlets.

Salary: Up to £90,000 per annum dependent on experience and qualifications

Hours: 38.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only

September 2024 start!

Are you an innovative Headteacher/Senior Leader committed to improving the lives of pupils and young people with a primary diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Continuum and additional complex needs.

This is an excellent opportunity for an inspiring Headteacher to join their fantastic team at the School.

As Headteacher, you will continue their vision and ethos of ‘Thinking and Learning Differently’ and promote a relentless focus on high quality, creative learning, delivering their pupil's educational needs, and maximising pupils’ achievement and ability to develop your strategic thinking in response to their complex.

About the role

You will exercise dynamic leadership of the school and ensure the full development of the vision for the service, its promotion, and continuous improvement. You will create and maintain outstanding outcomes in the education of their students.

You will continue to drive their shared vision and strategic plan through inspirational leadership and motivates pupils, staff, and everyone within their school community and beyond. Your leadership should express core educational values and moral purpose and include stakeholders’ values and beliefs. The strategic planning process is critical to sustaining school improvement and ensuring that the school moves forward for the benefit of its pupils. 

You will collaborate with the school's senior leadership team and the Regional Director to provide an inclusive approach to outstanding educational and therapeutic provision which is well established in the school.

You will have overall responsibility for the strategic leadership of the school whilst maintaining ongoing communication with schools within the London Region to ensure that the provision and standards are consistently high across the schools.

Essential:

• Relevant experience in the specialist area of the service, i.e. relevant experience working with young people/young adults with autistic spectrum disorders and/or challenging behaviour
• Relevant experience as a Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher in a Complex Special Needs School.                       
• Experience with Ofsted procedures/inspections and working with School Improvement Partners.                              
• Manage budgets effectively and ensure cost efficiency and financial compliance.                                        
• Relevant Teaching Qualification              

Please see the job description for more details and information. 

About the school

At the School, they provide specialist education for up to 70 pupils aged between 5 and 16. Their pupils are taught in smaller class sizes and all work towards various accreditations depending on their needs and ability.

Why join?

Benefits

Your health and well-being are important to them, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions.
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through their Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

And that’s not all; they place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in their services at the heart of everything they do, so you’ll wake every day knowing that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

All applicants need to have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for the role.

By applying to this job advertisement, you are providing consent for the Tes Recruitment team to propose and discuss your application with the employer.

Tes Recruitment Services (UK) represent Schools and Academies across the globe, supporting them to secure a great teacher/leader for every role. 

To learn more about this role please email managedrecruit@tes.com for an information pack that includes school name, role specifics and context. 

Please include REF: LC2052371 in the email subject line. Please note that we are unable to accept CVs sent to us via email so please use the stated application route.